Album: Bob Dylan, Tell Tale Signs 1989-2006 (Columbia)

Volume eight in the Bootleg Series, covering the past two decades. Which means you'll be listening to the Dylan who sings like a collapsed mountain.

Mostly it's demos and outtakes from 'Oh, Mercy' and 'Time Out of Mind', but there is an abundance of live and other offcuts spread over the two discs. Compelling. No one has better rejects. Whether you want it will depend on your devotion to the canon, but be assured that there are rocks aplenty in the clay, including two completely different takes of "Mississippi".

Pick of the album: 'Mississippi':

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