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Tell Tale Signs: the Bootleg Series Vol.8/Rare and Unreleased 1989-2006 | 
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| Artist: Bob Dylan
Label: Columbia
Category: Music
List Price: £21.99
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Rating:  58 reviews
Sales Rank: 191
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 5.7 x 4.8 x 0.6
MPN: 735795
UPC: 886973579527
EAN: 0886973579527
ASIN: B001D06SEI
Release Date: October 6, 2008
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| Tracks:
Disc 1
| • | Mississippi | | • | Most Of The Time | | • | Dignity | | • | Someday Baby | | • | Red River Shore | | • | Tell Ol' Bill | | • | Born In Time | | • | Can't Wait | | • | Everything Is Broken | | • | Dreamin' Of You | | • | Huck's Tune | | • | Marchin' To The City | | • | High Water (For Charley Patton) |
Disc 2
| • | Mississippi (1) | | • | 32 20 Blues | | • | Series Of Dreams | | • | God Knows | | • | Can't Escape From You | | • | Dignity (1) | | • | Ring Them Bells | | • | Cocaine Blues | | • | Ain't Talkin' | | • | Girl On The Greenbriar Shore | | • | Lonesome Day Blues | | • | Miss The Mississippi | | • | Lonesome River - Dylan, Bob & Ralph Stanley | | • | 'Cross The Green Mountain |
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Amazon.co.uk Review
Subtitled "Rare and Unreleased 1989-2006", Tell Tale Signs, the eighth of Dylan's long running Bootleg series of officially approved outtakes, comes in two formats. The two-disc version consists of 27 tracks, including alternate versions of songs from his last three studio sets: Oh Mercy, Time out of Mind and Modern Times. Even non-obsessives will be seduced by the highlights here. A lovely sparse solo version of "Most of the Time", just Dylan strumming guitar and blowing a wheezy harmonica, outdoes the Daniel Lanois-produced original. The bleak, stately "Can't Escape from You", the sad and beautiful Civil War epic "Cross the Green Mountain", "The Lonesome River" a bluegrass standard with vocals from Ralph Stanley and a great, lo-fi live version of Reverend Gary Davis's influential "Cocaine Blues" are all standouts. Two versions of "Dignity"--a piano demo that reduces it to an oddly naked state and an unexpected rockabilly take--neatly capture the idea behind these volumes--to expose dedicated fans to the overlooked and underestimated parts of Dylan's constantly shifting oeuvre. --Steve Jelbert
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 Another Classic Volume in Dylan's Bootleg Series October 3, 2008
endlessharmony (bristol)
54 out of 55 found this review helpful
Once again, the Bob Dylan bootleg series has unearthed some great unreleased gems, demos, outtakes and live recordings this time ranging from the period of 'Oh Mercy' to 'Modern Times'. The stripped down songs such as 'Mississippi' are very different to the released versions and in many respects more poignant.'Red River Shore', an unreleased outtake from 'Time Out Of Mind' is the outstanding track in the collection, though its hard to fault any of the 27 songs. If you have any of the previous volumes in this series you will know what to expect and will not be disappointed. One of the best releases of 2008 and an essential buy.
More treasures retrieved from the Dylan vaults. October 8, 2008
Jazzrook (Purbrook , Hampshire)
23 out of 24 found this review helpful
This double CD, the 8th volume in Dylan's Bootleg Series, contains 27 tracks(demos, alternative takes, unreleased songs and rarities) drawn from the period 1989-2006 which covers the albums from 'Oh Mercy' to 'Modern Times'. There are also 3 Dylan songs written for soundtracks and 6 live performances. The two alternative versions of 'Mississippi' from "Love and Theft" are radically different from each other and confirm Dylan's determination not to repeat himself. He once said that "a record is just a recording of what you were doing that day. You don't wanna live the same day over and over again, now. Do ya?"
