Greetings from Cardiff Wales. I've had a great week. I flew into Amsterdam a few days ago and then played a festival in Utre it was a beautiful festival a big crowd all crammed

in and everyone was completely silent and just had a great time it was a festival treated me

wonderful it's called rambling roots got to see my buddy sandra luciano and then i flew to

england ended up in eastbourne had a really nice gig there

I stayed for two nights in a supposedly haunted hotel it was actually an inn I might talk about

that a little bit later might not I went ahead and made my way up to Sheffield had a great

gig there saw my buddy Craig,

ended up taking a train to Cardiff, and that's where I'm at in the hotel room,

and I cannot believe after all this time I finally made it to my 100th episode.

Okay. I'm going to be. I'm going to Hi, friends, this is Otis Gibbs, and you're listening to Thanks for Giving a Dam.

I'm sitting here in a hotel room in Cardiff, Wales, on a rainy day.

This is a personal journal. This is a bit of an experiment. I like to say right up front that I haven't the slightest idea what I'm doing, but I decided to do it anyway.

And this show was founded with the idea that there are only two people in art that matter.

There's the creative individual and the person experiencing it.

And everything else is an artificial filter.

This is a way for me to share things with you guys without any filters whatsoever.

I'd planned on having Amy on for the 100th show and she would go ahead and ask me some questions

and I'd tell some stories.

But we got really busy before I had to leave the United States and it's never got a chance to put it together.

So here I am.

I'm in a hotel room in Cardiff, Wales.

I had planned on putting this together in Eastbourne a couple days ago, but I found out that there was this 500-foot cliff called

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