As we previously reported, the eighth volume in Bob Dylan’s rarities-compiling ‘Bootleg Series,’ entitled Tell Tale Signs, arrives October 7 via Columbia with outtakes and rare cuts from the last two decades of the songwriter’s illustrious career. Among the tracklist: An alternate version of “Mississippi,” available as a free download now via Amazon.com.
Click here to feast your ears on the stripped-down version of the track — originally found on 2001’s Love and Theft — and hold tight for the rest of the Tambourine Man’s rarities collection to arrive next month.
(Added bonus: For a free download of a Wilco & Fleet Foxes cover version ofDylan’s “I Shall Be Released,” visit wilcoworld.net/vote.)
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