Hank Williams, Chet Atkins, and the Everly Brothers were some of the artists out of Nashville that profoundly influenced a young Neil Diamond when he started writing songs at 16 after his first guitar ...

After spending his formative years as a songwriter working at the Brill Building in New York City during the early 1960s through mid-’60s, Neil Diamond had his first hit in 1965 with Jay and the ...