Triplicate

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A collection of 30 new recordings of American song classics (Columbia Records; New York, NY: January 31, 2017) A triple studio album by Bob Dylan, Triplicate, features 30 new recordings of standards from American music, and marks the first triple album of his illustrious career. Three discs presented individually as a thematic sequence of 10 tracks, Triplicate showcases Dylan’s unique talents, which have made him renowned as a singer, arranger and bandleader, on 30 compositions by some of the best-known and most acclaimed songwriters. The album produced by Jack Frost is Bob Dylan’s 38th studio album and marks a renewal in his music since Fallen Angels, which was released in early 2016. Triplicate is also available for pre-order on iTunes, and one of its recordings, “I Could Have Told You,” can be heard now via a “Vinyl Video” on YouTube. For Triplicate, Dylan gathered his touring band at Capitol Studios in Hollywood to record carefully selected songs from a range of American songwriters such as Charles Strouse and Lee Adams, Harold Arlen and Ted Koehler (“Stormy Weather”), Harold Hupfield (“As Time Goes By”) and Cy Coleman with Carolyn Leigh (“The Best is Yet to Come”). The single titles are ’Til The Sun Goes Down, Devil Dolls and Comin’ Home Late. The artist’s two previous albums of American classics, Fallen Angels in 2016 and Shadows in the Night in 2015, were worldwide successes and received Grammy Award nominations in the category of Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album. Fallen Angels reached the Top 10 in more than a dozen countries, including the UK, the US, Italy, the Netherlands and Austria, while Shadows in the Night debuted in the Top 10 in seventeen countries, and was number 1 in the UK, Ireland, Sweden and Norway. Both albums were acclaimed by the global press, with a Randy Lewis article on Fallen Angels for the Los Angeles Times: “[Dylan] immediately pulled out titles from the Big Band/Big Orchestra world, which made them famous and which are frequently reinterpreted... [He] reached the blues at the heart of many of these songs. In doing so, they evoke the pain of romantic longing and loss that is often overwhelmed by swollen orchestral ensembles, choirs, or by singers who are more focused on crafting elegant vocal lines than on seeking any emotional resonance.” Neil McCormick of the Telegraph awarded Shadows in the Night five stars out of five and described the work as “phantasmagorical, bittersweet, and fascinating [with] Dylan’s best performance in 25 years.” Jon Pareles wrote of the album for the New York Times: “Mr. Dylan presents yet another changed voice... a sustained and subdued tone... Shadows in The Night maintains its singular spirit: love-sick, haunted, suspended between an inconsolable present and all the regrets of the past.” Bob Dylan’s seven albums have been universally praised as the best of his historic career, reaching new heights in terms of commercial success and critical recognition. The platinum record Time Out Of Mind from 1997 won several Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year, while “Love and Theft” kept Dylan on the same trajectory, won several Grammy nominations, and a statuette for Best Contemporary Folk Album. Modern Times, released in 2006, became one of the artist’s most popular albums,