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His first triple album, thirty standards in three themed sets of ten, closing out his run of American songbook records.
Triplicate came out in 2017, the year after Dylan was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, and was his first three-disc album of new recordings. He recorded it at Capitol Studios in Hollywood with his touring band, this time with more horns in the arrangements, and arranged the thirty songs into three discs of ten, each given its own title and loosely following a mood. Some of the songs had been recorded by Frank Sinatra, while others reach wider across the American songbook, including "Stormy Weather" and "As Time Goes By". The playing is again gentle and unhurried, and Dylan's voice is patient and close, though the sheer length makes the record more of a long late-night program than a statement. Reviewers admired the care and craft but many felt the project had run its course. It was the last of his standards albums before he returned to writing his own songs.
Track list · 30 songs
A man who had his future mapped out with someone learns she is gone and must start over.
love · loss
Its page ›Someone who watched a lover leave says he saw it coming all along and was hurt anyway.
love · loss
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time · loss · love
Its page ›Seeing a former love again, a man finds the old attraction comes straight back.
love · time
Its page ›A man living alone after a breakup finds the evenings start too soon and stretch too long.
loss · time
Its page ›A man tells the woman he loves that she is the only one, and describes how she moves him.
love
Its page ›On a tropical shore, the warm winds bring back memories of a lover who is no longer there.
love · loss
Its page ›A man playfully boasts about his sweetheart while admitting he may be bragging a bit too much.
love
Its page ›A man reflects on how the imagination can make a lover seem perfect, and wonders if it is fooling him.
love
Its page ›A lover answers the question of how much he cares by pointing to the depth of the sea and the height of the sky.
love
Its page ›A man away from home writes a letter to the woman he loves, filling it with small news and his longing.
love · the road
Its page ›A man courting someone promises that their romance has only just begun and its best days lie ahead.
love · time
Its page ›Love is described as a tangle of opposites, funny and sad, calm and wild, but always beautiful.
love
Its page ›Someone who once laughed off talk of hard times finds that the hard times have finally arrived.
loss · time
Its page ›A lonely man asks where the person meant for him is, and whether he will ever find her.
love · loss
Its page ›A man alone by a smoky fireplace keeps seeing the face of a lost love whenever the chimney acts up.
loss · love
Its page ›Every day the same overwhelming feeling returns, the thrill of being in love that never wears off.
love · time
Its page ›After a quarrel with his sweetheart, a man lies awake all night until he can set things right.
love
Its page ›A traveller sets off by train for home, eager to return to the places and people of the past.
the road · time · war
Its page ›A man realises that at some point on the road of life he lost the person he loved.
love · loss
Its page ›A worldly, older man looks back with longing on the innocent days of his youth.
time · loss
Its page ›Small everyday objects and moments keep reminding a man of a lover who is gone.
love · loss
Its page ›Alone at nightfall, a man remembers a love that has ended and finds the memory itself is all he has left.
love · time · loss
Its page ›A man whose heart has been broken notices that his misery amuses everyone around him except himself.
love · loss
Its page ›Someone devoted to a lover who does not return the feeling asks what the point of their own life can be.
love · loss
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