The first review it seems. From Casper Llewellyn Smith in Britain’s Observer:

How does this treasure trove make us reconsider that Dylan? Among 27 tracks there is room for two versions of ‘Mississippi’ from the Time Out of Mind sessions with producer Daniel Lanois - and the first in particular is wondrous: performed acoustically, it features Dylan singing beautifully, beguilingly, pursuing the key sentiment: ‘But my heart is not weary, it’s light and it’s free.’ And you understand why it didn’t make the cut on the album (but did surface reconceived on ‘Love And Theft’). Likewise, ‘Red River Shore’, among Dylanologists, the most eagerly awaited song on Tell Tale Signs. The narrative unrolls over almost fully seven minutes, and touches delightfully, mysteriously, on matters theological (’I heard of a guy who lived a long time ago… that if someone around him died and was dead he knew how to bring ‘em on back to life’); and at the end, Dylan the great storyteller finds a note of optimism: ’sometimes I think no one ever saw me here at all/ except the girl from the red river shore’.

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