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Bob Dylan Revisits The Recent Vaults For Vol. 8 Of The Bootleg Series
1989 was a start of creative resurgence for Bob Dylan, coming just after he had spent time re-learning the guitar by studying Mississippi blues styles of the 1920s and '30s. It is also the starting pint for the eighth edition of his "Bootleg Series.."
"Tell Tale Signs" will comprise unreleased studio recordings, demos, alternate takes, live cuts and songs from film soundtracks from 1989 through 2006. It will be released Oct. 7.
In addition, bobdylan.com has been redesigned to facilitate social networking among Bob Heads. For many the best place to congregate is here.
Site is offering a free download of "Dreaming Of You," recorded during Dylan's 1997 sessions that spawned "Time Out Of Mind."
"Tell Tale Signs" will be released in three configurations: two CDs and a booklet; a three-CD package with an additional dozen tracks and and a hardcover book of Bob Dylan singles artwork spanning his entire career; and a four-LP set with all the elements of the two-CD set.
The soundtrack tunes are from "Lucky You" ("Huck's Tune"), "Gods & Generals" ("'Cross The Green Mountain") and "North Country" (an alternate take of "Tell Ol' Bill").
Live tracks include "High Water (For Charley Patton)" (Niagara, N.Y., 2003); "Cocaine Blues" (Vienna, Va., 1997); "Cold Irons Bound" (Bonnaroo, 2004); and "Tryin' To Get To Heaven" (London, 2000).
Now we must wait and hope that some day the series will include great shows from the '97-'02 bands.
Complete track list after the jump.
Full track listing for Bob Dylan's "Tell Tale Signs"
Disc 1
Mississippi (unreleased, Time Out of Mind)
Most of the Time (alternate version, Oh Mercy)
Dignity (piano demo, Oh Mercy)
Someday Baby (alternate version, Modern Times)
Red River Shore (unreleased, Time Out of Mind)
Tell Ol' Bill (alternate version, North Country soundtrack)
Born in Time (unreleased, Oh Mercy)
Can't Wait (alternate version, Time Out of Mind)
Everything Is Broken (alternate version, Oh Mercy)
Dreamin' of You (unreleased, Time Out of Mind)
Huck's Tune (from Lucky You soundtrack)
Marchin' to the City (unreleased, Time Out of Mind)
High Water (for Charley Patton) (live, Niagara, N.Y., 2003)
Disc 2
Mississippi (unreleased version #2, Time Out of Mind)
32-20 Blues (unreleased, World Gone Wrong)
Series of Dreams (unreleased, Oh Mercy)
God Knows (unreleased, Oh Mercy)
Can't Escape From You (unreleased, December 2005)
Dignity (unreleased, Oh Mercy)
Ring Them Bells (live at the Supper Club, New York, 1993)
Cocaine Blues (live, Vienna, Va., 1997)
Ain't Talkin' (alternate version, Modern Times)
The Girl on the Greenbriar Shore (live, 1992)
Lonesome Day Blues (live, Sunrise, Fla., 2002)
Miss the Mississippi (unreleased, 1992)
The Lonesome River (with Ralph Stanley, from Clinch Mountain Country)
'Cross the Green Mountain (from Gods and Generals soundtrack)
Disc 3
Duncan and Brady (unreleased, 1992)
Cold Irons Bound (live, Bonnaroo Festival, June 2004)
Mississippi (unreleased version #3, Time Out of Mind)
Most of the Time (alternate version #2, Oh Mercy)
Ring Them Bells (alternate version, Oh Mercy)
Things Have Changed (live, Portland, Ore., 2000)A
Red River Shore (unreleased version #2, Time Out of Mind)
Born in Time (unreleased version #2, Oh Mercy)
Tryin' to Get to Heaven (live, London, 2000)
Marchin' to the City (unreleased version #2, Time Out of Mind)
Can't Wait (alternate version #2, Time Out of Mind)
Mary and the Soldier (unreleased, World Gone Wrong)
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Not only DID bobpeople congregate at Expecting Rain, but they will continue to do so because it is the best bobsite on the web ........ and no amount of fiddling around by Sony will change that!!
Posted by: inrhealley | July 30, 2008 at 01:04 AM
$130 for a stupid book of single sleeves and an extra cd is outrageous. I hope everyone downloads the songs off the 3rd cd from blog sites, for free. Sony, and Dylan, are money-grubbing hounds. Shame on both of them
Posted by: Jack Kelleher | July 30, 2008 at 05:32 AM
to inrhealley: I 100% agree.
Posted by: phil gallo | July 31, 2008 at 08:08 AM