Editing Jakob Dylan (section)

====''Seeing Things''====
In 2007, 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.  On ''Endless Highway'', Dylan performed a cover of [[the Band]]'s "Whispering Pines."  For ''Instant Karma'', Dylan performed a cover of Lennon's "[[Gimme Some Truth]]," with [[Dhani Harrison]] contributing backing vocals on the song.<ref>{{cite web|title=Instant Karma: The Amnesty International Campaign to Save Darfur|url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/instant-karma-the-amnesty-international-campaign-to-save-darfur-mw0000577865|website=All Music|access-date=November 16, 2014|archive-date=June 22, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130622051801/http://www.allmusic.com/album/instant-karma-the-amnesty-international-campaign-to-save-darfur-mw0000577865|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Endless Highway: The Music of The Band|url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/endless-highway-the-music-of-the-band-mw0000558210|website=All Music|access-date=November 16, 2014|archive-date=October 23, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141023011501/http://www.allmusic.com/album/endless-highway-the-music-of-the-band-mw0000558210|url-status=live}}</ref>

[[File:Jakob Dylan.jpg|thumb|upright|Dylan in 2007]]
In September 2007, it was reported by ''[[The New York Times]]'' that Dylan was recording his first solo album at producer [[Rick Rubin]]'s home in the [[Hollywood Hills]].<ref>{{cite news|last1=Hirschberg|first1=Lynn|title=The Music Man|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/02/magazine/02rubin.t.html?ref=magazine&_r=0|newspaper=The New York Times|date=September 2, 2007|access-date=November 16, 2014|archive-date=September 26, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150926092724/http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/02/magazine/02rubin.t.html?ref=magazine|url-status=live}}</ref> Regarding its sparse instrumentation and production, Dylan described the differences in the writing process for ''Seeing Things'', compared to writing for The Wallflowers:

{{Blockquote|A lot of times when you write songs, you're aware that this line is just going to help you get to the next line and someone's probably going to do an organ fill right there anyway — you can let those go.  But with something like this, it was just three instruments, really; vocals being one of the instruments, which then makes the lyrics being one of the instruments.  You're more aware that things are going to be more exposed and you can't really let anything go unless you're confident that this is what you want to say.<ref>{{cite web|title=Jakob Dylan: Strength in Starkness|url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=92679232|website=NPR.org|date=July 18, 2008|access-date=16 November 2014|archive-date=October 5, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171005101019/http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=92679232|url-status=live}}</ref>}}

Following the completion of recording in 2007, ''Seeing Things'' was released on June 10, 2008.<ref>{{cite web|title=Jakob Dylan: Seeing Things|url=http://www.jakobdylan.com/music/seeing-things|website=JakobDylan.com|access-date=November 16, 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://archive.today/20141122042346/http://www.jakobdylan.com/music/seeing-things|archive-date=November 22, 2014}}</ref> The album received generally favorable reviews and peaked at No.24 in the US on the ''Billboard 200''.<ref>{{cite web|title=Reviews for Seeing Things|url=http://www.metacritic.com/music/seeing-things/jakob-dylan|website=Metacritic.com|access-date=November 16, 2014|archive-date=February 4, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150204040833/http://www.metacritic.com/music/seeing-things/jakob-dylan|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|title=Jakob Dylan Chart History|url=http://www.billboard.com/artist/304065/jakob+dylan/chart|magazine=Billboard|access-date=November 16, 2014|archive-date=July 7, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150707053249/http://www.billboard.com/artist/304065/jakob+dylan/chart|url-status=live}}</ref> Following the release of ''Seeing Things'', Dylan made several television appearances to promote the album and toured with a backing band called the Gold Mountain Rebels, which consisted of Wallflowers drummer Fred Eltringham, guitarist [[Audley Freed]] and bassist George Reif.  In the summer and fall of 2008, Dylan and the Gold Mountain Rebels played a combination of theaters and festivals in the US, Europe, and Japan, including [[Farm Aid]] in [[Mansfield, Massachusetts]], and the [[Newport Folk Festival]]. In addition to touring with the Gold Mountain Rebels, Dylan and Eltringham also performed several shows with The Wallflowers in 2008.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Wallflowers Concert Setlists |url=http://www.setlist.fm/setlists/the-wallflowers-7bd6b60c.html?page=12|website=Setlist.fm|access-date=November 16, 2014|archive-date=November 29, 2014|url-status=deviated|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141129030615/http://www.setlist.fm/setlists/the-wallflowers-7bd6b60c.html?page=12 }}</ref>