• eNVee, Stacy Brooks. Bangkok Blues. Call for price.
• Leo Kottke. Birchmere. $35.
• Bill Callahan (Smog), Lights. Black Cat. $15. All ages.
• An Evening w/ Lynda Carter (Fri.-Sat.). Kennedy Center Terrace Theater. $45–$75.
• Original Tuxedo Jazz Band (Part of the Duke Ellington Jazz Festival). Kennedy Center Millennium Stage. Free.
• Apostle of Hustle, Black and Tan Fantasy Band, DJ Yellow Fever. Rock and Roll Hotel. $10/$12. All ages.
• Whale Etouffee New Orleans Band. 8 p.m. Saint’s Bourbon Street Grill. 1812 Hamlin Street, N.E. (202) 269-2150.
• Chuck Brown. The State Theatre. $25.
• Marlon Jordan (part of the Duke Ellington Jazz Fest; Fri.-Sat.). Twins Jazz. $15.
• Velodrome feat. Hotchacha. Velvet Lounge. $8. +21.
• Sunsets with a Soundtrack: The U.S. Army Concert Band w/ the Canadian Ceremonial Guard Band. West Steps U.S. Capitol. Free.
• Women's Pride Concert & Party w/ Meshell Ndegeocello, Melissa Ferrick. 9:30 club. $30.
• Gipsy Kings (Fri.-Sat.). Wolf Trap. $25-$42.

Saturday

• Beltway Rockers, Ruthi & the Tracers. Bangkok Blues. Call for price.
• Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mountain Boys. Birchmere. $35.
• Joe Lally, Glorytellers. Black Cat Backstage. $8. All ages.
• I Saw a Ghost, The Kindness of Strangers, A Sense of Urgency, Evayllia, From This Point On, When Day Breaks, This Is Our Fight, Shadow Calls. Jaxx. $10/$12.
• Thad Wilson Orchestra (Part of the Duke Ellington Jazz Festival). Kennedy Center Millennium Stage. Free.
• National Philharmonic Choral Masterworks: Rachmaninoff Vespers. Music Center at Strathmore. $39–$79.
• Meat Puppets, Retribution Gospel Choir. Rock and Roll Hotel. $16. All ages.
• Sonny Landreth. The State Theatre. $20.
• CTC, Lisa Lim Band, Omega Band. Velvet Lounge. +21.
• Eric Clapton and Steve Winwood. Verizon Center. $68–$158.
• Cowboy Mouth, Chris Barron. 9:30 club. $25. All ages.
• DJ Stereofaith. DC9. $8. +21.

Sunday

• Blues Jam w/ the Idle Americans. Bangkok Blues. Call for price.
• Sunset Rubdown, Witchies, Elfin Saddle. Black Cat. $13/$15. All ages.
• McLean Symphony: “Sounds & Sights of America.” George Mason University Center For Performing Arts. $15.
• Silver Pines, Silent Land Time Machine, Space Tigers. Velvet Lounge. $7. +21.
• The Ultimate Doo-Wop Show. Wolf Trap. $22–$40.

Apostle of Hustle photo via MySpace.

NPR Music reports that Columbia is releasing Tell Tale Signs—Volume 8 of the Bob Dylan Bootleg Series—on October 7. (Click here for full streaming audio.) The new two-disc album chronicles a period of resurgence for the poet laureate of rock 'n roll, involving several excellent bands, lots of lovely wordplay, and a tasteful minimum of proselytization.

Previous entries in the (thoroughly official and hardly bootleg) series include the 1966 Royal Albert Hall Concert (Judas, anyone?), Live 1975 (which documents the Rolling Thunder Tour), and the soundtrack from Martin Scorsese's No Direction Home.

So what's new in this iteration? Much over which to rejoice, in fact. Besides offering a far crisper sound than any of the previous seven volumes, Tell Tale Signs features solid alt-takes from Oh, Mercy ("Most of the Time" and "Everything Is Broken," especially), some fun David Bromberg and Ralph Stanley collaborations, two (two!) versions of "Mississippi" (a neat little unreleased tune left in the wake of Time Out of Mind), and a jivin' live version of "Cocaine Blues."

Listen below to "Dreamin' of You," the pre-release single also available for free download here.

Bob Dylan, "Dreamin' of You":

Photo courtesy of JL2003