The Bootleg Series Vol. 8: Tell Tale Signs

The Bootleg Series Vol. 8 - Tell Tale Signs: Rare and Unreleased 1989-2006
Studio album by Bob Dylan
Publication (s)	October 6, 2008
Label (s)	Columbia Records
Genre (s)	Folk
Title (number)	27
running time	2h 17m 07s
chronology Dylan (2007) The Bootleg Series Vol. 8 - Tell Tale Signs: Rare and Unreleased 1989-2006 Together Through Life (2009)

Bob Dylan: The Bootleg Series Vol. 8: Tell Tale Signs: Rare and Unreleased 1989-2006 is a 2008 Columbia Records album by Bob Dylan and another installment in his "Bootleg Series" of rare and unreleased records.

classification

All recordings date from 1989 to 2006, in which a clear direction can be seen in Dylan's work. The pieces become more original again and are based on the beginnings of his career. He turns back to the folk and blues songs. In his life, too, the liberation from the crisis begins . The tracks are mostly sparsely orchestrated, often only Dylan himself can be heard with guitar.

Publications

It was regularly released as a double CD and in the limited edition with three CDs. It was later released as a single album consisting of CD 1 of the double version. The version with the three CDs also contains a 150-page book and some editions also a 7 "vinyl single with two additional titles.

Record label announcements that the two-CD version would cost $ 18.99 and the three-CD version would cost $ 129.99 drew criticism from Bob Dylan biographer Michael Gray and others.

During the first week of October 2008, the entire album was available in free streaming format on National Public Radio's official website .

Songs

The titles are neither in chronological order nor complete. The album includes recordings from Oh Mercy , World Gone Wrong , Time Out of Mind and Modern Times as well as some earlier, unreleased tracks from 1989 to 2006. The compilation also includes a song from an album Dylan made in 1992 with David Bromberg started producing but never finished; and a duet with Ralph Stanley The Lonesome River . Although Under the Red Sky , Good As I Been to You and “Love and Theft” were recorded during this period, no titles from these recordings are included. Another version of Series of Dreams has already been released on The Bootleg Series Vol. 3 . Dreamin 'of You , an outtake of the time-out-of-mind recordings, was offered as a free download on Dylan's website and was sent to several radio stations as a "promotional single".

Many titles are only available in a different version. The differences are sometimes big and show the genesis of the songs that were finally released.

Track list

CD 1

1. Mississippi - 6:04 am (unreleased, Time Out of Mind )
2. Most of the Time - 3:46 (different version, Oh Mercy )
3. Dignity - 2:09 ( piano demo , Oh Mercy )
4. Someday Baby - 5:56 (different version, Modern Times )
5. Red River Shore - 7:36 (unreleased, Time Out of Mind )
6. Tell Ol 'Bill - 5:31 (different version of the title appeared on North Country soundtrack)
7. Born in Time - 4:10 (unreleased, Oh Mercy )
8. Can't Wait - 5:45 (different version, Time Out of Mind )
9. Everything Is Broken - 3:27 (different version, Oh Mercy )
10. Dreamin 'of You - 6:23 (unreleased, Time Out Of Mind )
11. Huck's Tune - 4:09 (Soundtrack from Lucky You )
12. Marchin 'to the City - 6:36 (unreleased, Time Out of Mind )
13. High Water (For Charley Patton ) - 6:40 (live, Niagara Falls, Ontario, 23 Aug 2003)

CD 2

1. Mississippi - 6:24 (different version # 2, Time Out of Mind )
2. 32-20 Blues - 4:22 ( Robert Johnson ) (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, 2005)
6. Dignity - 5:25 (unreleased, Oh Mercy )
7. Ring Them Bells - 4:59 (live at 'Supper Club', New York, November 17, 1993)
8. Cocaine Blues - 5:30 (live, August 24, 1997, Vienna, VA)
9. Ain't Talkin ' - 6:13 (different version, Modern Times )
10. The Girl on the Greenbriar Shore - 2:51 (live in Dunkirk , F, June 30, 1992)
11. Lonesome Day Blues - 7:37 am (live in Sunrise, FL February 1, 2002)
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 (Soundtrack, from Gods and Generals )

Deluxe Edition

The official Bob Dylan website offered a deluxe edition including a 150-page book and a bonus CD with additional titles. Fans who pre-ordered these directly on the Bob Dylan website also received a 7 "vinyl record. The first 5,000 buyers were also given a poster.

