But Diamond is only 37 and he’s not about to put down his pen or hang up his guitar. No, it can’t be easy trying to live the ideals of Jack Kerouac, author of On the Road, or Bob Dylan in the century after they realized their visions. Lisa Nichols for Hearst CT Media/Lisa Nichols/Hearst CT Media Jupiter the friendly English mastiff nearly always accompanies Diamond, whether it’s on the road at the musician’s performances or at his Enfield home. Transcendent rainbow moments are fine to have and hold onto - but how does an aspiring musician break through in the ever-tougher music business in 2022? How can Diamond make a living by making music? Will he ever be able to quit that day job? Those who gathered that night at the Buttonwood Tree, a throwback coffeehouse kind of place, also heard him describe a scene during his three-month cross-country motorcycle odyssey years ago: “I remember, on my Harley one morning, seeing a rainbow, feeling happy to be alive.” When he’s not on stage or holding down his day job as a Hartford firefighter, Diamond gets his therapy by “driving around in my pickup truck with my dog in the countryside.” “Thanks for coming out and being my therapy,” he adds. Near the end of his performance he remarks, “After getting ripped apart, music put me back together.” If you pay attention to what Diamond says between his songs, you’ll “get” a lot more. And he tells us: “If you’re a dreamer, you’ll get this.” The man on the stage, singer-songwriter Charlie Diamond, had introduced his “ Electric Lady Dreams” as “my favorite song.” It’s on his new album From One Place to the Next, which he recorded at a studio in Windsor. Musician Charlie Diamond in his Enfield, CT home on July13, 2022.

She said, ‘Live your life, dream your dreams, nothing will hold you back.’ So we laced up our boots and we tucked in our pants and we gave a rebel scream into the wild … She said, ‘I’m coming with you, sweet eyes, where you going, well, I just don’t care.’ Well, I saw a gypsy candle girl with a bandanna in her hair

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