Tags: Otis Gibbs Americana Folk Indie Singer/Songwriter in the Woods Lage Vuursche Netherlands
Otis recounted a tale about when he was walking all by his lonesome self in Frankfurt (Germany), when a young girl walked up to him; he was both pleased and puzzled because it is obviously a welcome thing to be approached by an attractive young female but then she was talking German to him. While he pondered on how to deal with this, not speaking nor understanding German, a guy also walked up to him, carrying video equipment. It turned out to be that these people were a camera crew filming on the subject of homeless people in Frankfurt...
This was a nice intro to some hobo music.
Tags: Otis Gibbs Americana Folk Indie Singer/Songwriter in the Woods Lage Vuursche Netherlands
From the Otis Gibbs Bio:
Otis Gibbs is a man in search of an honest experience. Some people refer to him 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 the Carpathian Mountains, been strip-searched by dirty cops in Detroit, and has an FBI file.
Tags: Otis Gibbs Americana Folk Indie Singer/Songwriter in the Woods Lage Vuursche Netherlands
In 2004, his critically acclaimed, “One Day Our Whispers” was released. It was an unpopular time to speak truth to power, but the album’s optimism and anti-war undertones resonated deeply with people who felt uncomfortable
with the direction America was heading. Though songs like “I Wanna Change It,” “Thirty-three” and “Ours is the Time” have been described as protest songs, Otis prefers to call them “love songs for young radicals.” “The
Peoples Day” was later included in a Wall Street Journal list compiled by Billy Bragg of the “Top Five Songs with Something to Say.” This placed Gibbs in the company of Bob Dylan, The Clash, Sam Cooke, and Chuck Berry.
Tags: Otis Gibbs Americana Folk Indie Singer/Songwriter in the Woods Lage Vuursche Netherlands
Otis Gibbs has spent the last 15 years traveling across America and abroad documenting this world, and has a story to share about each stop along the way. His songs deliver optimism and anti-war undertones. He his a way of breathing life into the characters of his songs.
Tags: Otis Gibbs Americana Folk Indie Singer/Songwriter in the Woods Lage Vuursche Netherlands