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Otis Gibbs

0	BIRMINGHAM: Kitchen Garden Cafe
P	Monday 16th July, 2012
N	7:30pm

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Favourite son of Wanamaker, Indiana. A man trying to live decently in an indecent world. Writer of songs, teller of tales, populist agitator, social dissident, planter of over 7000 trees, photographer, mucisian, iconoclast. Otis Gibbs makes a debut performance at KGC to promote his 6th album, Harder Than Hammered Hell, inspired by his experiences as a tree-planter in Indiana. As recommended by Billy Bragg & oft compared to Woodie Guthrie, Bob Dylan & Bruce Springsteen, Otis's work concentrates on the world ingored by pop culture. Sometimes forgotten, obsolete, or simply marginalised, it is a world documented by Otis from 15 years of travel, with a story to share about each stop along the way.
“If you like the real deal American folk with a rusty edge, this will be your album of the year.” (No Depression on Harder Than Hammered Hell, 2012). "...this album puts Otis Gibbs into the same class as Dylan but with an openness in his songs that few if any can match"(Maverick on Joe Hill's Ashes, 2010). "...this bearded idealist from Indiana is the real deal: gritty, angry and concerned." (The Irish Times).