I went to the Country Music Hall of Fame this weekend, and there was a discussion that was moderated by Peter Cooper.

And I went with some friends, and the discussion was about an album called the Kingston Spring Suite.

It was recorded over 40 years ago and it was produced by Chris Christofferson, Johnny Cash,

Jack Clement, and Shel Silverstein. And the album was never released and it just now finally

was seeing the light of day. It was a good time and, you know, I'm going to buy the album myself because it looked really interesting.

But one of the things that was said was a songwriter named Jim Casey who was on the panel and he was telling a story about Vince Matthews.

And Vince Matthews was a songwriter and they both made this album. But Vince Matthews was convinced that he'd ripped off

the melody from a Guy Clark song and he was really worried about it they thought the only the best

thing to do would be to go to Guy Clark and tell him face to face so he went to Guy

guy and he was really worried about it because you know know, Guy Clark's a pretty intimidating person.

So he's expecting the worst.

He tells Guy, he says, I need to sing this song for you.

I think I ripped off your melody, and I wanted you to know about it from me.

And Guy Clark sat back for a second and says, well, I guess you're going to have to play me that song.

Then I'll tell you who I stole it from. I'm going to say, 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.

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