Did Bob Dylan write "All Along the Watchtower"?!
Question: Always thought of it as a Hendrix song, but Bob Dylan wrote everything he sang, right? And I just stumbed across him doing this song.
Answers: Always thought of it as a Hendrix song, but Bob Dylan wrote everything he sang, right? And I just stumbed across him doing this song.
Yes, he wrote it.
The Hendrix cover is one of many.
Not true to say that Dylan wrote everything he sang, though. In his early days he covered a whole heap of other artists, like Woody Guthrie, and even later in his career he covered Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" and many other songs.
Good list of other covers of "All Along The Watchtower" -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Along_t...
Yes, Dylan wrote that song. Lots of Dylan songs have been covered by other artists and "All Along the Watchtower" is one.
yes and funny, I never heard the Dylan version itself, but know he wrote it -- as for Henrix version, my favorite & think it's the best he did --
Bob Dylan by-the-way on today's Yahoo page; I have his 1st LP, Free-Wheeling, c 1962 -- in earlier days, it was said, he 'whining his way to alienation' -- still performing at the age of 113 or something
Yes he wrote it and liked it better when Hendrix sang it
yes bob wrote it jimmy hendrex recorded it