# New Jacob Dylan album - Really good. Who knew? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 9, 2010, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-jacob-dylan-album-really-good-who-knew/535571 "2010-04-09T19:39:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![NAF1138](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/naf1138/32/3245_2.png) [@NAF1138](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NAF1138)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2010, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-jacob-dylan-album-really-good-who-knew/535571/1 "2010-04-09T19:39:56Z")
I listen to the NPR live concert series podcast, and just listened to their concert with Jacob Dylan promoting his new album _Women + Country_. It’s freaking great stuff! [Link](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NC0-L6C-kmo) to the video on youTube. No, seriously, this is great folk/alt country. Neko Case, Kelly Hogan and Paul Rigby perform with him…and my jaw is on the floor it’s so good. Where did this come from? As far as I knew he had his flash in the pan with the Wallflowers, who were good but not great, and then he disappeared. But I guess he released an ok solo album a little while back with Rick Ruben (which I haven’t heard anything from, so who knows it might be great too I just read a couple of reviews), and then this. This is \*great \*music. The song that starts at around the 9 minute mark in the linked concert is giving me chills. Who knew? Has he been on anyone’s radar? ---
**Author:** ![gwendee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/35a633/32.png) [@gwendee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gwendee)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2010, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-jacob-dylan-album-really-good-who-knew/535571/2 "2010-04-09T20:04:21Z")
Prompted by this thread I’m listening to it now. I actually liked some Wallflowers stuff, but just hadn’t thought about him or them in a long time. So far I’m enjoying it. Thanks for the tip. I know this will peg me as hopelessly middleaged, but how to consumers of digital music get the equivalent of liner notes? I went to Dylan’s website and found lyrics, but not who played bass on track 2. ---
**Author:** ![Beadalin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@Beadalin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beadalin)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2010, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-jacob-dylan-album-really-good-who-knew/535571/3 "2010-04-09T20:31:27Z")
T Bone Burnett is an amazing producer (and musician, of course). He just seems to bring out such depth from the artists he works with. There’s a joy and openness and profundity to the sounds of, for example, “Raising Sand” by Alison Kraus and Robert Plant, and in the soundtrack to “Crazy Heart.” Part of the reason I enjoy the records he’s produced, including this one, is that you can hear the space they’re in when they record. These albums never have that engineered, overly-compressed sound that’s so common right now. Love love love. ---
**Author:** ![CateAyo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/50afbb/32.png) [@CateAyo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CateAyo)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2010, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-jacob-dylan-album-really-good-who-knew/535571/4 "2010-04-09T23:25:30Z")
I am not really surprised. I too liked the Wallflowers more than many people.