"All Along The Watchtower" Video Showcase

"All Along the Watchtower" is a song written by singer-songwriter Bob Dylan. It is notable for the fact that Dylan has performed this song more often in concert than any of his other compositions.

It has been estimated that by the end of 2003, Dylan had sung the song 1,400 times. It is also notable for the number of times it has been covered by different artists in different genres.

Commenting on the songs on his recently released album John Wesley Harding, in an interview published in the folk music magazine Sing Out! in October 1968, Dylan told John Cohen and Happy Traum:

"I haven't fulfilled the balladeer's job. A balladeer can sit down and sing three songs for an hour and a half... it can all unfold to you. These melodies on John Wesley Harding lack this traditional sense of time. As with the third verse of "The Wicked Messenger", which opens it up, and then the time schedule takes a jump and soon the song becomes wider... The same thing is true of the song "All Along the Watchtower", which opens up in a slightly different way, in a stranger way, for we have the cycle of events working in a rather reverse order."

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