I'd like to share a really nice email I got from a guy named Wayne in Santa Rosa, California.

Wayne says, I've listened to every episode of thanks for giving a damn.

Yesterday as you were doing the outro, I realized for the first time that you were talking to me.

I appreciate what you do in order to T-shirt today to put my money where my ears are every Wednesday.

Bill Kaufman is such a great storyteller and he has so many unique experiences to share.

I thought you set the bar pretty high for yourself from the start.

How can Otis find other people even half as interesting as Phil?

I thought to myself.

Well, all these weeks later, I've heard you interview many great storytellers, and I appreciate

your ability to make them feel comfortable enough to share their passions, dreams, and joy.

I especially enjoy Brian Heneman, Dan Baird, Gurf Morlicks, Bob Olson, and part one of Billy Bragg,

and I'm looking forward to next week.

Thank you very much, Wayne, and I appreciate everybody who's taking the time to send me a nice email.

Thank you. everybody who's taking time to Thanks for Giving a Dam.

I'm sitting here in my living room in East Nashville, Tennessee.

This is a bit of an experiment.

This is a personal journal, 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. This is a way for me to share things with you guys without any filters whatsoever.

My guess this week is Nan Worshaw. Nan is the co-founder and co-owner of Bloodshot Records,

and I'm willing to bet that they've put out quite a few of the records that are in your record collection right now.

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