Bob Dylan – Triplicate Columbia 88985 41349 2 (2017)
How did you feel about Christmas in the Heart? If you loved it, then you are in luck! Here is a triple album of secular songs using a similar approach. If you hated it, well, sorry, but here is a triple album in a similar style. Although nominally a “triple” album, the content could have fit very comfortably on two discs. Anyway, this is just as self-indulgent as Patti Smith‘s Twelve and Dylan’s pal Johnny Cash‘s The Gospel Road. But I like to image that Dylan commissioned an academic study to determine what music best suits his ravages rasp of a voice these days. He then read the graph upside down and went with the music least suited to his present vocal abilities. Seriously, there are like good singers who have recorded this kind of music before, and those recordings are still available. This music would have been better as instrumentals, frankly.