Bob Dylan-Tell Tale Signs The Bootleg Series Vol 8-2CD-FLAC-2008-ERP

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     Artist  | Bob Dylan
     Title   | Tell Tale Signs: The Bootleg Series Vol. 8
     Genre   | Rock                                 Format  | Album
     Source  | CD                                   Time    | 137:06
     Label   | Columbia Records                     Store   | 2008
     Catalog | 88697 35795 2                        Rip     | 2021
     Bitrate | 849 kbps                             Size    | 879.05 MB
     Freq    | 44.1 kHz                             Encoder | FLAC 1.3.1
 Tracks 
     CD 1/2
     01. Mississippi (Unreleased, Time Out Of Mind)                  6:03
     02. Most Of The Time (Alternate Version, Oh Mercy)              3:35
     03. Dignity (Piano Demo, Oh Mercy)                              2:12
     04. Someday Baby (Alternate Version, Modern Times)              5:57
     05. Red River Shore (Unreleased, Time Out Of Mind)              7:34
     06. Tell Ol' Bill (Alternate Version, North Country             5:29
         Soundtrack)
     07. Born In Time (Unreleased, Oh Mercy)                         4:13
     08. Can't Wait (Alternate Version, Time Out Of Mind)            5:43
     09. Everything Is Broken (Alternate Version, Oh Mercy)          3:11
     10. Dreamin' Of You (Unreleased, Time Out Of Mind)              5:49
     11. Huck's Tune (From Lucky You Soundtrack)                     4:04
     12. Marchin' To The City (Unreleased, Time Out Of Mind)         6:32
     13. High Water (For Charley Patton) (Live, 2003)                6:46
     CD 2/2
     01. Mississippi (Unreleased Version #2, Time Out Of Mind)       6:21
     02. Blues (Unreleased, World Gone Wrong)                        3:05
     03. Series Of Dreams (Unreleased, Oh Mercy)                     6:26
     04. God Knows (Unreleased, Oh Mercy)                            3:07
     05. Can't Escape From You (Unreleased, December 2005)           5:12
     06. Dignity (Unreleased, Oh Mercy)                              5:23
     07. Ring Them Bells (Live At The Supper Club, 1993)             4:58
     08. Cocaine Blues (Live, 1997)                                  4:40
     09. Ain't Talkin' (Alternate Version, Modern Times)             6:08
     10. The Girl On The Greenbriar Shore (Live, 1992)               2:24
     11. Lonesome Day Blues (Live, 2002)                             7:35
     12. Miss The Mississippi (Unreleased, 1992)                     3:21
     13. The Lonesome River (With Ralph Stanley)                     3:04
     14. 'cross The Green Mountain (From Gods And Generals           8:14
         Soundtrack)
 Notes  
     Bob Dylan's influence on popular music is incalculable. As a songwriter, he
     pioneered several different schools of pop songwriting, from confessional
     singer/songwriter to winding, hallucinatory, stream-of-consciousness
     narratives. As a vocalist, he broke down the notion that a singer must have
     a conventionally good voice in order to perform, thereby redefining the
     vocalist's role in popular music. As a musician, he sparked several genres
     of pop music, including electrified folk-rock and country-rock. And that's
     just the tip of his achievements.
     "Tell Tale Signs" is perhaps the most appropriately titled of all the
     volumes in Bob Dylan's official Bootleg Series thus far. Containing 27
     tracks, the material here dates from the albums Oh Mercy through to 2006's
     Modern Times. It presents a carefully prepared sonic treat of a genuine
     enigma's musical world-view. Dylan may be an icon, but if it wasn't already
     obvious, he seems to perceive the modern world as a strange place that he
     no longer understands, nor wishes to. The music here is startling in its
     depth and presentation. It begins with one of the two versions of
     "Mississippi" included.
     The song first appeared on Love and Theft, but was written for the Time Out
     of Mind sessions five years earlier. This one, with only Daniel Lanois'
     electric guitar as backing, shows Dylan in full voice, and performing it as
     a midtempo blues. It's jauntier in tempo, but harder, leaner, and wearier
     than the released version. Even more shocking is "Most of the Time," which
     has become a signature of Lanois' production style with its warm, thickly
     padded guitars and muffled drums. This one features Dylan solo with
     harmonica and guitar.
     It comes off as a statement of actuality about strengths and weaknesses
     rather than as a treatise of denial in the aftermath of lost love. It feels
     like a back-porch country song here, with different lyrics that underscore
     the singer's steely determination. There are some truly amazing stops along
     the way. The unreleased "Red River Shore" would have shifted some of the
     darkness on Time Out of Mind to some declaration of empathy and even
     tenderness had it been released. Likewise, "Marchin' to the City," one of
     the best slow blues Dylan has ever written, offers a respite from the
     desolation on that album.
     Soundtracks get represented, too: the alternate take of "Tell Ol' Bill,"
     from North Country, is a semi-rag tune with rambling honky tonk piano, and
     "Huck's Tune," from Lucky You, creates a more complex look at the male lead
     in the film with a Celtic undertow in the melody. Disc one closes with a
     burning live reading of "High Water (For Charley Patton)," with overdriven
     electric guitars replacing the banjo.
     A real surprise on disc two is a dynamite reading of Robert Johnson's
     "32-20 Blues" that was originally recorded for the covers-only World Gone
     Wrong, but left in the can. A completely unreleased tune, "Can't Escape
     from You" portrays Dylan the folksinger as a lover of early rock & roll
     ballads. In his own wrecked way, he pays homage (in waltz time) to the
     Platters, Doc Pomus, Leiber & Stoller, and Cisco Houston with a lonely B-3
     and trebly guitars. There are two takes of "Dignity" here as well (one on
     each disc), the first a prophetic gospel solo piano version and the second
     a full-band roots rock rave-up.
     The version of "Ring Them Bells" recorded live at New York's Supper Club is
     so utterly moving that it raises goosebumps and leaves the studio version
     in the dust. The disc closes with the greatest moment on the whole set:
     "'Cross the Green Mountain," from the Gods and Generals soundtrack. Veteran
     Dylanologist Larry Sloman claims in his truly brilliant and incisive liner
     notes that this "might be his finest hour as a songwriter." The amazing
     thing? It's not just hyperbole. In all, even in some of its familiarities,
     Tell Tale Signs feels like a new Bob Dylan record, not only for the
     astonishing freshness of the material, but also for the incredible sound
     quality and organic feeling of everything here.
     It's a carefully presented set, but it's full of life and crackling energy
     and offers yet more proof - as if any were needed - that Dylan remains as
     cagey, unpredictable, and yes, profound and relevant as he ever was.

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