fifteen songs by Eric Diamond

Eric Diamond's songs percolate in the night and arrive in the morning, dressed as blues or jazz or ballad or country or strange drama...they involve grief and praise, conflict and redemption, confrontation with struggles, the gold and the shadow in people...they are ready to laugh or cry, but not to compromise....with a guitar and a voice, they were pithy but underclothed...
Hunter Diamond of the effervescent Chicago jazz scene, and beloved son, brought the garments, horns and strings and keys and verve, engaging with the wide spectrum, the smoldering Spirit, and the depths with brio and devotion--now the Fifteen songs are standing proudly, making the right kind of trouble, full of life....

Tracklist

1.	Fortune Will Smile	3:16

2.	Somewhere Along the Way	5:06

3.	Prisoner's Lament	4:39

4.	The Crying World	3:57

5.	Detective Blues	3:32

6.	The Loving Kind	5:40

7.	Early Morning Rhyme	2:29

8.	Way Up High	3:15

9.	Winter's Clouds	3:58

10.	The Colors of Fall	3:52

11.	Burn Slowly Sweet Candle	3:38

12.	Climbing the Walls	3:26

13.	Hound Dog for Your Love	2:56

14.	Asking for Mercy	8:06

15.	Not Again Lord	4:00

Credits

released December 31, 2022

Eric Diamond - electric & acoustic guitars, lead vocals
Spencer Tweedy - drums
Lane Beckstrom - electric & acoustic bass
Cole DeGenova - organ, piano, keyboard, Wurlitzer
Hunter Diamond -tenor saxophone, clarinet, percussion,
background vocals
Dorian Gehring - pedal steel, slide guitar, fiddle, accordion,
Wurlitzer
Artie Black - tenor saxophone
Keefe Jackson - baritone saxphone
Sima Cunningham - background vocals
Macie Stewart - violin, background vocals
Devin Ulery - washboard

all lyrics and compositions by Eric Diamond
horn/string arrangements by Hunter Diamond

Recorded at Foxhall Studio in Chicago, IL
Produced by Hunter Diamond & Dorian Gehring
Engineered and mixed by Dorian Gehring
Mastered by Nick Broste
Cover art and selected details for interior: "Dark Alley" by Alfred Phillips
Layout and Design by Hunter Diamond & Marine Tempels Black

I would like to thank my sources of inspiration: Jerry Garcia, Robert Hunter, Richard Thompson, Bob Dylan, Motown, WNEW-FM in New York, among many others.
Love and gratitude to Jacqui, Lizzie, the Diamond family, friends (especially Leslie, Paul and Nancy, Chris and Marie, Joe, John, Lance, Kim and Wendie, Eddie, Cliff, Michael); my Frets and Refrains family, and all those that have listened and supported me.
Immense thanks to the talented and remarkable Dorian Gehring for recording, producing, playing, steering the ship; to Spencer and Lane, superlative musical companions; the great Cole DeGenova; and Artie, Keefe, Sima, Macie, and Devin.
And massive gratitude to the heartbeat of this project: producer, arranger, soloist extraordinaire, coach, keen attender and bearer of incisive feedback, my son Hunter Diamond.

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