I want to thank everybody for all the nice emails. I've been getting a bunch of them lately, a whole bunch, and it's nice. I want you guys to know I read every one of them, and when you guys say nice things, I forward them on to Amy and then she reads them and feel good about the world.

This is something I do in solitude. You know, I'm always in a living room by myself or in a hotel room putting these together.

And while I'm doing it, I don't really think about the people who are listening on the other end,

so I really appreciate you guys sending me those messages and saying hi, it shows.

But one message that I keep getting is that I need to plug my social media stuff more,

and I never plugged that on here.

I'm not really sure why. I don't really do this to plug things.

But I guess I should say I'm on Facebook.

If you want to come and join me and say hi, it's Otis Gibbs Music. It's one of those band type pages.

There are other pages, Facebook with my name on it, but they're not me or I don't use them anymore.

So Otis Gibbs Music. I spend more time on Twitter. I go in spurts

when I'm on tour. I try to let you guys know what's going on during the day on there.

You find me at Otis Gibbs. And if you like seeing some photos for my tours and just around

Nashville or whatever, me hanging out with people. Mostly me, petting cats and

dogs and goats and things like that, you can go to Instagram. Search me out Otis Gibbs on there.

So if you're into any of that stuff, just be sure and follow me and say hi and I'll do my best to be a good

friend. 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 of what I'm doing,

but I decided to do it anyway.

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

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