I'm lucky that I've never suffered from allergies, but everybody around me seems like they're either stopped up or sneezing right now.

I guess the pollen counts are so high in East Nashville that the crackheads are trying to convert their meth back into Sudafed. 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, Tennessee.

This is a personal journal.

This is a bit of an experiment.

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 guest this week is Tommy Womack. without any filters whatsoever.

My guess this week is Tommy Womack.

Tommy is a singer-songwriter.

He's even written a book called The Cheese Chronicles.

It's a true story of a rock and roll band you've never heard of.

I think that explains it,

and I highly recommend you pick up a copy.

You can find out everything you need to know about Tommy at Tommy Womack.net. I first met Tommy probably eight years ago when he played a bar in Indianapolis, Indiana.

And about a week later I ran into him in Austin, Texas.

And just a really easy guy to be around.

I like Tommy a lot. And once I moved to Nashville,

got to know him a lot better. And he's amazingly open and honest in this little chat that we had.

Tommy was nice enough to invite me over to his living room there in Nashville, Tennessee.

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