Reading the Signs By Amanda on July 30, 2008 2:29 PM | Permalink
bobdylan.com has undergone a nifty redesign including the Dylan Geo feature which allows you to access tour information by city and ... some "blogs" but I don't know what that's all about. Can anyone do one? Anyway, the push is also all part of the next installment of the Bootleg Series, Tell Tale Signs. I almost preordered the deluxe package until I saw they were going to charge me $40 postage. I strongly doubt that is reasonable.
The track list is as follows. Some interesting stuff, although many double ups for tragics. Haven't had time to seek professional opinions - like, what's the difference between this "Series of Dreams" and the one on Bootleg Series 1-3? I guess I can put up with yet another version of Dignity for the promising outtakes from World Gone Wrong and Time of Out Mind.
Update: I've had a little play with the social networking aspects of the new site. You can create playlists which will stream in full, do blog entries (but no comments!), comment on gigs and so on. Seems pretty well put together and easy to use. You can download a free song Dreamin' of You, an outtake from TOOM, which features some lyrical snatches familiar from Standing In the Doorway.
Disc One
Mississippi (Unreleased, Time Out Of Mind)
Most of the Time (Alternate version, Oh Mercy)
Dignity (Piano demo, Oh Mercy)
Someday Baby (Alternate version, Modern Times)
Red River Shore (Unreleased, Time Out Of Mind)
Tell 'Ole Bill (Alternate version, North Country Soundtrack)
Born in Time (Unreleased, Oh Mercy)
Can't Wait (Alternate version, Time Out Of Mind)
Everything is Broken (Alternate version, Oh Mercy)
Dreamin' of You (Unreleased, Time Out Of Mind)
Huck's Tune (From Lucky You soundtrack)
Marching to the City (Unreleased, Time Out Of Mind)
High Water (For Charley Patton) (Live, Niagara, 2003)
Disc Two
Mississippi (Unreleased version #2, Time Out Of Mind)
32-20 Blues (Unreleased, World Gone Wrong)
Series of Dreams (Unreleased, Oh Mercy)
God Knows (Unreleased, Oh Mercy)
Can't Escape From You (Unreleased, December 2005)
Dignity (Unreleased, Oh Mercy)
Ring Them Bells (Live at the Supper Club, 1993)
Cocaine Blues (Live, Vienna, Virginia, 1997)
Ain't Talkin' (Alternate version, Modern Times)
The Girl On The Greenbriar Shore (Live, 1992)
Lonesome Day Blues (Live, Sunrise, Florida, 2002)
Miss the Mississippi (Unreleased, 1992)
The Lonesome River (With Ralph Stanley, from Clinch Mountain Country)
'Cross The Green Mountain (From Gods And Generals Soundtrack)
Disc Three
Duncan And Brady (Unreleased, 1992)
Cold Irons Bound (Live, Bonnaroo, June 2004)
Mississippi (Unreleased version #3, Time Out Of Mind)
Most Of The Time (Alternate version #2, Oh Mercy)
Ring Them Bells (Alternate version, Oh Mercy)
Things Have Changed (Live, Portland, Oregon, 2000)
Red River Shore (Unreleased version #2, Time Out Of Mind)
Born In Time (Unreleased version #2, Oh Mercy)
Tryin' To Get To Heaven (Live, London, England, 2000)
Marchin' To The City (Unreleased version #2, Time Out Of Mind)
Can't Wait (Alternate version #2, Time Out Of Mind)
Mary And The Soldier (Unreleased, World Gone Wrong)
