Episode 106: Dale Watson

Thanks For Giving A Damn

Otis Gibbs

Society & Culture, Arts, Music, Performing Arts, Personal Journals

5 • 757 Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2015

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Dale talks about hanging with Earl Campbell at Gilley’s, honky tonk fights in Texas, Gilley’s stories, George Jones stories, smoking with Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash stories, the first time he walked into the Continental Club, Chicken Shit Bingo, Ginny’s Little… Continue Reading →

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0:00.0	I walked past a driver's lounge at a truck stop in Henderson, Kentucky.
0:14.3	I heard four truckers giving another trucker a hard time.
0:17.9	He was hauling Kepler cookies, and the other drivers thought it was pretty
0:21.4	hilarious so they kept asking him a bunch of silly things like, did the elves let you watch
0:26.5	them make the cookies and then they would laugh. Do you have to be an elf to drive their trucks?
0:31.6	They'd laugh some more and how many miles do you have to log before they share the recipe?
0:36.6	It went on for quite a while, and they all laughed.
0:39.3	But the trucker was a good sport, and he just kept smiling quietly when they would tease him.
0:44.3	And finally, I guess he'd had enough.
0:46.6	They stood up in a deep, slow voice, said, listen now.
0:51.7	I only drive this truck for the paycheck.
0:54.3	I don't ask any questions.
0:56.4	I just backed the truck up to the tree and the elves fill it.
1:00.1	And then he turned around slowly and walked out of the room smiling.
1:03.7	I think that's the trucker version of a walk-off home run.
1:10.5	Music I'm Oh Yeah
1:14.6	Oh Hi, friends, this is Otis Gibbs, and you're listening to Thanks for Giving a Dam.
1:37.2	I'm sitting here in my living room in East Nashville.
1:40.2	This is a personal journal. This is a bit of an experiment.
1:43.7	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.
1:49.8	And this show was founded with the idea that there are only two people in art that matter.
1:54.0	There's a creative individual and the person experiencing it.
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