Link to Song: All Along the Watchtower
Jimi Hendrix Cover: All Along the Watchtower
What you should know about this song: This rock anthem was first issued on Dylan’s John Wesley Harding album before reaching the hands of Jimi Hendrix.
“These songs on the John Wesley Harding album lack the traditional sense of time. ‘All Along the Watchtower’ opens up in a slightly different way, in a stranger way, because we have the cycle of events working in a rather reverse order.” – Bob Dylan, 1968*
*Source: “Dylan: 100 Songs and Pictures” by Fine Communications
Bob Dylan recording All Along the Watchtower in 1967. Photograph: Bettmann/Corbis Source: The Guardian
