{"id":3325,"date":"2011-08-10T00:53:54","date_gmt":"2011-08-10T07:53:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=3325"},"modified":"2011-08-10T00:54:09","modified_gmt":"2011-08-10T07:54:09","slug":"jakob-dylan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2011\/08\/jakob-dylan\/","title":{"rendered":"JAKOB DYLAN"},"content":{"rendered":"

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JAKOB DYLAN<\/h1>\n

Chasing new sounds with an old friend<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Women and Country<\/em>, the second solo album from Wallflowers frontman Jakob Dylan, came together in the studio within days. But that doesn\u2019t worry him. \u201cI\u2019ve done records that have taken eight months, and\u00a0I don\u2019t know what happened in all that\u00a0time,\u201d he says with a laugh. Perhaps credit for that efficiency should go to the crack team of professionals he assembled for\u00a0the record, including producer T Bone Burnett\u2014back in the studio with Dylan for the first time since the Wallflowers\u2019 multiplatinum Bringing Down the Horse<\/em>\u2014and alt-country darlings Neko Case and Kelly Hogan, who provide harmony vocals. We caught up with Dylan on the West Coast to talk about his new music.<\/p>\n

What was on your mind when you started writing Women and Country<\/em>?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I had been talking to T Bone about making some music together again. That got me very excited. I was clearly able to envision a sound that I could fit my vocals into: It wasn\u2019t going to be acoustic, and yet it wasn\u2019t going to be a typical rock \u2019n\u2019 roll record. It put me into a setting, a mood that I found really interesting.<\/p>\n

What was that sound, as you <\/strong>imagined it?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Very organic. We wanted to hear earth tones. I\u2019m not too hung up on it sounding old-world, or what the particular instrumentation was. I\u2019ve spent a lot of time in the studio making things go backwards and forwards and going through different amplifiers, and I don\u2019t think we got too hung up on that.<\/p>\n

Did the songs evolve much once you got into the studio?<\/strong><\/p>\n

There\u2019s always a natural process\u2014as soon as you put a drum or a bass in, something different happens. But that\u2019s the exciting part. I enjoy bringing a song that\u2019s hopefully as fully formed as possible into a room with people who can enhance that and surprise me. I\u2019ve never been interested in going into the studio and playing all the instruments. If it were all my ideas, it would be pretty boring. And T Bone has a way of getting everybody enthusiastic to bite off quite a bit. I think the record when it came together began to feel very conceptual and ambitious\u2014but\u00a0T Bone\u2019s good company to chase that kind of thing with.<\/p>\n

How did Neko Case and Kelly Hogan get involved?<\/strong><\/p>\n

We\u2019d talked about having someone sing background, and we wanted to make sure we were adding an element of personality to the record. It\u2019s encouraging to know that people, no matter what their level is, will still want to be part of music they respond\u00a0 to.<\/p>\n

Did you work out the harmonies on <\/strong>the spot?<\/strong><\/p>\n

The two of them had worked on their\u00a0stuff beforehand. So a lot of it was\u00a0very prepared, but a lot happened in the studio on the fly. What they did was very surprising to my ears.<\/p>\n

What guitars did you play on <\/strong>the album?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I only brought my Martin 000-42. I\u2019ve gone through phases of collecting guitars, but I don\u2019t much anymore. I\u2019ve had guitars that I thought were a good idea at the time, but they just had nothing in them. They were empty. Now I just try to keep the good guitars around, the ones that feel good and the ones that inspire you to knock something out\u00a0of them.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s the most important lesson you\u2019ve learned in your career to date?<\/strong><\/p>\n

That implies I\u2019ve learned something. (laughs<\/em>) I\u2019ve been through a lot, I\u2019ve seen a\u00a0lot, but I can\u2019t say that adds up to anything concrete. I guess as you do it longer, you\u00a0find out what you\u2019re interested in. You simplify that as you go along to what\u00a0matters most. Do good things and put them\u00a0forward, and good things will come\u00a0of it.<\/p>\n

\u2013Katie Dodd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

JAKOB DYLAN Chasing new sounds with an old friend Women and Country, the second solo album from Wallflowers frontman Jakob Dylan, came together in the studio within days. But that doesn\u2019t worry him. \u201cI\u2019ve done records that have taken eight months, and\u00a0I don\u2019t know what happened in all that\u00a0time,\u201d he says with a laugh. Perhaps […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[2373,49,970],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3325"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3325"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3328,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3325\/revisions\/3328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}