Episode 127: Strange Fruit

Thanks For Giving A Damn

Otis Gibbs

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

5 • 757 Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2016

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Otis talks about Billy Holiday’s version of Strange Fruit and the 1930 lynching in Marion, Indiana that inspired it.

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0:00.0	It's a beautiful morning here in Nashville.
0:14.0	We got an inch of snow last night and it completely shut down the city, which is completely
0:19.4	understandable because it hardly ever snows in Nashville.
0:22.6	So there's no snow trucks to deal with it. There's really no need for it most of time.
0:27.6	So an inch of snow can shut down a city.
0:29.6	Now I'm a midwesterner. I grew up in the Midwest and we would get eight inches of snow,
0:34.6	and a whole fleet of trucks would come out because it snows all the time
0:38.6	in the winter in the Midwest and these this fleet of trucks would remove all the snow and we'd all
0:45.1	go to school the next day and the city would carry on so everything has its place as the coffee
0:50.6	was kicking in I kept thinking about that and it seemed like a really good metaphor for a lot of things in life.
0:57.2	But for some reason, it just stuck in my brain,
0:59.5	and I find it somewhat inspiring to realize that just one inch of snow can shut down a city.
1:05.9	Music Oh, Oh. Oh. Oh.
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1:15.6	Oh. Hi, friends, this is Otis Gibbs, and you're listening to Thanks for Giving a Dam.
1:36.5	I'm sitting here in my living room in East Nashville on a beautiful snowy morning.
1:41.8	This is a personal journal. This is a bit of an experiment.
1:45.7	I like to say right up front that I haven't the slightest idea what I'm doing, but I
1:49.4	decided to do it anyway.
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