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First Listen: Bob Dylan, 'Triplicate'

The Nobel Award winner digs into the Great American Songbook for a third time. Stream a selection of songs from the three-disc set.
Bob Dylan's new album, <em>Triplicate</em>, comes out March 31.

Bob Dylan is evidently not finished with his (grand, now exhaustive) inquiry into the Great American Songbook.

The 2016 winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, who was hailed by the Swedish Academy for "having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition," is releasing a three-disc mega-dose from the pre-rock era of that tradition on March 31.

recorded at Capitol Studios in Los Angeles with Dylan's touring band, follows two similar efforts – (2016) and (2015) – and is his 38th studio release. Its 30 songs bring Dylan's recorded output of standards to just over 50 – or seven more than theand

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