| Product Summary | | Label: Cbs/epic/wtg Records | | UPC: 00886973579725 | | Release Date: 10/7/2008 | | Buy.com Sku: 209059998 | | Item#: M4F62T | | Buy.com Sales Rank: 39339 | Format:  CD |
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Disc 1
| | Song Title | Sample | | 1. Mississippi [Unreleased, Time Out of Mind] - (previously unreleased) ~ Bob Dylan |  | | 2. Most of the Time [Alternate Version, Oh Mercy] - (previously unreleased, alternate take) ~ Bob Dylan | | | 3. Dignity [Piano Demo, Oh Mercy] - (previously unreleased) ~ Bob Dylan | | | 4. Someday Baby [Alternate Version, Modern Times] - (previously unreleased, alternate take) ~ Bob Dylan | | | 5. Red River Shore [Unreleased, Time Out of Mind] - (previously unreleased) ~ Bob Dylan | | | 6. Tell Ol' Bill [Alternate Version,North Country Soundtrack] - (previously unreleased, alternate take) ~ Bob Dylan | | | 7. Born In Time [Unreleased, Oh Mercy] - (previously unreleased) ~ Bob Dylan | | | 8. Can't Wait [Alternate Version, Time Out of Mind] - (previously unreleased, alternate take) ~ Bob Dylan | | | 9. Everything is Broken [Alternate Version, Oh Mercy] - (previously unreleased, alternate take) ~ Bob Dylan | | | 10. Dreamin' Of You [Unreleased, Time Out of Mind] - (previously unreleased) ~ Bob Dylan | | | 11. Huck'S Tune [From Lucky You Soundtrack] ~ Bob Dylan | | | 12. Marchin' To The City - (previously unreleased) ~ Bob Dylan | | | 13. High Water (For Charley Patton) [Live, 2003] - (previously unreleased, live) ~ Bob Dylan | | Disc 2
| | Song Title | Sample | | 1. Mississippi [Unreleased Version #2, Time Out of Mind] - (previously unreleased) ~ Bob Dylan | | | 2. 32-20 Blues [Unreleased, World Gone Wrong] - (previously unreleased) ~ Bob Dylan | | | 3. Series of Dreams [Unreleased, Oh Mercy] - (previously unreleased) ~ Bob Dylan | | | 4. God Knows [Unreleased, Oh Mercy] - (previously unreleased) ~ Bob Dylan | | | 5. Can't Escape From You [Unreleased, December 2005] - (previously unreleased) ~ Bob Dylan | | | 6. Dignity [Unreleased, Oh Mercy] - (previously unreleased) ~ Bob Dylan | | | 7. Ring Them Bells [Live At the Supper Club, 1993] - (previously unreleased, live) ~ Bob Dylan | | | 8. Cocaine Blues [Live, 1997] - (previously unreleased, live) ~ Bob Dylan | | | 9. Ain't Talkin' [Alternate Version, Modern Times] - (previously unreleased, alternate take) ~ Bob Dylan | | | 10. Girl On the Greenbriar Shore [Live, 1992], The - (previously unreleased, live) ~ Bob Dylan | | | 11. Lonesome Day Blues [Live, 2002] - (previously unreleased, live) ~ Bob Dylan | | | 12. Miss the Mississippi [Unreleased, 1992] - (previously unreleased) ~ Bob Dylan | | | 13. Lonesome River [With Ralph Stanley], The - (featuring Ralph Stanley) ~ Bob Dylan | | | 14. 'Cross The Green Mountain [From Gods and Generals Soundtrack] ~ Bob Dylan | | Disc 3
| | Song Title | Sample | | 1. Duncan & Brady [Unreleased, 1992] - (previously unreleased) ~ Bob Dylan | | | 2. Cold Irons Bound [Live, 2004] - (live) ~ Bob Dylan | | | 3. Mississippi (Unreleased Version #3) - (previously unreleased) ~ Bob Dylan | | | 4. Most of the Time [Alternate Version #2, Oh Mercy] - (alternate take) ~ Bob Dylan | | | 5. Ring Them Bells [Alternate Version, Oh Mercy] - (alternate take) ~ Bob Dylan | | | 6. Things Have Changed [Live, 2000] - (live) ~ Bob Dylan | | | 7. Red River Shore [Unreleased Version #2, Time Out of Mind] - (previously unreleased) ~ Bob Dylan | | | 8. Born In Time [Unreleased Version #2, Oh Mercy] - (previously unreleased) ~ Bob Dylan | | | 9. Tryin' To Get To [Live, 2000] - (live) ~ Bob Dylan | | | 10. Marchin' To The City [Unreleased Version #2, Time Out of Mind] - (previously unreleased) ~ Bob Dylan | | | 11. Can't Wait [Unreleased Version #2, Time Out of Mind] - (previously unreleased) ~ Bob Dylan | | | 12. Mary and the Soldier [Unreleased, World Gone Wrong] - (previously unreleased) ~ Bob Dylan | |
| Bob Dylan's Tell Tale Signs: The Bootleg Series Vol. 8 -- the 8th installment in the best-selling and critically lauded Bootleg Series which launched in 1991 -- is out now on Columbia Records. A treasure-trove of 27 songs spanning two discs, Tell Tale Signs features previously unreleased recordings and alternate versions of tracks from sessions which generated some of Bob Dylan's most acclaimed and commercially successful albums from the last two decades, including Time Out of Mind, Love and Theft, Modern Times and Oh Mercy. Special deluxe package of Tell Tale Signs features a bonus third disc with 12 extra audio tracks, a 150 page hardcover book of singles artwork spanning his entire career, and a 60-page booklet, packaged in a specially designed hardcover solid slipcase.
