I've been promising for a while that if you guys would leave comments on iTunes and SoundCloud, that I would go ahead and read them on the air.

I haven't done that in a while, so I figured I'd share this one from Martha's boy Stanley. The subject says a dream show for musicians,

music lovers, and enthusiasts of amazing storytellers. You know they say that the only true

happiness to be found in this life comes from getting to spend time with the people you love.

Simply put, every single one of Otis's

shows leave me feeling as if I've just spent an evening hanging out and laughing with warm,

wise, and wildly funny friends. It's such a gift. Thank you, Mars's boy, Stanley, for the kind words,

and thanks to everybody who's been telling their friends and spreading the word, and thank you to everyone who's been leaving comments on iTunes and SoundCloud.

And if you keep doing that, I'll try my best to read some of them on the air.

I'll try my best to read some of them on the air. 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. It's a 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 guess this week is John Bird.

John is a singer and a songwriter and a guitar player who lives right here in East Nashville. You can find out everything you need to know about John at John Bird.com. I've known John for about 10 years now, and we've been buddies for a while, and I go see John play probably once every week or two here

in Nashville since moving here and the best way I could describe John is John is a true country singer

if you're a person who likes old school country music and you really need to know about John

I encourage you to pick up one of his records and get to know him and it's's funny, if you go out to one of his shows here in Nashville, the crowd is made up of other musicians and songwriters.

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