Who wrote the song "All Along the Watchtower"? A - Stevie Nicks
B - The Beatles
C - Bob Dylan
D - Johnny Cash
Answer: C - Bob Dylan Jimi Hendrix's "All Along the Watchtower" is widely considered one of the greatest guitar songs of all time. However, many people don't realize that it's also a cover. That's right, Jimi Hendrix didn't write the song he made famous, nor was he the first to perform it. It was folk legend Bob Dylan who wrote the song in 1967. A very different version of the song can be heard on Dylan's 1967 album "John Wesley Harding."