Understanding All Along The Watchtower

What makes a great cover song? It's a hard question to answer, so let's take a look at the greatest cover song ever made and work back from there. All Along The Watchtower was already a good song when Bob Dylan recorded it, but it wouldn't become truly legendary until Jimi Hendrix took his shot. Hendrix transformed it from a bizarre, folky mystery into a transcendent commentary on the world around him. He made the song so thoroughly his own that even Dylan himself has conceded to it, and I want to talk about how he did that.

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