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Bob Dylan - 100% match to Jakob Dylan

Robert Allen Zimmerman, 24 May 1941, Duluth, Minnesota, USA. Bob Dylan is without doubt one of the most influential figures in the history of popular music. He is the writer of scores of classic songs and is generally regarded as the man who brought literacy to rock lyrics.The son of the middle-class proprietor of an electrical and furniture store, as Read more

Josh Ritter - 83% match to Jakob Dylan

1976, Moscow, Idaho, USA. Raised in Idaho, singer-songwriter Ritter originally intended to follow in his parents’ footsteps by applying to study science at Oberlin College. His love of singer-songwriters such as Bob Dylan and Townes Van Zandt diverted his career path, and after graduation he relocated to the east coast where he began playing the café circuit, hon Read more

Martin Sexton - 76% match to Jakob Dylan

2 March 1966, Syracuse, New York, USA. One of 12 children born to an office-equipment salesman father, Sexton got his start in music as a member of the covers band, By Design. At the end of the 80s the singer-songwriter had relocated to Boston, waiting tables and rehearsing his own compositions in his free time. In 1992 he assembled a home-made demo album of his compositions Read more

Teddy Thompson - 75% match to Jakob Dylan

1976, London, England. As the son of folk rock?s premiere couple Richard Thompson and Linda Thompson, who had recorded a number of critically acclaimed albums in the 70s and early 80s music was always in Teddy Thompson’s blood. He was born on the Sufi commune that his parents had decamped to during the mid-70s, but lived with his mother following her separation from Ric Read more

Loudon Wainwright III - 72% match to Jakob Dylan

Donavon Frankenreiter - 71% match to Jakob Dylan

10 December 1972, Downey, California, USA. This American singer-songwriter is a close personal friend of fellow surfing musician Jack Johnson, and the patronage of the by-then world famous Johnson undoubtedly helped Frankenreiter promote his own music career in the early 00s.Frankenreiter grew up in California and began surfing professionally as a tee Read more

Matt Costa - 71% match to Jakob Dylan

Matthew Albert Costa, 16 June 1982, Huntington Beach, California, USA. Although he learned to play guitar in his early teens, singer-songwriter Costa was more intent on a pro-skateboarding career. A bad injury curtailed his plans and while he was recovering from a broken leg, Costa turned his attention back to music. His early demos came to the attention of No Doubt guitaris Read more

Newton Faulkner - 71% match to Jakob Dylan

Sam Newton Battenberg Deutoronomy Faulkner, 11 January 1985, Surrey, England. Singer-songwriter and guitarist Faulkner enjoyed a breakthrough in summer 2007 with his feel good debut, Hand Built By Robots. Faulkner attended the rock-orientated Academy of Contemporary Music in Guildford, Surrey, and after graduation played with the funk rock outfit Half A Guy. Despite a strong Read more

Jackie Greene - 69% match to Jakob Dylan

Shawn Mullins - 69% match to Jakob Dylan

8 March 1968, Atlanta, Georgia, USA. A literate, considered songwriter in the traditions of Tom Petty, Atlanta, Georgia resident Mullins made his commercial breakthrough in 1998 with ‘Lullaby’, the lead single from that year’s Soul’s Core collection. The high visibility of ‘Lullaby’ on modern rock stations subsequently pushed the album into the Read more

Brett Dennen - 68% match to Jakob Dylan

1979, Oakdale, California, USA. Raised in the small Californian town of Oakdale, where he was given free creative rein by his parents, Dennen learnt to play music in the many free hours he was allowed as a home-schooled student. After becoming proficient on the guitar he started to write his own songs, a practise he continued during a degree course in Community Studies in Sa Read more

Richie Havens - 68% match to Jakob Dylan

Richard Pierce Havens, 21 January 1941, Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA. Havens’ professional singing career began at the age of 14 as a member of the McCrea Gospel Singers. By 1962 he was a popular figure on the Greenwich Village folk circuit with regular appearances at the Cafe Wha?, Gerdes, and The Fat Black Pussycat. Havens quickly develop Read more

Johnathan Rice - 67% match to Jakob Dylan

27 May 1983, Alexandria, Virginia, USA. The son of Scottish parents, singer-songwriter Rice spent his early years living in both Virginia and Glasgow, Scotland. Having first picked up a guitar at the age of eight, he gave up the opportunity to study politics at Edinburgh University to follow his dream of becoming a professional singer-songwriter, instead moving to New York i Read more

Ray LaMontagne - 67% match to Jakob Dylan

1974, New Hampshire, USA. It is astonishing that Ray LaMontagne ever became a musician at all. He spent his early adult life avoiding any associations with his father, a Nashville musician who deserted his family when LaMontagne was aged four. It was a tough life as his mother and her children moved frequently, sometimes sleeping out in cars or tents. Growing up, he kept him Read more

Piers Faccini - 65% match to Jakob Dylan