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About Me

" In troubadour Otis Gibbs, we may have found America's contemporary Billly Bragg. Not since late A&M period Phil Ochs have we heard such a distinctly American blending of the personal and the political"
- Edward Burch, HARP MAGAZINE
"It's the perfect mix of wit and grit."
-Rick Cornell, NO DEPRESSION
"Gibbs is a Midwesterner with a long beard, a trucker's hat and and a bag of sharply observed country-rock songs, some far enough to the left side of the political fence to make him a spiritual descendent of Woody Guthrie and brother of Steve Earle. But it's the heart-touching humanity he displays that wins your heart."
-Larry Katz, THE BOSTON HERALD
"This Indiana seed planter brings a breezy melodicism to acoustic
songs with a leftist bent, which aligns him with the Seeger tradition of
calling workers to unite while singing sweet, easy tunes that invite people
to sing along.- Michael McCall, The Nashville Scene

My Interests

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Member Since: 3/7/2005
Band Website: otisgibbs.com
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Record Label: Wanamaker recording company
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

boiled peanuts and bottle rockets

i was fortunate enough to be invited to tour with the bottle rockets last fall. we did a stretch of dates in the northeastern united states at the end of last year and then a couple weeks in february ...
Posted by otis gibbs on Wed, 21 Mar 2007 12:44:00 PST

billy bragg tour

in early spring of this year a friend of ours in austin, texas (laura thomas) asked if i'd be interested in playing at a homeless shelter in austin during south by southwest. we said yes. she ask...
Posted by otis gibbs on Mon, 16 Oct 2006 09:24:00 PST

deep in the heart of texas

war mother. he said that his name is jack marvin and that he is lee marvins cousin. i don't know if it's true but i do know that he was the most cantanquerous person i've met in quite a while. ...
Posted by otis gibbs on Tue, 10 Oct 2006 09:18:00 PST

cowboys

i had the good fortune of spending all of august in austin. i spent most of my days wandering the countryside with my camera and most of my nights on a barstool. here are some photos o...
Posted by otis gibbs on Wed, 13 Sep 2006 11:25:00 PST

town for sale

i was sitting on a barstool last week at a bar in bastrop, texas. i was asking some fellas if there were any ghost towns near by and after a short while the conversation finally came around to someone...
Posted by otis gibbs on Tue, 08 Aug 2006 12:42:00 PST

a week in england

thanks to everyone who helped make my trip as wonderful as it was. we made a ton of new friends and were treated like long lost family members.the strange looking building on the right is the venue th...
Posted by otis gibbs on Wed, 02 Aug 2006 02:34:00 PST

random roadside encounters (part 1)

"carhenge" alliance, nebraska. we drove a few hundred miles out of the way and risked being late to a gig in omaha just to see carhenge. it was worth every mile. this is easily in my top five f...
Posted by otis gibbs on Tue, 11 Jul 2006 10:20:00 PST

a week in nawlins

thanks to everyone that came out to the shows in nawlins. i was fortunate enough to be a small part of a reconstruction effort led by a group of hoosiers that took a week out of their lives to rebuild...
Posted by otis gibbs on Thu, 06 Jul 2006 12:44:00 PST

otis' journal

www.otisgibbs.com/journal
Posted by otis gibbs on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST