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I saw Damien Rice live in concert on 26 April 2007 at the Roseland Theater in Portland, Oregon. A friend had seen him live in Melbourne several months earlier and pronounced it to be the "best concert ever"! I thought that, since I would be in town and had loved his first album O, I'd go along with a friend and check out Damien Rice live in concert.

Damien Rice is one of those artists I heard by chance in a CD store. Based on the one song I heard, I decided to by his album O. I'm glad I did. This album is wonderful. In many ways, including the interesting use of open arrangements that leave a lot of empty space, it reminds me a lot of Rice's compatriot Van Morrison's Astral Weeks - now that's got to be quite a compliment!