 Capitol released Diamond's 1980 soundtrack album for "The Jazz Singer".On September 8, 2014, six of the tracks from "Melody Road" were premiered at the Capitol Records studios in Hollywood, CA at a listening party for a small group of music industry executives and journalists.Following the event, "Billboard" wrote that the album is "rich in orchestration that retains the dark rustic qualities of his last two studio albums of original material, "12 Songs" and "Home Before Dark".