| | Album Notes and Credits |
Notes & Personnel Info |  | Personnel: Bob Dylan (vocals, guitar, harp, harmonica, piano, organ); Ralph Stanley (vocals, banjo); Donnie Heron (guitar, steel guitar); Daniel Lanois (guitar, dobro, organ); Glen Lowe, Robert Britt, Tom Morrongiello, David Bromberg, Denny Freeman, Duke Robillard, Freddy Koella, James Shelton, John Jackson, Mason Ruffner, Ralph Stanley II, Stu Kimball, Brian Stoltz, Charlie Sexton (guitar); Cindy Cashdollar (slide guitar, dobro); Bucky Baxter (electric slide guitar, steel guitar, pedal steel guitar); Steve Sparkman (banjo); Jeff Wisor, Dick Fegy (mandolin, fiddle); John Rigsby (mandolin); Elena Fremerman (violin); James Price (fiddle); Augie Meyers (accordion, organ); John Firmin (clarinet, tenor saxophone); Peter Ecklund (trumpet); Curtis Linberg (trombone); Tony Mangurian (piano, drums, percussion); Jim Dickinson, Benmont Tench (organ); Christopher Cameron (keyboards); Robert Amiot, Tony Hall, Tony Garnier (bass instrument); Jack Cooke (upright bass); David Kemper, Winston Watson (drums, percussion); Jim Keltner, Willie Green, Richard Crooks , George Receli, Brian Blade (drums); Malcolm Burn (tambourine); Cyril Neville, Daryl Johnson (percussion). | | Audio Mixers: Chris Shaw; Malcolm Burn; Mark Wilder. | | This eighth chapter in Dylan's epic Bootleg Series covers the era bookended by 1989's OH MERCY and 2006's MODERN TIMES. As the only installment with its own unique title, TELL TALE SIGNS acts in some ways as its own original record and the fourth salvo in the renaissance kicked off by 1997's TIME OUT OF MIND. A deeply satisfying two-disc set, TELL TALE SIGNS argues emphatically that these albums were no fluke, but rooted in a significantly broader, deeper wellspring of creativity. Unconcerned with the contemporary zeitgeist, Dylan synthesizes old forms--from rockabilly to jump blues; from Jimmie Rodgers-esque parlor balladry to country gospel--into his millieu with extraordinary ease, and rides various ace line-ups (which feature such stalwarts as guitarist/fiddler Larry Campbell, guitarist Charlie Sexton, and organist Augie Meyers) into an isolated dreamland soaked with spring reverb and pulsating tremolo. The stranger in these songs may be familiar, but now his visions thrum with nostalgia and regret. | | The highlights are many. A devastating acoustic demo of the OH MERCY stand-out "Most of the Time" rescues the song from Daniel Lanois's overweaning production on the original. "Red River Shore" and "Marchin' to the City"--cut from the final sequence of TIME OUT OF MIND--smolder. Two vastly different alternate versions of both the OH MERCY-era single "Dignity" and LOVE AND THEFT's "Mississippi" reveal the degree to which Dylan plumbs a song's performative possibilities. Still restless, still aching, still remarkable, TELL TALE SIGNS is yet another revelation in a career already crowded with them. |
Producer: Daniel Lanois; David Bromberg; Jack Frost; Jeff Rosen; Jeff Rosen (Compilation) |
Engineer: Mark Howard; Micajah Ryan |
Musical Guests | | Ralph Stanley |
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