Release Date: 07 July 2014
Label: Wanamaker Recording Company / Thirty Tigers
Packaging Type: Slip Sleeve (CD or Vinyl)
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 0616892189749
Genres: Folk
Description
Otis Gibbs is an American singer-songwriter, photographer, and podcaster who has independently self-released records outside the traditional record industry. Born in Wanamaker Indiana now living in East Nashville, Otis Gibbs is a man in search of an honest experience.
Gibbs is often referred to as a folk artist, but that is a simplistic way to describe a man who has planted over 7,000 trees, slept in hobo jungles, walked with nomadic shepherds in Romania, was a fifth grade yo-yo champion and once wrestled a bear (and lost).
Otis has played countless, theatres, festivals, bars and house concerts and has managed to carve out a living, while remaining happily independent. Much of his work concentrates on the world ignored by pop culture.
Sometimes forgotten,obsolete, or simply marginalised, it is a world that doesnt fit into a twenty-second sound bite, or talking point. Otis has spent the last fifteen years traveling across America and abroad documenting this world, and has a story to share about each stop along the way.
Souvenirs Of A Misspent Youth was coined by his father who inspired much of this album "He rode a Harley Davidson chopper, sang along to Jerry Lee Lewis records and took absolutely no shit from anyone."
Tracklisting
The Gaslight Anthem
Melissa Carper
American Aquarium
Wade Bowen
Amos Lee
Bones Owens
John Moreland
Robert Vincent
Iiris Viljanen
Matthew & The Atlas
Simon Care And Gareth Turner
Gordan
Mary Frances Leahy
John Moreland
AEvestaden
Temtris
