Jakob Luke Dylan was born on December 9,1969 and is an American singer-songwriter.
26 Facts About Jakob Dylan
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Jakob Dylan rose to fame as the lead singer and primary songwriter for the rock band the Wallflowers.
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Jakob Dylan was born on December 9,1969, in New York City to folk singer Bob Jakob Dylan and model Sara Lownds.
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The youngest of five children, Jakob Dylan spent the earliest years of his life in Greenwich Village.
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Jakob Dylan was particularly impressed with the Clash, who inspired him to begin playing music himself.
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Jakob Dylan was in a band called the Bootheels at the time with future Wallflowers bandmate Tobi Miller.
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Jakob Dylan dropped out in his first semester and returned to Los Angeles to pursue music.
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Jakob Dylan wrote the songs and the album was recorded live in the studio with minimal to no overdubbing.
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Greg Richling, whom Jakob Dylan went to high school with, became the band's new bassist.
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In June 1997, Jakob Dylan was featured on the cover of Rolling Stone.
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In October 2000, Jakob Dylan was featured on the cover of Rolling Stone for a second time.
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Jakob Dylan began writing for the Wallflowers' fourth album, Red Letter Days in 2001.
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In May and June 2006, Jakob Dylan toured with former Wallflowers producer T Bone Burnett, performing solo acoustic opening sets.
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Also in the fall of 2006, it was announced that Jakob Dylan had signed a solo recording contract with Columbia Records.
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In 2007, Jakob Dylan appeared on several tribute albums, including Endless Highway: The Music of The Band and Instant Karma: The Amnesty International Campaign to Save Darfur, a charity album consisting of covers of John Lennon songs.
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In September 2007, it was reported by The New York Times that Jakob Dylan was recording his first solo album at producer Rick Rubin's home in the Hollywood Hills.
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In 2009, Jakob Dylan visited T Bone Burnett at a studio where Burnett was producing the soundtrack for the film Crazy Heart.
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Jakob Dylan came back to Burnett six weeks later with the songs and in 2009 they recorded Jakob Dylan's second solo album, Women + Country.
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At a stop at the Bearsville Theater in Woodstock, New York, Jakob Dylan was joined on stage by Garth Hudson of the Band for several songs.
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In 2011, Jakob Dylan was featured on several film and television soundtracks, including A Little Help, for which he wrote three songs, and True Blood: Vol.
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The writing process was different for this album than previous Wallflowers albums; instead of Jakob Dylan bringing in completed songs, he brought only lyrics to the studio, and as a band they wrote the music for the songs.
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Jakob Dylan had a bar mitzvah, the ceremony that marks Jewish teenage boys' religious coming of age.
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In 2005, Jakob Dylan spoke about his relationship with his father, Bob Jakob Dylan, for the first time in an interview with The New York Times.
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Jakob Dylan rebuffed these claims, speaking of his father as "affectionate" towards him and went on to say the two have a "great relationship".
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In May 2011, Jakob Dylan was awarded an honorary Doctor of Letters degree from Idaho State University.
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Jakob Dylan is a supporter of diabetes awareness and was given a Father of the Year award from the American Diabetes Association on June 4,2014.