All Along the Watchtower All Over the World

All Along the Watchtower written by Bob Dylan, but made famous by Jimi Hendrix  is performed by musicians around the world in this youtube video from Playing for Change.  Music is the language that tells the story of our connections. So take a listen and feel the story.

Playing for Change founder Mark Johnson describes how he envisioned this project:

I remember having a daydream about the opening acoustic guitar part of 

“All Along The Watchtower” ending with a Native American scream and a big native drum on the downbeat. That was the spark to assemble one of our biggest and deepest Songs Around The World. From Beirut to New Orleans to the Lakota Nation musicians play and sing like a musical army determined to stop suffering and greed all over the world. As a society we need to get back to our roots and connect deeper with our ancestors and native people in general so we can find the wisdom we need to move forward as a human race. 

As Jimi Hendrix once said, “If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.”

All Along the Watchtower is one of the 12 songs on the new album Listen to the Music that Playing for Change has just released.  You can learn more about the album here.