<Ul> <Li> file </Li> <Li> help </Li> </Ul> <P> "All Along the Watchtower" is a song written and recorded by 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 . </P> <P> 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 . </P> <P> Following a motorcycle accident in July 1966, Dylan spent the next 18 months recuperating at his home in Woodstock 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 . </P>

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