Jakob Dylan has been playing music for more than 30 years, touring all over the world and winning two Grammys with his band The Wallflowers. He’s released two solo albums and most recently he collaborated with his longtime manager Andrew Slater on the film and project called Echo in the Canyon, which celebrates the music that came out of LA’s Laurel Canyon in the mid-1960s. In the film, Jakob performs with contemporary musicians and interviews musical legends from the era.  Something I often like to ask my guests is how creativity was viewed in their home growing up. Well we’re not going to discuss that in this interview. Jakob’s been surrounded by music his entire life, we all know his father as one of the greatest living songwriters, but that doesn’t make it any easier when you sit down alone to write a song. In this conversation Jakob and I talk a lot about his songwriting process, where inspiration comes from, and why we both think it’s important to share encouragement with others. Jakob and I spoke somewhere in the basement of ACL Live at the Moody Theater, located off of Willie Nelson Blvd in Austin TX.