Tap Root Manuscript is the sixth studio album recorded by Neil Diamond, released in October 1970.

It was one of the most experimental albums he ever recorded, featuring rock music fused with prominent African sounds and instruments.

[5] This effort predates many Western pop artists' interest in world music, for instance Peter Gabriel's 1980 founding of World of Music, Arts and Dance (WOMAD), and the African-influenced album Graceland by Paul Simon in 1986.

[6] Tap Root Manuscript was one of the most novel experimental recording projects of its time, and the Uni label, to which Diamond was then under contract, initially was not sure whether it would be commercially viable.

Cash Box said of the single "Soolaimón" that "Neil Diamond applies his composer's sophistication in an approach at primitivism that stands apart as a new slant on top forty sound.