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

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

Bob Dylan’s Bootleg series has been a boon to fans of Hibbing, Minnesota’s favorite son. Instead of having to seek out Dylan’s unreleased material, alternate takes, and live performances, the man himself has been good enough to compile them with outstanding sound quality and throw in some fancy pictures and commentary to boot. Tell Tale Signs: the Bootleg Series Volume 8 collects unreleased material, demos, and live tracks from 1989 through 2006. While this set might not have the pure curiosity factor of the original Bootleg Series or the historical significance of the Royal Albert Hall concert featured on volume four, Tell Tale Signs will feature Dylan’s duet with Ralph Stanley, soundtrack tunes from Lucky You and Gods and Generals, and  the lone track from an album Dylan started and abandoned in 1992. 

Abstract by Mike Burr