Before we get rolling here, I wanted to strongly urge you to go back and listen to two previous episodes,

where John Lomax III was the guest. A really good episodes. It was episode 80

where he talked about his family's contribution to American music. It's safe to say that

American music would be much different if it weren't for the efforts of the Lomax family.

I'm not sure what it would sound like,

but it would sound nothing like it does today.

There's episode 81,

where John talks about managing Towns Van Zant.

You can only imagine what that might be like.

He told a lot of great stories on those episodes,

and I just want to urge everybody to go digging around in the archives.

There's a lot of gems waiting for you back there.

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 have with the slightest idea of 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 the 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.

My guest this week is John Lomax III.

John is a historian, a writer, a manager.

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