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Everybody Loves Bob Dylan
LONDON TIMES: “...five stars out of 5”
Music writers from around the country talk about the best album of 2008: Tell Tale Signs
THE INDEPENDENT, LONDON: “...
it’s a remarkable collection, as racked
by/por: J. M. De Luna
with doubt and disillusion as one
might expect, yet defiantly exposing
the vulnerabilities and irritations that
provoke pearls such as ‘High Water’
and ‘Ain’t Talkin’.”
VARIETY: “ ... like its predecessors,
the new bootleg series release is a
collection of distinction -- as essential
to his canon as any release that
preceded it.”
USA TODAY: “...less a time capsule
of vault remnants than a fresh
summation of Bob Dylan’s modern
times, Tell Tale Signs reveals the
67-year-old legend at the peak of
After few months of his releasing date Tell already had a lot of it. (Shhh, don’t tell the feds.)
his powers, ruminating on lost love,
Tale Signs seems to keep hitting the right
Excitingly, Tell Tale Signs jumps decades ahead to
pondering mortality and trying to
notes with some of rock’s most distinguished
offer an alternate history of a less leaky period: the
make sense of a broken society...this
journalists:
creative renaissance that started at the end of the
is no museum archive. It’s another
1980s and has been bearing fruit ever since. side of a master songwriter and
spellbinding performer.”
Rolling Stone’s Mikal Gilmore:
The Telegraph’s David Cheal:
Tell Tale Signs is less an anthology than an album
SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE: “...
there had never been anything quite
in its own right. It seems designed to tell a story
There’s stuff here that leaves the listener wondering:
like Bob Dylan in the 1960s, and
that sharpens and expands the vista of mortal
why have we never heard this before? What possessed
there’s nothing quite like him today.”
and cultural disintegration that has been the chief
him, for instance, to excise Red River Shore from
theme of 1997’s Time Out of Mind, 2001’s Love
his Time Out of Mind album? It’s a haunting classic.
LOS ANGELES TIMES: “Tell Tale Signs:
and Theft, and 2006’s Modern Times - perhaps the
Ditto the wistful Born in Time (from the Oh Mercy
The Bootleg Series Vol. 8 is a rich,
most daring music he’s ever made. Tell Tale Signs
sessions)...what’s captured here is the restless,
revealing look at how this master
makes plain that Dylan knows the caprices of the
questing creative spirit of the man. He never stops. songwriter put together one of the
world he lives in, now more than ever.
most dramatic creative renaissances in
The BBC’s Chris Jones:
pop history. Tell Tale Signs is not just
‘extra’ Dylan. It’s essential Dylan.”
Los Angeles Times’ Robert Hilburn:
If you love the trilogy of Time Out Of Mind, Love
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: “Excitingly,
Bob Dylan’s latest collection of material from his
And Theft and Modern Times you’re going to adore
Tell Tale Signs jumps decades ahead
musical back pages, “Tell Tale Signs: The Bootleg Series
this. It lays bare the process that led Dylan to not
to offer an alternate history of ... the
Vol. 8,” is a rich, revealing look at how this master
only revisit the work that got him fired up in the
creative renaissance that started at
songwriter put together one of the most dramatic
first place but remake them in his own image: the
the end of the 1980s and has been
creative renaissances in pop history....”Tell Tale Signs” is
Carter Family (Tell Ol’ Bill) amongst many others...
bearing fruit ever since...the generally
not just “extra” Dylan. It’s essential Dylan.
As a companion to his best work from the period
superb Tell Tale Signs repurposes
this is essential. It even stands as a fine album on
known material in simple, languid,
Entertainment Weekly’s Chris Willmans:
its own—the work of a man obviously in love with
semi-acoustic settings that hark back
his muse once more, and totally unafraid of fessin’ to ‘70s classics like Blood on the
Only one set of archival releases can compare
up to his roots. Beautiful, brave and beguiling.
Tracks.”
to Bob Dylan’s ‘’Bootleg Series’’ in the annals of
popular music, and that would be the Beatles’ Associated Press’s David Bauder:
BLENDER: “Genius...”
Anthology collections, which similarly gave the
ROLLING STONE: “...Tell Tale Signs is
world a window onto a great recording act’s studio
There had never been anything quite like Bob Dylan
less an anthology than an album in
outtakes. But with the Fab Four, you always get the
in the 1960s, and there’s nothing quite like him
its own right. It seems designed to
feeling that there was only one possible perfect
today...Once he burned with revolutionary fervor,
tell a story that sharpens and expands
version of each song; the fascination lies in hearing
songs spilling out of a man in a hurry. Now, at age
the vista of mortal and cultural
how certain numbers become classics due to some
67, he’s a walking history book of the United States,
disintegration that has been the chief
final, transcendent tweak. Listening to Dylan’s
keeping alive stories and musical styles that might
theme of 1997’s Time Out of Mind,
discards, though, there’s little sense of honing or
otherwise be forgotten. His work has grace and 2001’s ‘Love and Theft’, and 2006’s
averted near misses; his cuttingroom-floor takes
majesty, and the breadth of his late-career resurgence Modern Times - perhaps the most
are usually completely viable alternatives to the
is better illustrated in this collection than on any of his
daring music he’s ever made. Tell Tale
official renditions....The last two ‘’Bootleg’’ releases
individual albums....For Bob Dylan, these are outtakes.
Signs makes plain that Dylan knows
focused on Dylan’s mid-’60s heyday...but true fans
Most musicians would call them their greatest hits. n
the caprices of the world he lives in,
now more than ever.”
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