Jakob Dylan at Whitaker Center
Jakob Dylan and Three Legs
Wednesday, July 7, 2010
Sunoco Performance Theater, 7:30pm
With special guest Isaac Russell
Tickets are $39.50, $45 and $50.
Known best as the front man for the Grammy-Award winning group The Wallflowers ─ and as the son of a folk icon ─ Jakob Dylan’s career hasn’t stopped growing since the ‘90s.
With his second solo effort, Women and Country, Dylan blends country, blues and folk into a poignant aural evocation of rural landscapes. And where his previous solo record, 2008's Seeing Things, was a stripped back "exercise in limitations," Women and Country is the work of a mature performer vested in exploring the byways of the American songbook.
The album also features enriching backup vocals by Neko Case and Kelly Hogan, on 8 of its 11 tracks. Despite the collection's western tinge, Dylan stresses that his aim wasn't just to offer up country, but rather to create an album where the melody of the songs only add to their meaning. "I just find those references and sounds more interesting. I don't want to be a throwback, and I'm not holding a torch for anything. I just think that those sounds evoke something that's undeniable to everybody."
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Presented by Whitaker Center for Science and the Arts.
