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Thanks For Giving A Damn

Episode 169: Growing Up Around Bill Monroe

Thanks For Giving A Damn

Otis Gibbs

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

5757 Ratings

🗓️ 20 March 2020

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

David Grier shares his memories of Bill Monroe including a tour bus full of chickens, fist fights and a ton of great music.

Transcript

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0:00.0

If you're listening to this in March of 2020, you're probably experiencing a high level of cabin fever right now.

0:18.0

You're probably listening to this in isolation. At least I hope you are.

0:23.9

I haven't left the house in over a week. I've just been sitting around trying to get caught up on a few

0:29.8

things. I have some hermit tendencies, so it's pretty easy for me to sit back and not see the

0:36.0

rest of the world for a little while.

0:38.3

I look at it like this.

0:40.3

Our grandparents stormed the beaches in Normandy.

0:42.3

I think we can sit around on our ass for a little while until this all blows over.

0:47.3

And hopefully it will blow over soon.

0:50.3

I won't preach to y'all, but take care of each other out there, and you're listening to Thanks for Giving a Dam.

1:26.3

I'm sitting here in my home in Indianapolis, Indiana.

1:30.3

This is a personal journal.

1:31.3

This is a bit of an experiment.

1:33.3

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.

1:39.3

And this show is founded with the idea that there are only two people in art that matter.

1:43.3

There's a creative

1:44.2

individual and the person experiencing it. Everything else is an artificial filter. This is a way

1:49.8

for me to share things with you guys without any filters whatsoever. My guess this week is David

1:57.0

Greer. David is just one of the best guitar players on the planet. You can find out everything

2:03.9

you need to know about David at David greer.com. So if you haven't heard episode, I think it was

2:12.5

163, David talked about befriending Clarence White and shared a bunch of stories. It's a very popular

2:20.0

episode. If you haven't heard that, go back and listen to it now. David recently played a gig here

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