When Two Weathered Voices Met: Neil Diamond’s One Good Love With Waylon Jennings Was the Quiet Heart of 1996’s Tennessee Moon
A mature country duet about love finally earned rather than easily found, “One Good Love”...
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A Lifetime in 3 CDs: Neil Diamond’s 2017 50th Anniversary Collection Turns Hits Into a Life Story
Released as a 2017 3CD anniversary retrospective, Neil Diamond‘s 50th Anniversary Collection does far more...
The Sequel Few Dared Hope For: Neil Diamond’s Hot August Night II Still Burned in 1987
Hot August Night II was more than a sequel in name; it was Neil Diamond...
The Night TV Became a Concert Hall: How Neil Diamond’s 1977 NBC Special Made Love at the Greek Feel Like a Coronation
Before it became a No. 1 live double album, Love at the Greek was a...
The No. 2 Title Track That Spoke Softly: Why Neil Diamond’s Stones Still Hits So Deep
Stones turns hurt into something heavier than heartbreak, revealing how loneliness can harden the spirit...
The Last Rubin Chapter: Neil Diamond’s Wild At Heart Arrives May 8 With Late-Career Weight
Wild At Heart feels like Neil Diamond returning to the quiet center of his art,...
The Quiet No. 1 Triumph: How Neil Diamond’s Hello Again Became The Jazz Singer Ballad That Ruled Adult Contemporary
With Hello Again, Neil Diamond turned a late-night greeting into one of 1980’s most tender...
Before the Big Anthems, Neil Diamond’s You Got to Me Was the 1967 Hit That Let His Guard Down
Before the arena-sized choruses, You Got to Me captured Neil Diamond in the deeply human...
A Roll Call That Still Hurts: Neil Diamond’s Done Too Soon and the Strange Power of 1971’s Stones
Done Too Soon turns a breathless list of famous names into something deeper and more...
After 40 Years, the Quiet Song That Changed Everything: Neil Diamond’s Pretty Amazing Grace and the No. 1 Rise of Home Before Dark
Pretty Amazing Grace gave Neil Diamond one of his most moving late-career statements, and on...
Before Elvis Heard It, Neil Diamond’s ‘And the Grass Won’t Pay No Mind’ Gave 1969 One of Its Softest Heartaches
Before Elvis Presley carried it into a different spotlight, Neil Diamond‘s 1969 original of And...
The Quiet No. 1 of 1975: Neil Diamond’s I’ve Been This Way Before Gave Serenade Its Deepest Moment
A song of emotional deja vu and hard-won grace, I’ve Been This Way Before found...
The Song That Turned Night Into Freedom: Neil Diamond’s Thank the Lord for the Night Time Hit No. 13 in 1967
A celebration of evening freedom, Thank the Lord for the Night Time turns the end...
Before Barbra, the Silence Cut Deeper: Neil Diamond’s 1977 You Don’t Bring Me Flowers on I’m Glad You’re Here with Me Tonight
Before it became a legendary duet, You Don’t Bring Me Flowers was a solitary confession....
The Lost 1971 Bridge: Neil Diamond’s Walk on Water Between Tap Root Manuscript and Stones
Walk on Water caught Neil Diamond in one of those rare in-between moments when an...
The Quiet Triumph of Neil Diamond’s Desiree, the 1977 Easy Listening No. 1 Few Fans Talk About
Desiree is one of those Neil Diamond songs that does not plead for attention, yet...
That Curious 1970 Detour: Neil Diamond’s Soolaimon Stopped at No. 30 but Opened a Bigger Sound
A modest hit on paper, Soolaimon showed how boldly Neil Diamond was willing to leave...
Before the Reggae Glow, Neil Diamond’s 1967 Red Red Wine on Just for You Was Pure Heartbreak
Before it found a second life in reggae, Red Red Wine was one of Neil...
A Quiet Song Became a Revelation: Neil Diamond’s Morningside at the Greek Theatre on Hot August Night 1972
On Hot August Night, Neil Diamond turned Morningside into something larger than a song: a...
Before The Jazz Singer, Neil Diamond’s September Morn Became the No. 1 Farewell to His 1970s Romantic Peak
September Morn is one of Neil Diamond’s most graceful songs about time, memory, and the...
Before Beautiful Noise Took Off, Neil Diamond’s ‘If You Know What I Mean’ Had to Prove the Robertson Gamble
A thoughtful, road-worn song of memory and self-reckoning, If You Know What I Mean was...
Before the arena years began, Neil Diamond’s Brother Love’s Travelling Salvation Show revealed the fearless new sound of his 1969 Uni era
More than a hit single, Brother Love’s Travelling Salvation Show was the moment Neil Diamond...
It Outgrew the Film: How Neil Diamond’s America Became The Jazz Singer’s Lasting Arena Anthem
America began as a dramatic number in The Jazz Singer, but it did not stay...
The Night Neil Diamond Changed the Room: How ‘Dry Your Eyes’ in The Last Waltz Made Him Sound Like a Writer’s Writer
In Neil Diamond’s “Dry Your Eyes”, heartbreak is met with dignity instead of melodrama, and...
When Neil Diamond Got Raw Again: How ‘Delirious Love’ Opened His Rick Rubin Era in 2005
Delirious Love was the sound of Neil Diamond stepping away from polish and back toward...
After Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Neil Diamond’s Longfellow Serenade Delivered the Top 5 Return He Needed
Longfellow Serenade was the tender, elegant hit that reminded listeners how deeply Neil Diamond could...
Before the Singalongs, Neil Diamond’s Solitary Man Introduced a Much Lonelier Voice in 1966
Before the arena choruses and the raised hands, “Solitary Man” introduced Neil Diamond as a...
It Wasn’t Even on the Soundtrack: How Neil Diamond’s Heartlight Turned E.T. Fever Into a 1982 Top 5 Hit
Heartlight took the feeling of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial and turned it into a pop song...
The Turning Point Few Saw Coming: Neil Diamond’s Beautiful Noise and the 1976 Shift That Changed His Mid-70s Story
Beautiful Noise was more than a title song for Neil Diamond in 1976. It was...