Detailed item info | Track listing | DISC 1:
1. Mississippi [Unreleased, Time Out Of Mine] - (previously unreleased)
2. Most Of The Time [Alternate Version, Oh Mercy] - (previously unreleased, alternate take)
3. Dignity [Piano Demo, Oh Mercy] - (previously unreleased)
4. Someday Baby [Alternate Version, Modern Times] - (previously unreleased, alternate take)
5. Red River Shore [Unreleased, Time Out Of Mind] - (previously unreleased)
6. Tell Ol' Bill [Alternate Version, North Country Soundtrack] - (previously unreleased, alternate take)
7. Born In Time [Unreleased, Oh Mercy] - (previously unreleased)
8. Can't Wait [Alternate Version, Time Out Of Mind] - (previously unreleased, alternate take)
9. Everything Is Broken [Alternatve Version, Oh Mercy] - (previously unreleased, alternate take)
10. Dreamin' Of You [Unreleased, Time Out Of Mind] - (previously unreleased)
11. Huck's Tune [From Lucky You Soundtrack]
12. Marchin' To The City [Unreleased, Time Out Of Mind] - (previously unreleased)
13. High Water (For Charley Patton) [Live, 2003] - (previously unreleased, live)
DISC 2:
1. Mississippi [Unreleased Version #2, Time Out Of Mind] - (previously unreleased)
2. 32-20 Blues [Unreleased, World Gone Wrong] - (previously unreleased)
3. Series Of Dreams [Unreleased, Oh Mercy] - (previously unreleased)
4. God Knows [Unreleased, Oh Mercy] - (previously unreleased)
5. Can't Escape From You [Unreleased, December 2005] - (previously unreleased)
6. Dignity [Unreleased, Oh Mercy] - (previously unreleased)
7. Ring Them Bells [Live At The Supper Club, 1993] - (previously unreleased, live)
8. Cocaine Blues [Live, 1997] - (previously unreleased, live)
9. Ain't Talkin' [Alternate Version. Modern Times] - (previously unreleased, alternate take)
10. Girl On The Greenbriar Shore [Live, 1992], The - (previously unreleased, live)
11. Lonesome Day Blues [Live, 2002] - (previously unreleased, live)
12. Miss The Mississippi [Unreleased, 1992] - (previously unreleased)
13. Lonesome River, The - (featuring Ralph Stanley)
14. 'Cross The Green Mountain (From Gods And Generals Soundtrack)
| | Details | | Contributing artists: | Ralph Stanley | | Producer: | Daniel Lanois, David Bromberg, Jack Frost, Jeff Rosen (Compilation), Jeff Rosen | | Distributor: | Sony Music Distribution ( | | Recording type: | Studio | | Recording mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
| | Album notes | Personnel: Bob Dylan (vocals, guitar, harp, harmonica, piano, organ); Ralph Stanley (vocals, guitar, banjo); Donnie Heron (guitar, steel guitar); Daniel Lanois (guitar, dobro, organ); Glen Lowe, Dave Bromberg, Robert Britt, Tom Morrongiello, David Bromberg, Denny Freeman, Duke Robillard, Freddie Koella, Freddy Koella, James Shelton, John Jackson, Larry Campbell, 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 (keyboard, keyboards); Robert Amiot, Tony Hall, Tony Garnier (bass instrument, bass guitar); Jack Cooke (upright bass); Winston Johnson, 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.
Recording information: Sterling Sound, NY (2008).
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.
| | Editorial reviews | 4 stars out of 5 -- The overriding lesson from these TELL TALE SIGNS is of Bob's immaculate role as performer. There is no one 'final version' of a track -- just the one that happens to make sense on the day.
Record Collector
4 stars out of 5 -- Dylan's second album with Lanois, TIME OUT OF MIND, is represented by a nice, slow blues alternative take of 'Can't Wait' and four songs that didn't make the final cut....Top prizes go to gutbucket 'Lonesome Day Blues' and harmony-laden 'Cocaine Blues'...
Mojo
[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
Entertainment Weekly
Ranked #2 in Rolling Stone's 50 Best Albums Of 2008 -- The veering tempers of Dylan's medicine-rattle rasp are a wonder to themselves.
Rolling Stone
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.
Rolling Stone
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