The Bootleg Series Vol. 8: Tell Tale Signs: Rare and Unreleased 1989–2006
The Bootleg Series Vol. 8: Tell Tale Signs: Rare and Unreleased 1989–2006 is a compilation album by singer-songwriter Bob Dylan in his official “bootleg series” of rare and unissued recordings.It was originally released as a double, and (limited edition) triple album. It was later released as a single album, consisting of disc one of the double set. The three-disc version of Tell Tale Signs includes a detailed 56 page book annotating the recordings by Larry Sloman, and a book of photos of “The Collected Single Sleeves of Bob Dylan” drawing on Dylan releases from around the world, plus a 7″ vinyl single with two tracks from the set: “Dreamin’ Of You” and “Ring Them Bells”.
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Tracklist
| 1-1 | Mississippi (Unreleased, Time Out Of Mind) | 6:04 |
| 1-2 | Most Of The Time (Alternate Version, Oh Mercy) | 3:35 |
| 1-3 | Dignity (Piano Version, Oh Mercy) | 2:12 |
| 1-4 | Someday Baby (Alternate Version, Modern Times) | 5:58 |
| 1-5 | Red River Shore (Unreleased, Time Out Of Mind) | 7:34 |
| 1-6 | Tell Ol’ Bill (Alternate Version, North Country Soundtrack) | 5:30 |
| 1-7 | Born In Time (Unreleased, Oh Mercy) | 4:14 |
| 1-8 | Can’t Wait (Alternate Version, Oh Mercy) | 5:44 |
| 1-9 | Everything Is Broken (Alternate Version, Oh Mercy) | 3:11 |
| 1-10 | Dreamin’ Of You (Unreleased, Time Out Of Mind) | 5:50 |
| 1-11 | Huck’s Tune (From Lucky You Soundtrack) | 4:04 |
| 1-12 | Marchin’ To The City (Unreleased, Time Out Of Mind) | 6:32 |
| 1-13 | High Water (For Charley Patton) (Live, 2003) | 6:46 |
| 2-1 | Mississippi (Unreleased Version #2, Time Of Mind) | 6:22 |
| 2-2 | 32-30 (Unreleased, World Gone Wrong) | 3:06 |
| 2-3 | Series Of Dreams (Unreleased, Oh Mercy) | 6:26 |
| 2-4 | God Knows (Unreleased, Oh Mercy) | 3:07 |
| 2-5 | Can’t Escape From You (Unreleased, December 2005) | 5:12 |
| 2-6 | Dignity (Unreleased, Oh Mercy) | 5:24 |
| 2-7 | Ring Them Bells (Live At The Supper Club, 1993) | 4:59 |
| 2-8 | Cocaine Blues (Live, 1997) | 4:41 |
| 2-9 | Ain’t Talkin’ (Alternate Version, Modern Times) | 6:09 |
| 2-10 | The Girl On The Greenbriar Shore (Live, 1992) | 2:24 |
| 2-11 | Lonesome Day Blues (Live, 2002) | 7:36 |
| 2-12 | Miss The Mississippi (Unreleased, 1992) | 3:22 |
| 2-13 | The Lonesome River (With Ralph Stanley, From Clinch Mountain Country) | 3:05 |
| 2-14 | ‘Cross The Green Mountain (From Gods And Generals Soundtrack) | 8:15 |
Reviews
There’s often an understandable wariness when it comes to criticizing Bob Dylan– for one thing, he’s better at this words stuff than we are. For another, inscrutability is pretty much his career’s one constant and trying to get into his head is a fool’s errand. Each twist in the man’s art leaves you scrambling to re-assess the last. For instance, his brace of old-time covers albums in the early 90s were decried as evidence that Bob’s flush was finally busted– the well was dry.
Which Bob Dylan is it that will turn up this time? Last year’s film, I’m Not There, directed by Todd Haynes, presented seven incarnations of the singer – the young Dylan who wanted to be Woody Guthrie (played by a child), the born-again Dylan, the Dylan who played that thin wild mercury music (played by Cate Blanchett) and so on – but in the course of the past half decade, he has revealed himself to us in a further multiplicity of ways.
Read More at https://www.theguardian.com/music/2008/sep/14/bobdylan.popandrock
Tell Tale Signs is perhaps the most appropriately titled of all the volumes in Bob Dylan’s officialBootleg Series thus far. Containing 27 tracks, the material here dates from the albums Oh Mercythrough 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
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