Music : Tell Tale Signs: the Bootleg Series Vol. 8

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: Tell Tale Signs: the Bootleg Series Vol. 8
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0886973579527
Label: Sony BMG
Manufacturer: Sony BMG
Number Of Discs: 2
Publisher: Sony BMG
Release Date: October 07, 2008
Sales Rank: 72
Studio: Sony BMG



Disc 1:
  1. Mississippi 6:04 (Unreleased, Time Out of Mind)
  2. Most of the Time 3:46 (Alternate version, Oh Mercy)
  3. Dignity 2:09 (Piano demo, Oh Mercy)
  4. Someday Baby 5:56 (Alternate version, Modern Times)
  5. Red River Shore 7:36 (Unreleased, Time Out of Mind)
  6. Tell Ol' Bill 5:31 (Alternate version, North Country soundtrack)
  7. Born in Time 4:10 (Unreleased, Oh Mercy)
  8. Can't Wait 5:45 (Alternate version, Time Out of Mind)
  9. Everything is Broken 3:27 (Alternate version, Oh Mercy)
  10. Dreamin' of You 6:23 (Unreleased, Time Out Of Mind)
  11. Huck's Tune 4:09 (From Lucky You soundtrack)
  12. Marchin' to the City 6:36 (Unreleased, Time Out of Mind)
  13. High Water (For Charley Patton) 6:40 (Live, August 23, 2003, Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada)
Disc 2:
  1. Mississippi 6:24 (Unreleased version #2, Time Out of Mind)
  2. 32-20 Blues 4:22 (Unreleased, World Gone Wrong)
  3. Series of Dreams 6:27 (Unreleased, Oh Mercy)
  4. God Knows 3:12 (Unreleased, Oh Mercy)
  5. Can't Escape from You 5:22 (Unreleased, December 2005)
  6. Dignity 5:25 (Unreleased, Oh Mercy)
  7. Ring Them Bells 4:59 (Live at The Supper Club, November 17, 1993, New York, NY)
  8. Cocaine Blues 5:30 (Live, August 24, 1997, Vienna, VA)
  9. Ain't Talkin' 6:13 (Alternate version, Modern Times)
  10. The Girl on the Greenbriar Shore 2:51 (Live, June 30, 1992,Dunkerque, France)
  11. Lonesome Day Blues 7:37 (Live, February 1, 2002, Sunrise, FL)
  12. Miss the Mississippi 3:20 (Unreleased, 1992)
  13. The Lonesome River 3:04 (With Ralph Stanley, from the album Clinch Mountain Country)
  14. 'Cross the Green Mountain 8:15 (From Gods and Generals Soundtrack)
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Album Description:
2 CDs with 27 songs in a brilliant box with a 60 page booklet.

Amazon.com:
Bob Dylan's unpredictable nature has always kept his audience on their toes. Given his mood, a song performed on one day can seem like an entirely different composition on the next. On the two-CD Tell Tale Signs: The Bootleg Series Vol. 8--certainly one of the most riveting of the Minnesota bard's collections of unreleased recordings, studio demos, alternate takes, and live tracks--two versions of "Mississippi," which Dylan originally wrote for Time Out of Mind, bear that out. The first, where he is backed only by producer Daniel Lanois' poignant electric guitar, finds him wistful in his memories of Rosie. But by disc two, where he reprises the song with a whole band, his reading of the same lyric is dispassionate, as if he were recounting the experience of "the stranger that nobody sees," as he puts it. While the second rendition disappoints, the 27-song album, which covers material from 1989's Oh Mercy through 2006's Modern Times, offers a king's riches. In replacing the banjo with cranked-up electric guitars on a blistering live performance of "High Water (For Charley Patton)," he makes the song nearly an angry manifesto. (Another live song, "Ring Them Bells," thrills with the stunning raw power of his early performances, and renders the studio original utterly bland.) Not everything seems up to Dylan's remarkable standards (conjuring a black R & B voice for "Can't Escape From You," an homage to early rock and roll, seems off kilter and silly). But the breadth and scope of the material (from sneering and tender folk originals, to covers of Jimmie Rodgers and Robert Johnson blues, to a collaboration with bluegrass king Ralph Stanley, and side excursions into ragtime and waltz) reinforce his position as the premier songwriter of his generation. -– Alanna Nash



Customer Reviews
Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - The poetic genius of modern times
Love this package. Worth every penny. I bought the 1CD version at an airport en route to Tokyo and loved it so much that I bought the 2CD version once I got there. That was already a whole new dimension (because some of the songs make their appearance in vastly different or alternate takes). On that basis I ordered the 3CD deluxe boxset for the music - and the third CD far exceeded my expectations. Insanely creative experience. The two books are equally enjoyable. I liked the compendium of singles picture sleeves but it would have been better with a sentence of facts to accompany the photos.


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Brilliant
this boxset was a present for my husband a life long Dylan fan. The sound is superb on the vinyl and the quality of the accompanying books and materials is first class


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - BOB DYLAN TELL TALE SIGNS (DELUXE)
Gave to my BIL for Christmas -- he's a big Dylan fan and seemed thrilled with this deluxe set. Great price at AMAZON too -- more than $50 less than the next best Online store.


Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Volume Eight from the Eighth Wonder of sorts ...
Twenty two years back I bought the Biograph series which simply blew my mind; living in Calcutta, getting an LP was difficult - although there were these little stores on Free School Street that sold used records of everything we liked - Stones, Beatles, Floyd, Who, Young, Zep and other Gods of Rock & Roll. Crowning glory of ones listening repertoire were Dylan & Cohen - an easy way to be regarded an elite listener of sorts. The prices however were astronomical (250 rupees per record - which was a lot of money). So we shared records among friends - I had the Biograph series on tape without the regular inserts - I believe they were pirated. We took particular note that more than half of the songs on Biograph were not available elsewhere; Biograph was a testimony to Dylan's recording talent - without repetition of any kind.

Twenty years & six bootleg series later we all know there is probably another eight CD worth of quality recording that can be unearthed (including expansive Basement Tapes, live circa Before the Flood, Toronto live recordings circa the born again time, the classic electric era of the white hot noise and God knows what else.

This collection is spectacular and in some ways gives the feel of a more consistent studio record as opposed to a group of songs spanning some seventeen years. With Oh Mercy in 1989, and the resurrection that followed, it is perhaps not a surprise that there are many outtakes that are worthy of a regular official release for any lesser artist. Who knew growing old for Mr. Dylan could be so much fun for us?

I wonder if Columbia would release a record of just one song (Mississippi comes to mind) just to show that how each reading can sound so engrossing & can be so different from the other - and to prove a point that I have been saying for years - genius never repeats - a repeater of the same stuff day after day is a performer - not an artist.

With me getting no younger anymore, and the world the strange abode of tastelessness that it is today, I am ecstatic to own this collection - to be savoured, like good wine, in moderation and over many years. And I hope that there is more to come.

Thanks Bobby, this one's from Free School Street!



Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - better than the originals
only bob dylan could surpass his own established work from previous albums his versions of "everything's broken", not to mention a wonderful rendition of "dignity", just dylan and his piano, a five star pouring out of a old civil rights anthem "Ring them Bells" tops off "Tell Tale Signs"....

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