Here are my week two hundred and two recommendations for Three Tune Tuesday

Drum roll please.....

Damien Rice - Older Chests

I went maybe four weeks in a row sharing Irish artists not so long ago and then flipped back to anyone and everyone from around the world.

This week I'm going to stay local again. Let's wheel back to February 2002, a full 23 years ago. Damien Rice released an album that is fully worthy of a listen if you find the time. The album is called O. It is dedicated to Mic Christopher, another super talented Irish singer who sadly died prior to this album's release.

Let's start off with perhaps my favorite song from the album Older Chests

Damien Rice - The Blower's Daughter

This next song is also a choice from the wonderful O album from Damien. For those who've never heard of him, Damien Rice was previously a member of the band Juniper. When this band ceased to be due to changes in creative direction, he took a sabbatical in rural Italy before returning to his beloved Ireland. Soon after returning Rice bumped into his second cousin, composer David Arnold who was impressed with Rice's new solo songs he had written in Italy and sent Rice's demo to music publishes, but they didn't want to know. Frustrated, Arnold worked with Rice to set up recording equipment for a home studio to make the album independently. With the help of a €500 loan friends who were opera singers, Gregorian chants and singing from his girlfriend Lisa Hannigan, they set to work.

The album was released as "CD-sized hardcover book filled with personal artwork, lyrics, and photos." It quickly became a cult classic.

Here we go, second song The Blower's Daughter

Damien Rice - Cannonball

We've been on a great run with songs from O, so we may as well finish out the trio for the week with another from O.

O was released to critical and public acclaim in Europe and then globally. It didn't sell hugely at first, but eventually went Gold in America meaning that it sold more than 500,000 copies.

Three Tune Tuesday

That's right, it's Tuesday folks and for our merry little band of ladies and lads, that means sharing tunes, good vibes and engagement. As another week disappears in the rearview mirror, we have loads of engagement and tunes flying around on Three Tune Tuesday and sure isn't that bloody fantastic! I hope you're ready to share three tunes from wherever you find yourself on this magical spinning lump of rock that we all call home and sure you might even sing us a tune if we're lucky?

It's a time of the week when lovers of music, tunes and craic bring their blockchain community three of their finest and brightest tunes to share and celebrate, so let's roll on and let the tunes flow free.

This is my 202nd week waxing lyrical for Three Tune Tuesday and we are still going strong.

It started off with me just sharing tunes into what seemed like a void, but little by little others joined and now I'm thrilled that we have a little corner of Hive where we come and share our tunes every Tuesday, and long may it continue. I almost stopped posting the songs and thoughts a few times, but I stuck with it and now interestingly it is my favorite thing about Hive. I love music and now I have a network of folks around the world who love music too and we share our tunes and catch up with each others tunes and discuss them each week. We get Pop, Metal, Rock, Gospel, Folk, Jazz, Rap, Hip-Hop, Trip-Hop, Reggae, Bippy bappidy Flange Hop. Ok I made that one up, but you get the idea, we are all learning about new artists, bands, back stories and sure isn't it just mighty!

Something that excites me the most is that we even get musicians sharing their covers of famous songs and even their own songs from time to time here on #ThreeTuneTuesday, which is a real favorite of mine, as that takes talent, time and dedication.

We are adding New posters and retaining our core of regulars here on #TTT which is fantastic. Let's keep it growing. Over the years, I have listened to fantastic music shared from like-minded folk from around the globe and interacted with their posts. This has led me to genres I don't know well and to some amazing new bands and artists and has even introduced me to some musical instruments I did not know existed. It also allows me to upvote smaller accounts and find some really interesting people from all over the world, which is heartening.

I hope you enjoy the tunes - be sure to tell me all about it in the comments below and above all else, please enjoy the rest of your Tuesday - smile at a stranger, rub a dog, be a nice human to someone who was not expecting it - peace out.

For those unfamiliar with TTT or Three Tune Tuesday....

The jist is as follows

Every Tuesday I'm going to share 3 songs which I like to listen to and I invite your feedback in the comments below. Better still, why not have a blast of your own Three Tune Tuesday and mention me in the post and I'll come and find the post and upvote it. If you could also use #threetunetuesday tag that would be great, as that is what I use when sifting through all the entries every Wednesday. It'll be a sweet way for us all to discover new music. You'll also be in with a chance of winning the prize - more on that later.

HBI contest - win 5HBI

Share your Three Tune Tuesday songs below or create a post with #ttt or #threetunetuesday and mention me so I can find the post.

I'll pick the three songs I enjoyed the most each week as the winner and transfer 1 share of HBI to the winner when this post pays out 7 days from now, but wait there's more...

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Thanks a million to our sponsors above once again and any winners please bear in mind that some people only pop on here every few months, so be patient while waiting for the HBI.

Best of luck!

Sin é, That's all folks, thanks for stopping by.

That's it for another week. Those are your three songs for this week. Let me know what you think - good, bad or indifferent? Did you like them all or just one or two?

Also, as I said before, I love getting good steers for new tunes, so please tell me about the latest and greatest from your playlist below and I'll be sure to check em out.

The YouTube videos shared are not owned by me and I am simply sharing great music with the community here on Hive

Thanks as always for stopping by everyone and a big shout out to @stickupcurator whose continued generous support to #ttt is noticed and truly appreciated - thanks gents.

Peace Out