I hope you guys have had a good week. I've had a great week. A few days ago, the

bottle rockets were in town. They were playing a record store here in the neighborhood, went over there, got to hang out with him,

and then later at night they were playing a gig at the Mercy Lounge, and went over there, just a great

bottle rockets gig, and it was good to hang out with my friends.

And then Billy Bragg was in town.

He gave me a call.

He said, hey, Otis, I want to go do some fun stuff.

What are you doing i went and picked him up and i got to drive him

around the neighborhood got to show billy east nashville went to some record stores and stuff like

that and some vintage stores then we went over to the musicians hall of fame and my buddy jemadow was

nice enough to give us a little guided tour and he was even nice enough enough to get out of guitar that was Johnny Cash's that he played on stage

back in the 60s.

And he let us play it.

It was an old guild, really nice looking beat-up guild.

And then the next day, Amy and I went over to the Red Barn Roundup and got to hang out

with some friends who were in town from around the world. Got to see a lot of friends from the neighborhood.

Just a great way to cap off a really good week.

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.

This is a personal journal.

This is a bit of an experiment.

I like to say right up front that I have with the slightest idea of what I'm doing, but I decided to do it anyway.

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