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The Bootleg Series, Vol. 8, Tell Tale Signs [Rare And Unreleased] 1989-2006

2CD

Bob Dylan Format: Audio CD
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Track Listings

Disc: 1

1 Mississippi
2 Most of the Time
3 Dignity
4 Someday Baby
5 Red River Shore
6 Tell Ol' Bill
7 Born In Time
8 Can't Wait
9 Everything Is Broken
10 Dreamin' of You
11 Huck's Tune
12 Marchin' to the City
13 High Water (For Charley Patton)

Disc: 2

1 Mississippi
2 32-20 Blues
3 Series of Dreams
4 God Knows
5 Can't Escape from You
6 Dignity
7 Ring Them Bells
8 Cocaine Blues
9 Ain't Talkin'
10 The Girl On the Greenbriar Shore
11 Lonesome Day Blues
12 Miss the Mississippi
13 The Lonesome River - Bob Dylan feat. Ralph Stanley
14 'Cross the Green Mountain

Product description

(2CD) BOOTLEG SERIES 8 : 27 previously unreleased & rare recordings, plus alternate versions.

Product details

  • Is discontinued by manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
  • Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 14.1 x 1.02 x 12.7 cm; 117.93 g
  • Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ Columbia / Legacy
  • Label ‏ : ‎ Columbia / Legacy
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B004AKGBIG
  • Country of origin ‏ : ‎ Netherlands
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 2
  • Customer reviews:
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  • Robert Smith
    5.0 out of 5 stars Bob Dylan.
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 18 April 2024
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    It’s Bob Dylan, nothing more to say, other than BRILLIANT !!!
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  • Didi O Sullivan
    5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 2 May 2021
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    I have to admit, i've probably listened to this more times than 'Oh Mercy,' 'Love and Theft' and 'Modern Times' put togeather. I would rate this among the likes of 'Bootleg 1-3' 'Bootleg Series 4: The "Royal Albert Hall" Concert, and quite possibly higher than some of Bobs masterpeices. Right when you think this collection is one 7-10 minute masterpeice after another, he throws in something like 'Cocaine Blues,' and Tell Tale Signs grants you the experience that the title suggests. Just beautiful material all around. This CD dosent contain a booklit or an outer cardboard sleeve as the bootleg series used to. But the music is their and thats all that really matters, although it would be nice all the same. Highly reccomend!! Also, disc 2 is just one of those CD's that has an amzing emotional affect while driving.
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  • Jamal al Din
    5.0 out of 5 stars Columbia please give us more and a nice big Bootleg Series Deluxe box version!
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 14 June 2022
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    Am i the only Bob fan out there that actually loves this more than anything else he has ever made? yes i really do think this collection is better than Blonde on Blonde for example. Does that sound crazy? I just wish Columbia would release more of these modern era Bob outtakes and give us more of them. I would be so happy to get a 5/6/7/8 CD version with a book and the live performances from the super rare disc 3 are just the tip of the iceberg to what Columbia could do with the 1996-2002 era

    play them country blues cowboy
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  • wayne smith
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great bob dylan cd
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 12 December 2023
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    Bob Dylan his best so many great songs
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  • Terry C.
    5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic double album.
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 4 November 2023
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    This is my favourite Dylan album. The music is simply wonderful.
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  • Winspit
    4.0 out of 5 stars Four Stars
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 18 October 2017
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    CD1 is great; CD2 is forgettable.
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  • dr ian
    5.0 out of 5 stars like having a new Dylan album from one of my favourite periods
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 11 October 2015
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    I've been reading Ian Bell's two volume bio of Dylan. Bell makes the point that sometimes Dylan's choices of what's included and what left out of albums is sometimes inexplicable, and that omitted songs are sometimes better than those included. This cd backs Bell up: it has some great songs, mainly from the Oh Mercy, Modern Times and Time Out of Mind period: songs not included in those albums, alternate takes, and a couple of live reinterpretations. Highlights include songs like two earlier versions of 'Mississippi' , omitted from Time out of Mind', and 'Dignity' from 'Oh Mercy' sessions. The tracks on this 'official' bootleg series are mainly studio quality recordings of full songs, not the mix of fragments that have surfaced on unauthorised bootlegs. It's like having a new Dylan album from one of my favourite periods of his work: highly recommended.
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  • Jerryboa
    5.0 out of 5 stars An Absolute Delight
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 20 December 2020
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    Two CDs of unreleased material some completely inknown, some live and some in better versions than the final releaseses.
    A few standout tracks for me are 'Red River Shore', 'Dreamin' of You', 'Huck's Tune', 'Marchin' to the City', 'Can't Escape from You'. Also great to hear him singing others' songs: Robert Johnson and Rev Gary Davies for example, which he interprets so well.
    The live band is superb and so are the studio musicians showing how songs grow or can be interpreted. Great stuff all round.
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  • g graham
    5.0 out of 5 stars I consider this Bob Dylan's best album
    Reviewed in the United States on 4 January 2025
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    That's what I think. This is mature Dylan at his best. My favorite songs are Mississippi (the first version), Everything Broken, and High Water.

