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.

Tuesday is here again, which can only mean one thing, another three tunes from me and hopefully from lots of you good folks too. How are all of you music loving rockers from Jamestown to Jerusalem doing on this fine evening? Sure, isn't great to be alive all the same.

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 68th week waxing lyrical for Three Tune Tuesday. 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 and that playlist that Hive account@blackdaisyft is updating (when she gets time) has ripped past the 600 mark that I mentioned before and at the last count was at an mightily impressive 639 unique tunes and trucking steadily towards 700. Thank you for doing that by the way daisy, when you do find time, as I like throwing on the playlist from time to time reminding myself of all of the sweet tunes that have been shared down through the months - Good on you.

Weekly, I try to find two or three hours to listen to all of the fantastic music shared from like-minded folk from around the globe and interact with their posts. This has lead 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 fins 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.

Here are my week sixty eight recommendations for Three Tune Tuesday

** Drum roll please.....**

Albert Niland - Lemonade Room

Something that I love about Three Tune Tuesday is hearing about some obscure Nigerian artist or song from one of my Nigerian #ttt friends or hearing about some musical instrument that I had never heard of thanks to Hive account@blackydaisyft or Hive account@beeber, so this week I said why not bring you all an Irish artist who few of you (if any) will have heard of. His name is Albert Niland and I somehow came into the possession of his second album Downtown Exit and I always had it in the car, so listened to it quite a lot.

Though he never made it big, he certainly had a local following and I had forgotten about him over the years, but as I thought about what direction to go with Three Tune Tuesday this week, he popped into my head and here we are. This one is the second song from the album I mentioned above Downtown Exit.

Albert Niland - Wuthering Heights

This second song is again taken from Downtown Exit. It is of course not a song that Albert himself wrote and although I am not typically a fan of cover songs, I did like this cover of Kate Bush's classic song Wuthering Heights. It sits majestically halfway through the album.

Now let's call a spade a spade, it is nowhere near as good as Kate's version, but how could it be? The great musical alchemist Miss Bush could probably sing anyone's song and make it her own, so trying to take one of hers and make it your own is no easy feat, but for me Albert has a good crack at it.

Albert Niland - Letter to the Hills Of England

As I started to write about some of Albert's songs from back in the 2000s, I wondered to myself whether he was still playing and writing or if he had given up on the dream and was not carpenter in Cabinteely or a waiter in Walkinstown?

Well, he is neither thankfully and is still making music, albeit not with the success that I am sure that he dreamed of, but I'm sure inside the dream is still alive. Here is a more recent song of his, written in 2021 as far as I know.

ThreeTune Spotify Playlist

Our good friend and regular Three Tune Tuesday poster Hive account@blackdaisyft has added some of the ThreeTuneTuesday songs to a Spotify playlist over the months. You can check them out here:

Three Tune Tuesday Spotify Playlist

HBI contest

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.

Three Tune Tuesday Sponsors

My old pal and brother from another mother Hive account@blanchy has also committed a share of HBI each week and so have two other Three Tune legends Hive account@blackdaisyft and Hive account@tengolotodo.

So if you win, then you will get not one, not two, not three, but four shares of HBI! Not too shabby at all!

Thanks a million guys and gal.

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 week sixty eight. 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.

Peace Out