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
Paul Thorn
Jason Boland & The Stragglers
Pug Johnson
Hayes Carll
Maggie Antone
St. Paul & The Broken Bones
Benjamin Booker
Michigander
Various Artists
St Agnes Fountain
Will & James Ragar
Subway to Sally
The Albion Christmas Band
Kuljit Bhamra & Becky Price
Gjermund Larsen Trio
Berit Opheim
