I just got back from almost a month of touring overseas, mostly the UK stuff there,

and had a great tour.

I want to thank everybody that came out to the shows. I want to thank

everybody that came up to me and said that they enjoy this show. There were so many people and people

say such nice things to me. I appreciate the emails that people send me. It's a beautiful thing to

wake up to in the morning and just have somebody saying something nice to you and I truly appreciate

that. I really love being on the road and I have somebody saying something nice to you and I truly appreciate that.

I really love being on the road and I love touring and meeting people, but I love being at home also.

My first night home, I slept 13 hours. It's very tired. And I'm doing my best just to sit around and catch up with all the things that I need to do day to day.

But I want you to know, I truly appreciate you guys coming out and saying, hey, shaking hands and all that stuff.

I'm really happy to be home.

Yeah. 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 is 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. I've decided to fly solo today. You know, I talk to a lot of folks and tell a lot of

different stories, and one story that comes up every now and then is about Elvis meeting Nixon.

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