Kid Rock, Keith Richards Help Induct Crickets, Muscle Shoals Into Musicians Hall of Fame

Booker T. and the MGs, Duane Eddy, the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section and Buddy Holly's band the Crickets were all inducted into the Musicians Hall of Fame at a ceremony last night in Nashville. Keith Richards and Kid Rock were both on hand to help welcome in the new inductees. Richards introduced the Crickets, saying if it weren't for the band "you probably wouldn't have the Beatles, and you wouldn't have the Stones." Richards later joined the Crickets on stage for a performance of Holly's "Not Fade Away," which the Rolling Stones covered in 1964. Kid Rock teamed up with the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Club for a cover of Bob Seger's "Old Time Rock and Roll," while American Idol contestant Melissa Doolittle joined the Alabama collective on Aretha Franklin's "Respect." Also inducted in the Musicians Hall were the Memphis Horns and producers Al Kooper and Billy Sherrill.

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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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