Album review: Bob Dylan, Triplicate

Bob Dylan’s music has been obsessed over, parsed and deconstructed past the point of usefulness across the past six decades. But the rasping bard still has the capacity to surprise, as we discovered with the recent revelation that he is a fan of The Stereophonics and Imelda May. The composer of ‘Blowin’ In the Wind’ has a soft spot for ‘Handbags and Gladrags’. What a world we live in.

Dylan offered these insights promoting his collection of pre-rock’n’roll covers. Triplicate consists of three discs, each 32 minutes in length. “It’s a lucky number, and it’s symbolic of light,” he said in an interview posted to his website. “As far as the 32 minutes… that’s about the limit to the number of minutes on a long playing record where the sound is most powerful.”