Bonus disc

1. Duncan & Brady - 3:47 (unpublished, 1992)
2. Cold Irons Bound - 5:57 (live in Bonnaroo , 2004)
3. Mississippi - 6:24 (different version # 3, Time Out of Mind )
4. Most of the Time - 5:10 (different version # 2, Oh Mercy )
5. Ring Them Bells - 3:18 (different version, Oh Mercy )
6. Things Have Changed - 5:32 (live in Portland , June 15, 2000, OR)
7. Red River Shore - 7:08 (unreleased version # 2, Time Out of Mind )
8. Born in Time - 4:19 (unreleased version # 2, Oh Mercy )
9. Tryin 'to Get to Heaven - 5:10 (live in London , October 5, 2000)
10. Marchin 'to the City - 3:39 (unreleased version # 2, Time Out of Mind )
11. Can't Wait - 7:24 (different version # 2, Time Out of Mind )
12. Mary and the Soldier - 4:23 (unreleased, World Gone Wrong )

7 "vinyl

1. Dreamin 'of You - 3:34 (Single Edit) (unreleased, Time Out Of Mind )
2. Ring Them Bells - 3:18 (different version, Oh Mercy )

reception

Tell Tale Signs landed at number 6 on the Billboard 200 in its first week . It was Bob Dylan's seventeenth album to make it into the top 10 .

The album last received 86% positive reviews on Metacritic .

The Rolling Stone awarded four and a half out of five stars and saw the album as renewed proof that Dylan often better "Production instinct" has as its producer .

Web links

• laut.de : CD-Review: Tell Tale Signs. 2008, accessed June 27, 2020 . 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Maik Brüggemeyer: Bob Dylan - Tell Tale Signs: The Bootleg Series Vol. 8. In: Rolling Stone . September 22, 2008, accessed June 27, 2020 . 
2. ↑ Jonathan Cohen: Bob Dylan Unveil's Triple-Disc Rarities Set. In: Billboard. July 29, 2008, accessed June 27, 2020 . 
3. ↑ Gray expresses his opinion on his Bob Dylan Encyclopedia blog from Tell Tale Signs Pt. 3, Money Doesn't Talk… In: Bob Dylan Encyclopedia: A Blog 2006–2012. August 14, 2008, accessed June 27, 2020 . 
4. ↑ Dan Cairns: Bob Dylan: Tell Tale Signs: The Bootleg Series Vol 8 - The Sunday Times review. In: The Sunday Times . October 5, 2008, archived from the original on May 4, 2009 ; accessed on June 27, 2020 . 
5. ↑ Mark Beech: Dylan Opens Archive to Reveal Gems, Gaffes, Rockers. (No longer available online.) In: Bloomberg.com . October 7, 2008, archived from the original on May 27, 2012 ; accessed on June 27, 2020 . 
6. ↑ First Listen: Bob Dylan's 'Tell Tale Signs'. In: NPR .com. September 30, 2008, accessed June 27, 2020 . 
7. ↑ Bob Dylan to release 8th Bootleg Series in October. (No longer available online.) In: www.chinaview.cn. July 30, 2008, archived from the original on May 27, 2012 ; accessed on June 27, 2020 . 
8. ↑ Bob Dylan - Tell Tale Signs:. The Bootleg Series Vol 8 In: laut.de . 2008, accessed June 27, 2020 . 
9. ↑ Skyroo.com: Bob Dylan - The Bootleg Series No. 8 - Official SONY BMG Pre-Order Store . Archived from the original on August 28, 2008. Retrieved June 4, 2009.
10. ^ Tell Tale Signs review on Metacritic