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Thanks For Giving A Damn

Episode 59: Paul Kelly

Thanks For Giving A Damn

Otis Gibbs

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

5757 Ratings

🗓️ 26 November 2013

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Paul talks about growing up in Adelaide, Australia, Louis Armstrong, discovering The Stanley Brothers, trading cassettes and mix tapes, road stories, bad gigs, Kasey Chambers stories, Tim O’Brien, touring with Crowded House, Neil Finn stories, Steve Earle stories, his first… Continue Reading →

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0:00.0

I've been promising that if you guys send me an email or leave a comment on iTunes

0:14.1

that I would try to read some of those on the air.

0:17.0

And I hadn't done that in a while, so I figured I would share this.

0:20.4

This is from a guy named Scott in Flagstaff, Arizona.

0:24.2

He says, hi, Otis.

0:25.5

I literally stumbled upon thanks for giving a damn while looking for something else on my tune-in radio app.

0:30.9

It was a very happy coincidence.

0:32.9

I wanted to thank you for putting it out there and tell you how much I've enjoyed every episode.

0:37.4

I particularly like the fact that you put the artist's front and center you how much I've enjoyed every episode. I particularly

0:37.9

like the fact that you put the artist front and center and the homey feel of it all.

0:42.1

Thanks for bringing folks like Delbert McClinton and Todd Snyder into my living room.

0:46.2

Well, actually, I live in a yurt, so one and only room. Best wishes and thank you for making

0:51.3

life richer for us all. Thank you, Scott.

0:55.0

I appreciate it.

1:00.2

And if you guys keep sending those in, I will try to read them on the air when I get a chance.

1:03.4

Now I'm going to have to go try to figure out what the hell of yurt is. Now I'm going to have to go try to figure out what the hell of yurt is. Hi, friends, this is Otis Gibbs, and you're listening to Thanks for Giving a Dam.

1:33.5

I'm sitting here in my living room on a very cold day in East Nashville.

1:37.3

We had the first snow of the year last night.

1:40.1

This is a personal journal.

1:41.6

This is a bit of an experiment.

1:43.4

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.

1:49.0

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

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