I just got home from about a month of touring in the UK and Ireland, and the shows were great, really well attended, and I got to meet a lot of folks that listened to this show, and it's great to be able to put a face to the folks who are listening in, because I don't always get to do that.

But the last week, I got sick and run down and sleep deprived, and I just couldn't wait to get home.

And I figured when I got home, I'd sleep for about a week.

So I flew from Manchester to Atlanta, and then when I got to Atlanta, I got got on the plane and we sat on the runway for about an hour and the pilot kept announcing every ten minutes that they were waiting for a part to arrive so they could repair whatever was wrong with the plane.

And finally I'm looking out the window and the maintenance man shows up and he was carrying nothing but a roll

of duct tape. Then the pilot

got on the intercom and announced

that everything was fixed and we flew

to Nashville. I shit

you not.

I'm not. Hi, Fritz. 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. 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 Will Johnson.

Will is a singer and a songwriter and a painter, and you probably know him from his band Centralmatic and South San Gabriel.

He's also been part of a lot of different projects, and some of those of monsters of folk of folk overseas and the undertow orchestra.

But you can find out everything you need to know about Will at will dashjohnson.com.

I caught up with Will here in Nashville. We met up at our friend Tracy Thomas's house and she was

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