Hear Dr. Dog's New "Stranger" From April LP "Shame, Shame"

Philly rockers Dr. Dog are returning April 6th with their sixth album Shame, Shame and Rolling Stone has a first listen to lead-off track (and latest single!) "Stranger" right here. The quintet will be hitting up Late Night With Jimmy Fallon the day the disc hits stores, but first they're jetting down to next week's SXSW fest in Austin. Get a preview of all the upcoming action now:

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Song Stories

“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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