Seeing Things is singer-songwriter

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 Jakob Dylan

Jakob Dylan

Jakob Luke Dylan is the lead singer and songwriter of the rock band The Wallflowers and is a son of singer-songwriter Bob Dylan and Sara Dylan. He has also recorded two solo albums.-Personal life:...

's first solo studio album

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. The album was released on June 10, 2008, by Columbia Records

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 (the same label that his father Bob Dylan

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 is signed to), and was recorded at the Hollywood Hills

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 home of producer Rick Rubin

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.

Dylan performed songs from the album for a small group on May 8, 2008 at Nissan's Live Sets in Los Angeles

Los Ángeles

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, California

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. Videos of these performances are available for viewing at Jakob Dylan @ Yahoo Music.

Dylan also announced his first solo tour with his band The Gold Mountain Rebels to promote the album beginning May 17, 2008, with appearances on The Late Show with David Letterman on June 11, on the Tonight Show with Jay Leno on July 15, and on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson

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on August 4.

Track listing

All songs written by Jakob Dylan

Jakob Dylan

Jakob Luke Dylan is the lead singer and songwriter of the rock band The Wallflowers and is a son of singer-songwriter Bob Dylan and Sara Dylan. He has also recorded two solo albums.-Personal life:...

; "I Told You I Couldn't Stop" co-written by Matt Sweeney

Matt Sweeney

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1. "Evil Is Alive and Well" – 3:56
2. "Valley of the Low Sun" – 3:57
3. "All Day and All Night" – 3:28
4. "Everybody Pays as They Go" – 3:00
5. "Will It Grow" – 4:49
6. "I Told You I Couldn't Stop" – 4:14
7. "War Is Kind" – 3:08
8. "Something Good This Way Comes" – 3:39
9. "On up the Mountain" – 3:45
10. "This End of the Telescope" – 3:59

Personnel

• Jakob Dylan – bass, guitar, vocals
• Rick Rubin – producer
• Z. Berg – Musician
• Mathieu Bitton – art direction, design
• Jason Boesel – musician
• Lindsay Chase – production coordination
• Rich Egan – management
• Jason Lader – engineer, mixing
• Vlado Meller – mastering
• James Minchin – photography
• Mark Santangelo – assistant

Chart positions

Chart (2008)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard 200 Billboard 200 The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists...	24

Seeing Things debuted at number 24 on the Billboard Top 200 albums chart with 24,000 copies sold in its first week.