A three-disc studio album from Bob Dylan, TRIPLICATE, will be released on March 31, featuring 30 brand-new recordings of classic American tunes and marking the first triple-length set of the artist’s illustrious career. With each disc individually titled and presented in a thematically-arranged 10-song sequence, TRIPLICATE showcases Dylan’s unique and much-lauded talents as a vocalist, arranger and bandleader on 30 compositions by some of music’s most lauded and influential songwriters. The Jack Frost-produced album is the 38th studio set from Bob Dylan and marks the first new music from the artist since FALLEN ANGELS, which was released in early 2016.
TRIPLICATE will be simultaneously released in several configurations, including a 3-CD 8-Panel Digipak, a 3-LP vinyl set and a 3-LP Deluxe Vinyl Limited Edition packaged in a numbered case. TRIPLICATE is also available for pre-order now with one of its recordings, ‘I Could Have Told You,’ can now be streamed via a “Vinyl Video” on YouTube (STREAM HERE).
For TRIPLICATE, Dylan assembled his touring band in Hollywood’s Capitol studios to record hand-chosen songs from an array of American songwriters including Charles Strouse and Lee Adams (‘Once Upon A Time’), Harold Arlen and Ted Koehler (‘Stormy Weather’), Harold Hupfield (‘As Time Goes By’) and Cy Coleman and Carolyn Leigh (‘The Best Is Yet To Come’). The titles of the individual discs are ‘Til The Sun Goes Down, Devil Dolls and Comin’ Home Late.
The artist’s two previous album of classic American songs, last year’s FALLEN ANGELS and 2015’s SHADOWS IN THE NIGHT, were both worldwide hits and garnered Grammy Award nominations in the category of Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album. FALLEN ANGELS achieved Top Ten debuts in more than a dozen countries, including the United Kingdom, the United States, Italy, The Netherlands and Austria, while SHADOWS IN THE NIGHT debuted in the Top 10 in seventeen countries, with #1 debuts in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Sweden and Norway.
In December 2016, Bob Dylan was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature by the Swedish Academy “for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition.” He was a 2012 recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the United States’ highest civilian honour, and was awarded a special Pulitzer Prize in 2008 for “his profound impact on popular music and American culture, marked by lyrical compositions of extraordinary poetic power.” He was also the recipient of the Officier de la Legion d’honneur in 2013, Sweden’s Polar Music Award in 2000, Doctorates from the University of St. Andrews and Princeton University, as well as numerous other honours.
Bob Dylan has sold more than 125 million records around the world.
The complete vinyl track listing for TRIPLICATE is as follows. The CD sequence and track listing is identical to the vinyl version, but each disc has only one side.