Dylan recorded two different takes that resulted in the final version for the 1967 album. While the recording of the track was released to mixed reviews, critics did note that the song "brought out Dylan's talent for imagery."
Six months after Dylan's album release, Jimi Hendrix his band, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, began working on a recording of "All Along the Watchtower" in January of 1968. Originally the band was going to record "I Dreamed I Saw St. Augustine" but changed this to "All Along the Watchtower" after listening to reel-to-reel tapes of unreleased recordings by Dylan.
Dylan was heavily moved by Hendrix's interpretation of "All Along the Watchtower" saying in 1995, "It overwhelmed me, really. He had such talent, he could find things inside a song and vigorously develop them. He found things that other people wouldn't think of finding in there. He probably improved upon it by the spaces he was using. I took license with the song from his version, actually, and continue to do it to this day."
In 2001, the Jimi Hendrix version of the track was given a Grammy Hall of Fame Award. His version was also ranked at number 40 of Rolling Stones' "500 Greatest Songs of All Time."
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