Ann Savoy and Her Sleepless Knights, If Dreams Come True (Memphis International Records)

If Dreams Come True presents Ann Savoy at her most relaxed and, consequently, most simply enjoyable. She isn’t flying a flag for Cajun music, nor is she holding the popular song up as art as she and Linda Ronstadt did on last year’s Adieu False Heart. This time out, she’s a chanteuse singing Parisian hot jazz, backed by most of the Red Stick Ramblers, Tom Mitchell on lead guitar, son Wilson Savoy on piano, with the album produced by son Joel Savoy. There’s no sense that there’s an agenda beyond simply playing some songs she likes, and if finds anything particularly artful in the lyrics to songs such as “Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered” and “Ces Petite Choses” (“These Foolish Things”), her vocals never show a hint of stressing to make sure listeners hear it. If anything, the album leans away from any claims of importance. More than anything else, Savoy sounds like she’s enjoying inhabiting the songs, particularly the flirt in “If You Don’t I Know Who Will,” and when she sings “Getting Some Fun Out of Life,” it sounds like she’s succeeding. As much as I admire Adieu False Heart, I know I’ll return to the good-natured swing of If Dreams Come True more often.