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Rothbury kicked into high gear on Friday, as Jakob Dylan ushered in the afternoon with a set of dusty Americana tunes. Sporting a wide-brimmed hat and sunglasses that could've reflected a nuclear blast, Dylan looked like Sheriff Cooley from O Brother, Where Art Thou? while singing in a comfortable, cool baritone. “Let me be the first up here to say ‘Happy 4th of July,’” he said, drawing applause from the crowd of Wallflowers fans and wandering passerby.

After five albums and 18 years fronting The Wallflowers, Jakob Dylan has built the confidence to “go acoustic” on his first solo album, the Rick Rubin-produced Seeing Things. Historically speaking, this is a very big deal, because the 38-year-old Dylan has fashioned a batch of topical songs out of the bedrock of traditional music, just as Dad did during his initial burst of brilliance.