Bob Dylan’s award-winning XM music show, “Theme Time Radio Hour,” will launch its highly-anticipated third season on Wednesday, October 8 at 10:00am (ET).  In what promises to be a banner week for Bob Dylan fans, Tell Tale Signs – the 8th installment in the best-selling and critically heralded Bootleg Series which launched 1991 – is in stores today, October 7.
The advance critical response to Tell Tale Signs has been overwhelmingly ecstatic:
Robert Hilburn, writing in the Los Angeles Times (September 30, 2008), observed that “Tell Tale Signs: The Bootleg Series Vol. 8 is a rich, revealing look at …read more

Bob Dylan Tell Tale signs: The Bootleg Series Vol. 8 Rare And Unreleased 1989-2006 comes out this Tuesday October 7th on Columbia Recordings. Let me begin my review by saying this: Now if I sat here and told you that I was a long time Bob Dylan fan, I would be lying through my teeth. The fact is that I have only heard a handful of Dylan’s work. I’ve seen him perform on some VH1 Classics shows from way back but I was never really interested in buying any of his music. The respect for his musicianship and his …read more

NPR Music – www.NPR.org/music – is exclusively streaming Tell Tale Signs, the highly-anticipated forthcoming album from Bob Dylan, as of Tuesday, September 30 at midnight, one week ahead of the album’s release on October 7.  The entire 2-CD, 27-song set will be available to hear on-demand at NPR Music for the week leading up to its official release.
Tell Tale Signs is the 8th installment in Dylan’s “Bootleg Series,” and features previously unreleased recordings, live performances and alternate versions of songs recorded during sessions for some of his most acclaimed albums, Oh Mercy and Time Out of Mind among them.  …read more

Columbia Records today announced the U.S. premiere of the Bob Dylan song “Mississippi”, exclusively available as a free download for a limited time on www.amazon.com/mp3.  “Mississippi”, previously unreleased domestically in this form, will be commercially available on October 7, 2008 as part of Bob Dylan’s Tell Tale Signs – The Bootleg Series Vol. 8.
Originally recorded for the Grammy Award-winning Time Out of Mind album in 1997, a drastically different rendering of “Mississippi” finally made its appearance on 2001’s “Love and Theft”.  The version found on Tell Tale Signs, likely one of the first takes of the song recorded, can …read more

Billboard.com reports that Bob Dylan will be releasing a 3 disc set of rarities called “Tell Tale Signs” on October 7 through Columbia Records.
“The track list goes heavy on the past 20 years of Dylan’s career, including a number of unreleased songs and alternate versions stemming from sessions for “Time Out of Mind,” “Modern Times,” “Oh Mercy” and “World Gone Wrong.”
A number of soundtrack contributions can be found here too, including “Huck’s Tune” from “Lucky You,” “‘Cross the Green Mountain” from “Gods and Generals” and the Ralph Stanley collaboration “The Lonesome River” from “Clinch Mountain Country.”
Live tracks from Bonnaroo 2004, …read more