Most tracks are fascinating but the highlight is probably 'Red River Shore' which was inexplicably left off 'Time Out Of Mind'.
'Tell Tale Signs' is another essential volume in the Bootleg Series and Dylan fans should plump for this 2-CD set and boycott the scandalously over-priced 3-CD version.
Miss this at your peril ! October 2, 2008
K. L. Smith (United Kingdom)
31 out of 36 found this review helpful
Listened to this on the NPR preview...just cant believe how great this collection is. You wont believe how much better these alternate versions are, the new tracks are better than anything on 'Modern Times'. I sat there as a life-long Dylan fan and feeling more excited than I have ever felt about an album in over 20 years.
I wont go into detail about each track but this is solid Bob for sure.
Bob has a way to knock you for six when you least expect it, and this album delivers a puch Big-Time. These so-called 'new bands' and young 'flash in the pan kids' should be locked in a room and be made to listen to a REAL song writer, beacuse it doesn't get any better than this. Album of the year, and one of Dylan's best ever collections. Essential listening.
Thank you Bob..long may you run.
Keep those bootlegs coming, Columbia November 22, 2008
Mr. A. D. Procter (Leeds, England)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I'll start off with a brief point. A lot of people have marked this item a poor buy because of a very different and overpriced 3cd version of it. But this is the rather cheap 2cd version, the one which is advertised here and the one which I plan to review. By the way, for the completist, there are people selling a copy of the third disc on ebay, so fret ye not!
As far as Bob Dylan is concerned, no two performances of a song should ever be the same. On this release, he proves his point and yet he also proves like Neil Young that he doesn't always release his best songs or the best versions of them. The first track kicks off with such a gorgeous version of Mississippi! I loved the released version, but the way Bob sings it is so tender here, the backing an almost a lilting and sympathetic response. Its not that its necessarily a 'better' version than the more strident one on Love and Theft. Its just completely different!! The same with Most of The Time, which sees Bob here sing it like the folk days of old instead of the swampy one on Oh Mercy. The real jewel in the crown on the first disc in terms of alternative versions must go to Born In Time. This is in every way a far superior version, making the one on Under The Red Sky sound frumpy and slapdash and devoid of purpose. By far the greatest unreleased song on disc one, and maybe the best of all on the set is Red River Shore. How Time Out Of Mind would have benefitted with a song like that. I'd swap it for Make You Feel My Love in an instant! Marching To The City, an unreleased song from the same sessions, and Dreaming Of You are also quite mindblowing. The live version of High Water is a revelation for all of those who have not seen him in person of late. Electrifying!
The second disc isn't quite as stupefying, if only because the alternative versions are not so different, although if this version of Ain't Talking had ended Modern Times, it would have made this Bobcat very happy indeed. The song 'God Knows' is also far superior to the released version. There are a few more live versions of his songs, the best being Ring Them Bells.... As far as unreleased songs go Can't Escape From You is an absolute gem, a real lost child and one I'm so glad I've heard. Its the one song that truly stayed in my head when I was working, just winding its way through my mind until I couldn't wait to get home and listen to the whole lot again. And to finish off, 'Cross The Green Mountain', previously released on a soundtrack which I hadn't heard is beautiful in the same way Workingman's Blues#2 was; an almost elegaic, frontier song that sounds so familiar yet original.
Oh, and how could he have left 32/20, the Robert Johnson song off World Gone Wrong???
Like the rest of the Bootleg series, this is just stirring, powerful stuff, and far more emotion is being relayed here than in many of the songs he released in the period. Maybe he didn't want to let too much of himself go at the time. But they're here now, and I'm thankful
Dazza October 10, 2008
G. Mair (glasgow)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is a wonderful treat for all dylan fans and another astoninishingly great installment to his bootleg seies.
the best songs have to be, "red river shore" and "can't escape from you"
my only advice would be buy this now but not the 89 one but the 13.00 one
Darren 16 from Glasgow
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