The latest volume of Bob Dylan's Bootleg Series was officially announced today, and it looks to me like the most exciting installment since the first one.
Bootleg Series Vol. 8: Tell Tale Signs will be released October 7. It's two discs of outtakes from 1989-2006, picking up right where Vol 1-3 left off. They are offering a third bonus disc as part of a "deluxe edition," although as of right now it seems like your choice is to buy the $20 regular edition or the $100 deluxe edition, which also comes with booklets and vinyls and stuffs. I hope there's a middle ground somewhere.
BobDylan.com offered a preview track, a Time Out Of Mind outtake called Dreamin' Of You. It's got lyrics that would eventually show up in Standing In The Doorway (and Cold Irons Bound and Highlands) but it's all fast-paced and spooky? It's awesome.
The song fans are most excited about is "Red River Shore," another Time Out Of Mind outtake that some people who've heard it say was the best song from those sessions.
Disc 1
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 Ol' 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) Marchin' to the City (unreleased, Time Out of Mind) High Water (for Charley Patton) (live, Niagara, N.Y., 2003)
Disc 2
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, New York, 1993) Cocaine Blues (live, Vienna, Va., 1997) Ain't Talkin' (alternate version, Modern Times) The Girl on the Greenbriar Shore (live, 1992) Lonesome Day Blues (live, Sunrise, Fla., 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 3
Duncan and Brady (unreleased, 1992) Cold Irons Bound (live, Bonnaroo Festival, 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, Ore., 2000)A 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, 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)