Jeff’s Playlist: ‘The Bootleg Series’

The Bootleg Series Vol. 8: Tell Tale Signs: Rare and Unreleased 1989–2006

This was a good time for Dylan’s music. His voice may have got­ten a bit raspy, but he was writ­ing a lot of good songs.

As usu­al, infor­ma­tion is from Wikipedia, and music is from YouTube.

Track list­ing

All tracks are writ­ten by Bob Dylan, except where noted.

Disc one

No.      Title     Origin Length
1.         “Mississippi”             Unreleased, Time Out of Mind       6:04
2.         “Most of the Time”    Alternate ver­sion, Oh Mercy           3:46
3.         “Dignity”                     Piano demo, Oh Mercy                   2:09
4.         “Someday Baby”      Alternate ver­sion, Modern Times   5:56
5.         “Red River Shore”    Unreleased, Time Out of Mind       7:36
6.         “Tell Ol’ Bill”              Alternate ver­sion of song released on the North Country sound­track 5:31
7.         “Born in Time”           Unreleased, Oh Mercy        4:10
8.         “Can’t Wait”               Alternate ver­sion, Time Out of Mind         5:45
9.         “Everything Is Broken”        Alternate ver­sion, Oh Mercy           3:27
10.       “Dreamin’ of You”                 Unreleased, Time Out of Mind       5:54
11.       “Huck’s Tune”                       From the Lucky You sound­track    4:09
12.       “Marchin’ to the City”           Unreleased, Time Out of Mind       6:36
13.       “High Water (For Charley Patton)” Live, August 23, 2003, Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada 6:40

Total length:   67:43

Disc two

No.      Title     Writer(s)         Origin Length
1.         “Mississippi”            Alternate ver­sion 2, Time Out of Mind      6:24
2.         “32−20 Blues”            Robert Johnson        Unreleased, World Gone Wrong   4:22
3.         “Series of Dreams”  Unreleased, Oh Mercy        6:27
4.         “God Knows”            Unreleased, Oh Mercy        3:12
5.         “Can’t Escape from You”     Unreleased, December 2005 record­ing   5:22
6.         “Dignity”                                Unreleased, Oh Mercy        5:25
7.         “Ring Them Bells”               Live at the Supper Club, November 17, 1993, New York, NY 4:59
8.         “Cocaine Blues”                   T. J. “Red” Arnall      Live, August 24, 1997, Vienna, VA 4:40
9.         “Ain’t Talkin’ ”                        Alternate ver­sion, Modern Times   6:13
10.       “The Girl on the Greenbriar Shore”           A. P. Carter    Live, June 30, 1992, Dunkerque, France 2:51
11.       “Lonesome Day Blues”                  Live, February 1, 2002, Sunrise, FL         7:37
12.       “Miss the Mississippi”         Bill Halley      Unreleased, 1992    3:20
13.       “The Lonesome River”        Ralph Stanley, Carter Stanley        Clinch Mountain Country, Ralph Stanley 3:04
14.       “ ‘Cross the Green Mountain”                     from the Gods and Generals sound­track 8:15

Total length:   72:11

Disc three (deluxe edition)

No.      Title     Writer(s)                     Origin Length
1.         “Duncan & Brady”                tra­di­tion­al       Unreleased, 1992    3:47
2.         “Cold Irons Bound”             Live at Bonnaroo, 2004       5:57
3.         “Mississippi”                        Alternate ver­sion No. 3, Time Out of Mind           6:24
4.         “Most of the Time”               Alternate ver­sion No. 2, Oh Mercy            5:10
5.         “Ring Them Bells”               Alternate ver­sion, Oh Mercy           3:18
6.         “Things Have Changed”     Live, June 15, 2000, Portland, OR           5:32
7.         “Red River Shore”               Unreleased ver­sion No. 2, Time Out of Mind      7:08
8.         “Born in Time”                      Unreleased ver­sion No. 2, Oh Mercy        4:19
9.         “Tryin’ to Get to Heaven”    Live, October 5, 2000, London, England 5:10
10.       “Marchin’ to the City”           Unreleased ver­sion No. 2, Time Out of Mind 3:39
11.       “Can’t Wait”                          Alternate ver­sion No. 2, Time Out of Mind           7:24
12.       “Mary and the Soldier”        Traditional     Unreleased, World Gone Wrong   4:23

Total length:   62:11

Released       October 6, 2008
Recorded       1989–2006
Length            137:07
Label              Columbia
Produce         Bob DylanDaniel Lanois