I think I've mentioned it before, but sometimes when I'm hanging out here in the neighborhood, I'll overhear something.

It might be out of context or it might be something somebody said to me.

But if it's funny or interesting, I'll go

ahead and write it down. And then later I'll share it on maybe the Twitters and tell people about it.

But I was out the other day and I was just kind of daydreaming as I was sitting there at the bar.

And I daydream a lot sometimes. I just drift off. And as I came back in, I overheard someone say,

music was a lot better back when ugly people were allowed to make it.

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.

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.

And this show was founded with the idea

that there are only two people in art that matter. There'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 Chuck Mead. Chuck is a singer and a songwriter, and he lives

right here in East Nashville. You can find out everything you need to know about Chuck at

Chuck Mead.com. I've known Chuck for quite a while now, and he was one of the first people

I contacted when I decided I wanted to do this show, and he was eager to jump in, and he was one of the first people I contacted when I decided I wanted

to do this show and he was eager to jump in and he ended up being, I don't know, on our fourth

or fifth episode and we had a really good response from that. But Chuck's just one of those guys

that has a ton of great stories. He's been fortunate enough to be in a lot of rooms where some

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