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After 20 years in the business, Jakob Dylan has no hang ups about his father. He’s just released his second solo album

IT COMES as a bit of a shock to find the man whom Forever Youngwas written about is now 41. It is best to get Jakob Dylan’s parentage out of the way at the start, the way he likes to: “It’s been around me all my life” he says patiently. “It’s not something I get defensive about. I’ve been a musician now over 20 years; if people want to assume things about me getting musical handouts or favours, then fine – there’ll always be those suspicions. People tend to over think it. It’s not an issue for me to feel that I prove anything to anybody. I tend to just swat that talk away. After all, nobody is going to buy an album just because of the surname on the cover.”