Jakob Dylan
Former lead singer and Grammy-winning songwriter with The Wallflowers, Jakob (son of Bob) has released two successful solo albums, including Women and Country (produced by the legendary T Bone Burnett) this spring – which is “full of emotive tunes that walk a balance between folk and pop…tackling a conflicted spirituality, poverty, love and the profane shortcomings of life in back-country America” (PopMatters).
Despite the obvious potential for comparisons with his father, Jakob has always managed to justify himself as a musician in his own right. His band, The Wallflowers rose to fame in 1996, with album Bringing Down the Horse, which sold over 6 million copies worldwide, and won two Grammy Awards, including Best Rock Song for the single ‘One Headlight’.
Following a number of successful follow-up albums, including Red Letter Days (2001), Jakob eventually signed a solo deal with Columbia Records, releasing his first solo album Seeing Things (2008), which The Times described as “juxtaposing relaxed arrangements with reassuringly bleak moral certainties.” Rooted in a more acoustic country style than the rock-orientated music of The Wallflowers, Jakob states his new sound is the product of feeling like he “doesn’t need to shout so much anymore.”
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“The younger Dylan carves his own territory, and for all the right reason…An artist that has truly come into his own on the journey from bandleader to solo musician.”
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Links:
- BBC Review of Jakob Dylan’s Women and Country
- Jakob Dylan interview with Acoustic Guitar magazine:
Video: Jakob Dylan performs ‘Everybody’s Hurting’ from album Women and Country
