Episode 57: David Olney

Thanks For Giving A Damn

Otis Gibbs

Society & Culture, Arts, Music, Performing Arts, Personal Journals

5 • 757 Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2013

⏱️ 34 minutes

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David talks about Killer Kowalski’s claw hold, opening for Townes Van Zandt in 1973, his friendship with Townes, watching Guy Clark play pool, Guy Clark stories, forming The X-Rays, stepping in dog shit on stage, playing Austin City Limits, meeting… Continue Reading →

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0:00.0	I was sitting in a bar here in the neighborhood the other night,
0:12.1	and there was a guy sitting on the other end of the bar.
0:14.5	He was loud.
0:15.3	I could hear him all the way across the room.
0:17.0	He seemed like he was putting on a show for everybody,
0:19.5	and he wasn't feeling any pain.
0:21.7	But somebody walked up to him and asked him, said, hey man, do you party?
0:25.8	He says, dude, I party harder than a Canadian mayor. And I just about fell out of my chair laughing.
0:38.3	Yeah. Oh, and... Oh. And... ...and...
0:39.3	...and...
0:40.3	...and...
0:41.3	...and... Hi friends, this is Otis Gibbs, and you're listening to Thanks for Giving a Dam.
1:02.5	I'm sitting here in my living room in East Nashville, Tennessee.
1:06.0	I got my cat baby on my lap, and it's a cold, cold morning.
1:10.0	This is a personal journal. This is a bit of an
1:12.4	experiment. I like to say right up front that I haven't the slightest idea what I'm doing,
1:17.2	but I decided to do it anyway. This show was founded with the idea that there are only two people
1:22.2	in art that matter. There's the creative individual and the person experiencing it, and everything
1:27.2	else is an artificial filter.
1:29.3	This is a way for me to share things with you guys without any filters whatsoever.
1:34.3	My guest this week is David Olney.
1:36.8	David is a singer and a songwriter, and his songs have been recorded by people like
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