Jakob released his 2nd solo album April 2010 WOMAN & COUNTRY. The two time Grammy winner with his group The Wallflowers, is going solo all the way. Dylan’s folk roots come across in the soft spoken acoustic tracks of the album. His great lyrics follow in his father, Bob Dylan footsteps. He proves to be a masterful songwriter, and his voice offers a pleasing delivery as he serenades us with his folksy melodic tone.
From USA TODAY by Edna Gunderson: Dylan says "I don't want anyone to write my songs or design a sound for me," says Dylan, 40. "It's not that I'm overconfident, but if you can't do it by the time you're my age, you're probably not paying attention. I think I've identified something I do that the next guy can't."
In the same article he talks about his group The Wallflowers: "I wasn't dying to get away from anybody," he emphasizes, but he says the band, which released its last studio album in 2005, was confining. "All bands are. If you have four or five people, you're dealing with a lot more creativity and opinions. That's why they're great and why they're a drag. People grow apart, and it gets complicated."
This album is one you play for background music and find yourself singing along to tunes like “Nothing But The Whole Wide World”, and the mellow rhythmic sound of “Lend A Hand” and the country style of “Smile When all Me That”, which sounds like a George Straight song, or “Truth For Truth” a laid back sound that drums clichés into your head,
An overall pleasing album of root-folk music, which sometimes sound like country rock, but always in the low-key style of Jakob Dylan. As a performer and songwriter with lyrical artistry he is sure to be around for decades, and the future of folk music. He has clearly inherited the art of storytelling in his music as he sings of human struggles in life as his songs reflect trials and tribulations of WOMEN & COUNTRY.
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