The Wallflowers' lead singer Jakob Dylan blasts out the song "Sunflowers" ["Some Flowers Bloom Dead"] for a sold-out crowd of 6,000 Friday night at St. Cloud State University's Halenbeck Hall.
Photo by: Kimm Anderson

While the Wallflowers might have been promoting their third album, it was songs from the band's second album that packed Halenbeck Hall at St. Cloud State University.

The concert was the second in three years for Jakob Dylan and the Wallflowers at St. Cloud State. The band is on tour promoting "Breach," its recently released album.

The concert kicked off with a song from the band's new album. It wasn't until the third song, "Sixth Avenue Heartache," a single off the band's Grammy award-winning second album, that the sold-out crowd of more than 6,000 began to warm up.

The crowd, a mix of young and old, mouthed the words as Dylan belted it out. Colored lights provided a backdrop as psychedelic flowers and shapes spun behind him.

Lorimer Cushman, a senior at St. John's University, said while older songs might have been driving the crowd wild, the songs seemed repetitive since they have received so much radio airplay.

Dylan often took the time to talk with the crowd, acknowledging his family's ties to Minnesota. As a child, Dylan visited often and still has many relatives in Minnesota.

While a few members of the audience might have come because Jakob Dylan is the son of Bob Dylan, a folk icon from the 1960s, they clearly were in the minority.

Taaya Zellmann brought her 50-year-old father from New Germany to Friday night's show.

After listening to the opening act, The Jon Doe Thing, the Zellmanns weren't able to stay too long into the Wallflowers set, which started about 9:30 p.m.