    This is the exact same album as the Legacy edition. This is released by Sony Music which bought Dylan's entire music catalog.
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  • غ Customer
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great CD
    Reviewed in Canada on 25 April 2022
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    If you love Bob Dylan then you need this CD in your collection. One of his best
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  • JUAN MANUEL RODRÍGUEZ GARCÍA
    5.0 out of 5 stars TODO PERFECTO
    Reviewed in Spain on 8 September 2021
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    EXCELENTE
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  • serge viala
    5.0 out of 5 stars Dylan's be back
    Reviewed in France on 4 June 2016
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    J'ai tendance à mettre cinq étoiles à toutes les productions de Bob puisque je les considère comme des éléments du travail d'un des poètes les plus importants du vingtième siècle. Mais là, je me mets à la place de quelqu'un qui ne connaitrait absolument pas les albums originaux; si il a la même sensibilité que moi, il trouvera ce double opus excellent.Ce bootleg peut constituer pour un néophyte une entrée idéale dans l'univers complexe de cet artiste insaisissable. Mais le parcours sera long et plein de surprises formidables avant de faire le tour de l'oeuvre de Dylan...
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  • The Dreamer
    5.0 out of 5 stars Real Tell Tale Signs
    Reviewed in Italy on 4 September 2015
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    "Tell Tale Signs" (segni rivelatori) è il titolo più azzeccato per questo ottavo volume delle Bootleg Series! Questo doppio CD contiene in tutto 27 tracce, brani che risalgono dal periodo di "Oh Mercy", fino a "Modern Times" del 2006. "Tell Tale Signs" offre un'alchimia sonora preparata con grande cura, e manifesta un'enigmatica visione del mondo attuale: uno strano posto che Robert Zimmerman non sembra riconoscere, capire e accettare. Qui la musica sorprende nella struttura e nella profondità. Il set inizia con una delle due versioni di "Mississippi"; la canzone è apparsa per la prima volta su "Love And Theft", anche se era stata composta per le sessioni di "Time Out Of Mind" cinque anni prima. Questa prima versione vede Bob in piena forma vocale, con la sola chitarra elettrica di Lanois come supporto, ed è eseguita in forma di mid-tempo Blues, più snella e più difficile rispetto a quella già pubblicata. Ancor più impressionante è "Most Of The Time", che è diventata ormai una sigla dello stile di produzione di Daniel Lanois, con chitarre dalla timbrica calda e piena e percussioni ovattate. Questa interpretazione del solo Bob, che si accompagna con armonica e chitarra, prende la forma di un'esternazione schietta e veritiera sulle contrastanti emozioni che si debbono fronteggiare in seguito ad un amore perduto. Intima come poche altre, questa canzone dal sapore country ,cantata con parole leggermente diverse, sottolinea la forte determinazione della voce. L'inedita Red River Shore" avrebbe potuto attenuare il mood tenebroso di "Time Out of Mind", in quanto emana note efficaci di empatia e tenerezza. Allo stesso modo "Marchin'To The City", uno dei migliori slow Blues che Dylan abbia mai scritto, avrebbe offerto una tregua alla desolazione di quell'Album. Il set da spazio anche alle canzoni delle soundtrack: la versione alternativa di "Tell Ol'Bill", dal film "North Country", è una specie di country-rag con un irrequieto piano honky tonk, e "Huck's Tune", da "Lucky You", regala maggior profondità all'attore protagonista del film, con la sua melodia venata da ritmi Celtici. Il primo CD si chiude con un'infuocata performance live di "High Water (For Charley Patton)", con chitarre elettriche distorte in luogo del banjo.
    Nel secondo CD è in bella evidenza l'esplosiva interpretazione di "32-20 Blues" di Robert Johnson, originariamente registrata per l'Album di sole cover "World Gone Wrong", e poi estromessa dalla track list definitiva. "Can't Escape From You", brano assolutamente inedito, ritrae il folksinger che impazzisce letteralmente per le ballate rock&roll, e, col suo personale mood ironico, Mr. Zimmerman rende omaggio ai Platters, a Lieber&Stoller e Cisco Houston, con un solitario B-3 e chitarre dai toni alti. Sono presenti anche due versioni di "Dignity" (una per CD), la prima in forma minimalista di gospel profetico, con solo pianoforte, la seconda con l'accompagnamento di una band completa dalle sonorità roots-rock. La performance live di "Ring Them Bells", registrata al Supper Club di New York, è da pelle d'oca, così profondamente toccante da surclassare letteralmente la versione di studio. Il secondo CD si chiude con il momento più alto dell'intero set: "Cross the Green Mountain", dalla colonna sonora del film "Gods And Generals". Larry Sloman, autore delle brillanti e incisive note di copertina, sostiene (a ragione) che questa potrebbe essere considerata l'opera più bella di Bob come cantautore.
    "Tell Tale Signs", sin nel minimo dettaglio, sembra un 'nuovo' disco di Bob Dylan, vuoi per la strabiliante freschezza del repertorio, ma anche per l'eccezionale qualità del suono: si tratta di una release allestita con grande accuratezza, piena di energia e vitalità, che sta ad indicare (qualora ce ne fosse bisogno) come il genio di Duluth si sia mantenuto artista così acuto, imprevedibile, profondo e di riferimento (come in fondo è sempre stato). Imperdibile.
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