Track Listing
1. Mississippi (previously unreleased)
2. Most Of The Time (alt. version)
3. Dignity (piano demo)
4. Someday Baby (alt. version)
5. Red River Shore (previously unreleased)
6. Tell Ol' Bill (alt. version/North Country)
7. Born In Time (previously unreleased)
8. Can't Wait (alt. version)
9. Everything Is Broken (alt. version)
10. Dreamin' Of You (previously unreleased)
11. Huck's Tune (Lucky You)
12. Marchin' To The City (previously unreleased)
13. High Water (For Charley Patton) (live at Niagara 2003)
1. Mississippi (version 2/previously unreleased)
2. 32 20 Blues (previously unreleased)
3. Series Of Dreams (previously unreleased)
4. God Knows (previously unreleased)
5. Can't Escape From You (previously unreleased)
6. Dignity (previously unreleased)
7. Ring Them Bells (live at the Supper Club 1993)
8. Cocaine Blues (live in Vienna VA 1997)
9. Ain't Talkin' (alt. version)
10. Girl On The Greenbriar Shore (live 1992)
11. Lonesome Day Blues (live in Sunrise FL 2002)
12. Miss The Mississippi (previously unreleased)
13. Lonesome River (Clinch Mountain Country) - Dylan, Bob & Ralph Stanley
14. 'Cross The Green Mountain (Gods & Generals)
1. Duncan And Brady (previously unreleased)
2. Cold Irons Bound (live at Bonnaroo Jun 2004)
3. Mississippi (version 3/previously unreleased)
4. Most Of The Time (alt. version 2)
5. Ring Them Bells (alt. version)
6. Things Have Changed (live in Portland OR 2000)
7. Red River Shore (version 2/previously unreleased)
8. Born In Time (version 2/previously unreleased)
9. Tryin' To Get To Heaven (live in London 2000)
10. Marchin' To The City (version 2/previously unreleased)
11. Can't Wait (alt. version 2)
12. Mary And The Soldier (previously unreleased)
| Details | | Number of CDs: | 3 | | Producer: | Daniel Lanois, David Bromberg, Jack | | Recording Type: | Mixed | | Distributor: | Sony Music/Arvato Services | | Recording Mode: | Stereo |
Album Notes
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"--incredulously cut from the final sequence of TIME OUT OF MIND--smolder. While 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.
Editorial Reviews
4.5 stars out of 5 -- TELL TALE SIGNS makes plain that Dylan knows the caprices of the world he lives in, now more than ever. Just as important, this collection bears witness to Dylan's reclamation of voice and perspective.Entertainment Weekly (p.70) - [T]he generally superb TELL TALE SIGNS repurposes known material in simple, languid, semi-acoustic settings that hark back to '70s classics like BLOOD ON THE TRACKS. -- Grade: A
Rolling Stone
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