I've been promising for a while that if you keep sending me emails and leaving comments on iTunes

that I would try to read some of them on the air. So I'd like to start out with an email that I got

from a guy named John in Houston, Texas.

John says, hey, Otis, been listening to your show for a few months now. Just want to thank you for

doing such a wonderful job with the interviews and for bringing a very creative and original way

of interviewing these folks and for bringing their story to us. It's entertaining and something

I look forward to every

Wednesday. You see, I'm a musician at night with a day job, and sometimes the only way I can

shake off the day job to be in the right mental place to do the gig is to listen to your show

on the drive after work. All that to say, truly wonderful work all around. Thank you, John, for sending that email, and I keep sending those in, and I'll try my best to read them on the air.

Music 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 my cats Frankie and baby sitting right next to me, and today's baby's birthday, so when I'm done doing

this, we're going to go off and we're going to have a birthday party for baby.

But 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 of what I'm doing,

but I decided to do it anyway.

And this show was founded with the idea that there are only two people in art that matter.

There's a 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 austin lucas

austin is a singer songwriter who lives right here in nashville tennessee and you can find out everything you need to know about austin at Lucasmusic.com. I first met Austin a little

over a year ago at Moss Tacos when he was hanging out with my buddy Bingham Barnes. And I said,

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