The Wallflowers

Without dwelling on what must constitute one of the most anxiety-provoking musical legacies in the history of popular music, let’s just say that The Wallflowers frontman Jakob Dylan—Bob’s kid, for novices—is doing just fine. Songs off of 1996’s Bringing Down The Horse still appear regularly on soundtracks and commercials, and it’d be difficult to find someone above the age of 20 who couldn’t hum a few bars from the album’s breakthrough single, “One Headlight.” Subsequent albums didn’t make quite the same splash, but few would deny the easy charm of The Wallflowers’ country-inflected rock. The band is touring behind the greatest-hits collection Collected: 1996-2005, released earlier this year.

Updated 08/24/2009