“Jimi got it into his head that he wanted to do All Along the Watchtower. He said to me, ‘That’s the coolest song! …You want to come and do it with me?’” When Dave Mason met Jimi Hendrix and played on the greatest cover of all time

Good times in 1967: Dave Mason hanging out with the Jimi Hendrix Experience.

The list of credits and collaborations that the late Traffic guitarist and session legend Dave Mason chalked up over a storied life of musical triumphs is all kinds of incredible.

The Rolling Stones, George Harrison, Michael Jackson, Fleetwood Mac… Where do you stop? Eric Clapton, Delaney & Bonnie, Graham Nash… the list goes on and it of course includes some era-defining work with Jimi Hendrix that would give us, arguably, the greatest cover song of all time, All Along the Watchtower.