"All Along the Watchtower" is a song by American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan from his eighth studio album, John Wesley Harding (1967). The song's lyrics feature a conversation between a joker and a thief.
Covered by numerous artists, "All Along the Watchtower" is strongly identified with the interpretation Jimi Hendrix recorded with the Jimi Hendrix Experience for their third studio album, Electric Ladyland (1968). The Hendrix version, released six months after Dylan's original recording, became a Top 20 single in 1968, and received a Grammy Hall of Fame award in 2001. Bob Dylan's live performances have been influenced by Hendrix's cover, to the extent that they have been called covers of a cover.
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