NEW York City bred singer guitarist, banjo-picker and whiskey drinker, who sings of bar stools, trains and hobos will be bringing his unique music to Cleere’s Bar on Saturday.      Urban cowboy Jack Grace provides western-tinged sounds with a gritty edge. Accom panied by a band including wife Daria on Bass and featuring critically acclaimed guest banjo player Tom Hanaway, The Jack Grace Band hopes to finish their first Irish tour on a high note at the celebrated Kilkenney venue.      With three laudable albums under their belt, they are a formidable live act. They’ve opened for Merle Haggard, Doc Watson, Junior Brown, Dan Hicks , and even the Oak Ridge Boys among others. Their Irish stint begn at the Dunmore East Blugrass Festival and ends in Cleere’s.      Kilkenney has had its attraction for the song-writer since an earlier visit in 2006, when he noted a highly informed preoccupation with music on the part of the locals.      In any case, The Jack Grace Band are sure not to disappoint the audience with their bracing delivery of honky tonk/ bossa / blues / country fusion that regularly leaves listeners picking away the sediments of sound, now recalling Tom Waits, now Mississippi John Hurt, almost tasting the whiskey behind each number.      There is an evident eclecticism in the band. Daria Grace has impeccable NYC credentials with stints in both God is My Co-Pilot and the Moonlighters , while other members and regular guests have worked with acts ranging from Graham Parker and the Silos, to Levon Helm and They Might Be Giants.      Nevertheless, don’t let this impressive mised bag fool you, there’s a dominant strain in the Jack Grace Band’s music, as authoritatively summed up by none other than the New York Times, “Make no mistake: Jack Grace is an old-fashioned country musician.”      For more see: www.jackgrace.com and www.myspace.com/jackgraceband. Or better still, hear the group live this weekend.