Tell Tale Signs: the Bootleg Series Vol. 8

Bob Dylan - Tell Tale Signs: the Bootleg Series Vol. 8

Tell Tale Signs: the Bootleg Series Vol. 8
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Artist: Bob Dylan
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2008-10-07
Music Label: Sony BMG
Soundtracks:
Music CD 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)
Music CD 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)

Free Music Notes for Tell Tale Signs: the Bootleg Series Vol. 8

Free Music Review: A Beautiful Mind
Hit: 5 Stars

I can't add anything to the in-depth anaylsis in these reviews authored by expert Dylanologists, so I'll just react intuitively. Bob's soul can really be felt shining through in this beautiful collection. "Girl From the Red River Shore" is just about as poignant as it gets and makes me cry, and the bass line on "Tell Ole Bill" gets deep in my skeleton and rattles around like a free oscillation. All the songs are great. I continue to feel fortunate that I am walking on Earth in the same generation as the author of these works, and that occasionally I can still get into his air space to hear him perform. Alas that he was born in spring, but I was born too late - but then again, perhaps brilliant men are better admired from afar. Live long and prosper, Bob Dylan!

Tell Tale Signs: the Bootleg Series Vol. 8 Poster

2 CDs with 27 songs in a brilliant box with a 60 page booklet.
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

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