The news is out: Bob Dylan’s The Bootleg Series, Volume 8 will be released on October 7th. Edna Gunderson in USA Today has the full track listings, various details, and a video clip from a 1993 performance of Ring Them Bells: Bob Dylan reveals many facets on ‘Tell Tale Signs’.

The two-CD, 27-song set, out Oct. 7, contains previously unreleased studio recordings, demos, alternate takes, live tracks and rarities spanning 1989 to 2006, a rich period that generated the lauded Time Out of Mind, Love and Theft, Modern Times and Oh Mercy. A third 12-track disc is part of a limited-edition deluxe set in a hardcover slipcase with a book with photos of all of Dylan’s singles. The 27-song version also will be issued in a limited-edition four-LP set.

Listeners will discover a wealth of fresh material and multiple versions of songs with altered lyrics, moods and styles.

And the BobDylan.com site has been revamped and relaunched once again. You can get an mp3 of the previously unreleased Dreamin’ Of You (a new single!) there after jumping through a few hoops. It includes many lines that were later used in Standin’ In The Doorway.

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Addendum: And let’s include the track list here too.

Note that the release is coming as a basic 2-CD set and then also as a deluxe hardcover 3-CD set. So the third disc listed here is only for you deluxe types.

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 from 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)

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