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Jakob Dylan

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After fronting the Wallflowers for nearly two decades, Jakob Dylan decided it was time for a change of pace. With his band on hiatus, he teamed up with producer Rick Rubin and cut an album of stark, solo acoustic songs that evoke the softer side of Elvis Costello and Bruce Springsteen. "I had never spent a lot of time adhering to the 1970s singer-songwriter 'heart on the sleeve' kind of manner," Dylan says. "But that's more available on this record than it has been in the past."

"Something Good This Way Comes"

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