Thank you for all the nice emails and the comments that you've been leaving on iTunes.

I promised that I would read them from time to time if you guys would send them along,

so maybe I'll share one right here.

This is a comment left on iTunes by somebody that calls himself Bonehead 122.

I've learned more about Middle America's music and art from this show than 20 years of

working on the labor side of the entertainment industry.

Not just insightful, but endearing and warm with breaks of side-splitting laughter.

Thanks, Otis.

Thank you, Bonehead 122, and keep sending those comments and emails, and I'll keep reading them.

Thank you. 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, and I have two cats and a dog curled up next to me. It's a pretty good day. 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 Rod Puycott.

Rod is a singer, songwriter who lives in Nashville, Tennessee,

and you can find out everything you need to know about Rod atrodpicot.com.

I've been friends with Rod for a few years now, but before I'd met him, we'd played a lot

of the same gigs, and a lot of them were overseas, but I'd see his name signed in guest

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