Otis Gibbs

We are thrilled to welcome the fabulous Otis GIbbs to Temperance, all the way from Nashville, Tenessee!

Gibbs’ songs feature stories about every day life. He has been compared to Woody Guthrie, Tom T. Hall, Kris Kristofferson, and Townes Van Zandt. The website Saving Country Music describes Gibbs as a “storyteller’s storyteller” with an “independent spirit.

His 2014 album, “Souvenirs of a Misspent Youth” was described as “his most pleasing, direct and artful work” by The Tennessean. Alan Harrison of No Depression notes that “The Darker Side of Me” is the type of song that Johnny Cash would be interested in recording.

Billy Bragg included Gibbs’ song “The Peoples Day” in a list of “Top Five Songs with Something to Say”, published in the Wall Street Journal.

Andy Gill of The Independent wrote that there is a “authenticity and dedication in Gibbs’ delivery which is somehow cleansing in its purity”.

This is a once in a lifetime chance to catch him playing live in such an intimate space. We can’t bloody wait!