Episode 32: Dustin Welch

Thanks For Giving A Damn

Otis Gibbs

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

5 • 757 Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2013

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Dustin talks about growing up in an creative family, starting a neighborhood band as a child with Carry Ann Hearts, Cory Younts and Justin Townes Earle, working at the Bluebird Cafe, seeing John Prine at the baseball game, the day… Continue Reading →

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0:00.0	I played a gig last night in Pasadena, Texas.
0:15.0	It's a suburb of Houston.
0:17.0	And I played in a man's house.
0:19.0	This man's name Kenny, Pipeses and he has put on 100 shows over the last seven years
0:26.7	and he's had a lot of the people that you hear on this show come play for him and he's so dedicated to
0:34.0	having people play at his house that he removed a wall so that he could have a bigger
0:38.8	room and get more people in there and then he built a stage in his living room and then he put in
0:44.7	a permanent PA and I had the honor of playing the 100th show that he's put on and I started thinking
0:51.8	about a lot of the people that I play for all over the world.
0:55.0	There's a lot of people like Kenny.
0:57.0	There's people who put in a whole lot of effort to put on gigs that people like me and some of the folks on this show have played.
1:04.0	And these folks make it possible for me to make a living and be able to feed my family.
1:10.0	It's not often that they take money and they work very hard to try to get people to come
1:16.0	out to the shows.
1:17.5	So I wanted to take this time to just thank them and let people know that these people exist.
1:23.9	And more than anything, I wanted to thank Kenny for letting me headline his 100th show.
1:29.1	Thanks, Kenny.
2:00.2	Thank you. Hi, friends, this is Otis Gibbs, and you're listening to Thanks for Giving a Damn.
2:07.3	I'm sitting here in a car in LaGrange, Texas, right outside of the courthouse.
2:08.4	Don't ask.
2:10.2	This is a personal journal.
2:12.0	This is a bit of an experiment.
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