OTIS GIBBS

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We're mighty pleased to be welcoming Otis Gibbs back to Brighton, touring in support of his new album 'Harder Than Hammered Hell'.

Otis Gibbs is an old-school troubadour who you might say has picked up the mantle of Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger. He sings of everyday folks, not always the desperate or destitute, but the overlooked and underappreciated and he blends the personal and political with consummate ease. Otis, above all else, is a damn fine songwriter.

Otis has sacrificed many of the comforts most of us take for granted, so that he could live a creative life. Much of his work concentrates on the world that is ignored by pop culture, sometimes forgotten, obsolete or simply marginalized, it is a world that doesn’t fit into a twenty-second sound bite or a White House talking point. Otis has spent the last fifteen years travelling across America and around the globe documenting this world, and has a story to share about each stop along the way.