The Roots Set to Debut New Song Tonight on "Fallon"

The Roots will double as house band and musical guest on tonight's episode of Late Night With Jimmy Fallon, when the hip-hop collective debut the title track from their upcoming album How I Got Over on the show, Billboard.com reports. Originally slotted for a summer release, How I Got Over will instead hit stores October 20th. "The Roots will announce that WE are pushing back our 11th project How I Got Over (def jam/universal) until Oct. it shall be worth the wait," ?uestlove wrote on his beloved Twitter.

According to Billboard.com, other songs that will feature on the album include "Walk Alone," "The Day" featuring Icelandic singer Patty Crash and a cover of Frank Zappa's Hot Rats' classic "Peaches En Regalia." The Roots will also reportedly include a version of Cody Chesnutt's "Serve This Royalty," the sixth track on Chesnutt's The Headphone Masterpiece. That album's seventh track, "The Seed," was also rerecorded by the Roots, with the band turning "The Seed (2.0)" into the biggest hit on their 2002 album Phrenology.

Starting this Friday, June 27th, the Roots will navigate away from Fallon's set and head out to play some dates on this year's nomadic Rock the Bells festival. The Roots will also host jam sessions nearly every Tuesday night this summer at New York's Highline Ballroom. Anyone who attended this year's Roots Picnic in Philadelphia can attest that these jam sessions are must-see events. Check the Roots' tour dates over at their MySpace page.

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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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