Our buddies Jimmy and Beth were nice enough to babysit our dog Russell last week while Amy and I were out of town.

They said Russell was acting all lonesome and wasn't

being very sparky, so Jimmy thought it'd be a good idea to take him to the dog park.

And as they were driving through East Nashville, Jimmy turned on the car radio to Outlaw

country on Sirius XM, and our friend Elizabeth Cook is a DJ on there, and she was playing

one of my songs. When Russell heard my voice, he jumped up in the seat and pulled right out of his funk and started

looking all around trying to find me.

And Jimmy got on the phone and gave me a call and told me about that, and I'm afraid

it's about the best thing I heard all week.

I'm afraid Oh Oh Yeah

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I'm Hi friends, this is Otis Gibbs and you're listening to Thanks for Giving a Dam.

Welcome to my living room here in East Nashville, Tennessee.

This is a personal journal.

This is a bit of an experiment.

And 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.

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.

And this is a way for me to share things with you guys without any filters whatsoever.

My guess this week is Adam Carroll.

Adam is a singer-songwriter based in San Marcos, Texas, and I have to say he's one of my favorites.

And you can find out everything you need to know about Adam at

Adam Carroll.com. I first met Adam when I was playing a festival in Fairplay, Colorado, and we were

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