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All Along The Watchtower

"All Along the Watchtower"
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Single by Bob Dylan
from the album John Wesley Harding
B-side "I'll Be Your Baby Tonight"
Released November 22, 1968
Recorded November 6, 1967
Genre Folk rock
Length 2:31
Label Columbia
Writer(s) Bob Dylan
Producer(s) Bob Johnston
Bob Dylan singles chronology
"Drifter's Escape"
(1968)
"All Along the Watchtower"
(1968)
"I Threw It All Away"
(1969)
John Wesley Harding track listing
Music sample
"All Along the Watchtower"
All Along the Watchtower single cover.jpg
European single cover
Single by The Jimi Hendrix Experience
from the album Electric Ladyland
B-side US "Burning of the Midnight Lamp"
UK "Long Hot Summer Night"
EU+JP "Can You See Me"
Released September 21, 1968 (US)
October 18, 1968 (UK)
October 1968 (EU and JP)
Recorded January 1968
Olympic Studios, London;
June–August 1968
Record Plant Studios, NYC
Genre Psychedelic rock, hard rock, blues rock
Length 4:00
Label Reprise, Track, Polydor
Writer(s) Bob Dylan
Producer(s) Jimi Hendrix
The Jimi Hendrix Experience singles chronology
"Up from the Skies"
(1968)
"All Along the Watchtower"
(1968)
"Crosstown Traffic"
(1968)

"All Along the Watchtower" is a song written and recorded by the American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan. The song initially appeared on his 1967 album John Wesley Harding, and it has been included on most of Dylan's subsequent greatest hits compilations. Since the late 1970s, he has performed it in concert more than any of his other songs. Different versions appear on four of Dylan's live albums.

Covered by numerous artists in various genres, "All Along the Watchtower" is strongly identified with the interpretation Jimi Hendrix recorded for Electric Ladyland with the Jimi Hendrix Experience. The Hendrix version, released six months after Dylan's original recording, became a Top 20 single in 1968 and was ranked 47th in Rolling Stone magazine's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.

Following a motorcycle accident in July 1966, Dylan spent the next 18 months recuperating at his home in and writing songs. According to Clinton Heylin, all the songs for John Wesley Harding were written and recorded during a six-week period at the end of 1967. With one child born in early 1966 and another in mid-1967, Dylan had settled into family life.

Dylan recorded "All Along the Watchtower" on November 6, 1967, at Columbia Studio A in Nashville, Tennessee, the same studio where he had completed Blonde on Blonde in the spring of the previous year. Accompanying Dylan, who played acoustic guitar and harmonica, were two Nashville veterans from the Blonde on Blonde sessions, Charlie McCoy on bass guitar and Kenneth Buttrey on drums. The producer was Bob Johnston, who produced Dylan's two previous albums, Highway 61 Revisited in 1965 and Blonde on Blonde in 1966.


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