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The Bootleg Series, Vol. 8: Tell Tale Signs - Rare and Unreleased 1989-2006 Bob Dylan CD
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  • Artist: Bob Dylan
  • Format: CD
  • Year: 2008
  • Number of Discs: 2
  • UPC: 886973579527
  • Item Number: CRG357952
  • Release date: 10/07/2008
  • 1. Mississippi [Previously Unreleased]
  • 2. Most of the Time [Alternate Version][Alternate Take][Previously Unreleased]
  • 3. Dignity [Piano Demo][Previously Unreleased]
  • 4. Someday Baby [Alternate Version][Alternate Take][Previously Unreleased]
  • 5. Red River Shore [Previously Unreleased]
  • 6. Tel Ol' Bill [Alternate Version][Alternate Take][Previously Unreleased]
  • 7. Born in Time [Previously Unreleased]
  • 8. Can't Wait [Alternate Version][Alternate Take][Previously Unreleased]
  • 9. Everything Is Broken [Alternate Version][Alternate Take][Previously Unreleased]
  • 10. Dreamin' of You [Previously Unreleased]
  • 11. Huck's Tune [From Lucky You][Version]
  • 12. Marchin' to the City [Previously Unreleased]
  • 13. High Water (For Charley Patton) [Live][Previously Unreleased]
  • 1. Mississippi [Version #2][Previously Unreleased]
  • 2. 32-20 Blues [Previously Unreleased]
  • 3. Series of Dreams [Previously Unreleased]
  • 4. God Knows [Previously Unreleased]
  • 5. Can't Escape from You [Previously Unreleased]
  • 6. Dignity [Previously Unreleased]
  • 7. Ring Them Bells [Live][Previously Unreleased]
  • 8. Cocaine Blues [Live][Previously Unreleased]
  • 9. Ain't Talkin' [Alternate Version][Alternate Take][Previously Unreleased]
  • 10. The Girl on the Greenbriar Shore [Live][Previously Unreleased]
  • 11. Lonesome Day Blues [Live][Previously Unreleased]
  • 12. Miss the Mississippi [Previously Unreleased]
  • 13. The Lonesome River
  • 14. Cross the Green Mountain [From Gods and Generals]
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The Bootleg Series, Vol. 8: Tell Tale Signs - Rare and Unreleased 1989-2006 by Bob Dylan on CD


Tell Tale Signs is perhaps the most appropriately titled of all the volumes in Bob Dylan's official Bootleg Series thus far. Containing 27 tracks, the material here dates from the albums Oh Mercy through to 2006's Modern Times. It presents a carefully prepared sonic treat of a genuine enigma's musical world-view. Dylan may be an icon, but if it wasn't already obvious, he seems to perceive the modern world as a strange place that he no longer understands, nor wishes to. The music here is startling in its depth and presentation. It begins with one of the two versions of "Mississippi" included; the song first appeared on Love and Theft, but was written for the Time Out of Mind sessions five years earlier. This one, with only Daniel Lanois' electric guitar as backing, shows Dylan in full voice, and performing it as a midtempo blues. It's jauntier in tempo, but harder, leaner, and wearier than the released version. Even more shocking is "Most of the Time," which has become a signature of Lanois' production style with its warm, thickly padded guitars and muffled drums. This one features Dylan solo with harmonica and guitar. It comes off as a statement of actuality about strengths and weaknesses rather than as a treatise of denial in the aftermath of lost love. It feels like a back-porch country song here, with different lyrics that underscore the singer's steely determination. There are some truly amazing stops along the way. The unreleased "Red River Shore" would have shifted some of the darkness on Time Out of Mind to some declaration of empathy and even tenderness had it been released. Likewise, "Marchin' to the City," one of the best slow blues Dylan has ever written, offers a respite from the desolation on that album. Soundtracks get represented, too: the alternate take of "Tell Ol' Bill," from North Country, is a semi-rag tune with rambling honky tonk piano, and "Huck's Tune," from Lucky You, creates a more complex look at the male lead in the film with a Celtic und
  • Artist: Bob Dylan
  • Format: CD
  • Year: 2008
  • Number of Discs: 2
  • UPC: 886973579527
  • Item Number: CRG357952
  • Release date: 10/07/2008
  • Label: Columbia/Legacy
  • Genre: Pop/Rock
  • Style: Rock & Roll, Singer/Songwriter
  • Album Time: 137:06

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  • The Bootleg Series, Vol. 8: Tell Tale Signs - Rare and Unreleased 1989-2006 Bob Dylan CD
The Bootleg Series, Vol. 8: Tell Tale Signs - Rare and Unreleased 1989-2006 Bob Dylan CD