I was having breakfast at a waffle house in Sherwood, Arkansas, and anybody who's ever been to a waffle house understands that it's a special sort of place, and I'll just leave it at that.

But I'm sitting there and joining my omelette when Tuesday's Gone by Leonard Skinnerd came on the jukebox.

And my waitress got super excited and started yelling to the people behind the grill.

Turn it up!

My Lani used to sing that to me before he went to prison.

The music. Hi, friends, this is Otis Gibbs, and you're listening to Thanks for Giving a Dam.

I'm sitting here in my living room in East Nashville.

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 a 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. My guest this week is Jay McDowell. Jay is

the Multimedia Assistant Museum Ex museum exhibit curator at the Musicians

Hall of Fame and Museum here in Nashville. You can find out everything you need to know about the

Musicians Hall of Fame at Musicians Hall of Fame.com. I've been bugging Jay for a while about

getting together and doing a show about Jimmy Hendrix in the time that he spent in Nashville.

A lot of people don't know about that, but he played the bars here in Nashville before he was famous.

And Jay was nice enough to come on and tell us some stories.

And we both got the talking afterwards, and we were both big fans of the book,

Becoming Jimmy Hendricks by

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