I want to thank everybody for all the nice emails that you've been sending. I appreciate it. I want you to know I read every one of them. I don't always get a chance to respond because I get so many but I do read them and sometimes

they lift up my day pretty well I got one last week from someone named Yossi

in Galilee Israel and it kind of made my morning so I figured I would share that

with you guys right here it says hi Ot. I've been listening to Thanks for giving a

damn for a couple months now. Usually I listen when I'm walking for exercise in the morning,

sometimes when I'm driving somewhere. I live in Lower Galilee Israel. I wanted to let you

know I really enjoy the broadcast. This week's interview with Chuck Mead was great. He told

wonderful stories, great history.

I always enjoy hearing the insights about songwriting, performing, road stories that the musicians share with you.

You do a good job just letting the people talk with a question or comment thrown in here and there.

Anyway, thanks again for the interviews.

All the best, Yossi.

I really appreciate that, Yossi. If you can put yourself in my shoes and imagine I'm sitting here in my living room just on my couch with a cat next to me and I throw together this show and then just a few hours later, somebody's walking through Galilee listening to it. It's a strange world and we live in amazing times.

And I appreciate you guys reaching out.

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. 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.

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