If you’ve been to Mississippi in the summertime, you really can hear yourself sweat. Neil Diamond wrote this after seeing a tent revival in Jackson, Miss. one hot August night. The intensity of the preacher and audience left an impression on a Jewish college kid from Brooklyn. Diamond recorded this in Memphis; his sessions were bumped due to Elvis booking the studio at the last minute. The King repaid the inconvenience by cutting one of Neil’s songs, “And The Grass Won’t Pay No Mind.”
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