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East Village Radio Celebrates Bob Dylan On His 70th Birthday

Listen to Rolling Stone's Austin Scaggs share his favorite Dylan bootlegs

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May 24, 2011 2:10 PM ET
East Village Radio Celebrates Bob Dylan On His 70th Birthday
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The Internet radio station East Village Radio is marking Bob Dylan's 70th birthday today with six hours of special Dylan content. At 2 p.m., Clash magazine editor Simon Harper is presenting Dylan A-Z, when he'll play music from the singer-songwriter that relates to every letter from the alphabet. At 4 p.m. Rolling Stone Contributing Editor Austin Scaggs will share his favorite Dylan bootlegs, and at 6 p.m. Chances With Wolves will play their favorite Dylan covers – such as Sam Cooke's "Blowin' In The Wind" and The Isley Brothers' "Lay Lady Lay." Listen live at www.eastvillageradio.com.

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“All Along the Watchtower”

The Jimi Hendrix Experience | 1968

Jimi Hendrix got hold of Bob Dylan's early John Wesley Harding tapes and in late 1967 recorded a version of "All Along the Watchtower" with the Experience in London. Dissatisfied with that first development, Hendrix brought those tapes with him to New York in early 1968 when he began work on Electric Ladyland. Eddie Kramer, Hendrix's engineer at the time, told Rolling Stone that Hendrix "was still looked upon by his basically white audience as the mammoth black guitar hero. There was a constant fight within him to expand himself." Hendrix's successful take on Dylan's work has long been recognized by the songwriter. "I liked Jimi Hendrix's record of this and ever since he died I've been doing it that way," Dylan wrote in the liner notes to his Biograph box set. "Strange how when I sing it, I always feel it's a tribute to him in some kind of way."

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