Listen: Fistful of Mercy's 'As I Call You Down'

Click to listen to Fistful Of Mercy's As I Call You Down.

We've already introduced you to the new supergroup Fistful of Mercy and took you behind the scenes of their new single "Father's Son". Now Rolling Stone has Ben Harper, Dhani Harrison and Joseph Arthur's entire debut album As I Call You Down streaming here before its release next Tuesday, October 5th. Listen to the LP above, and check out Fistful of Mercy on tour starting November 9th in Seattle. (Full dates here.)

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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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