page_title: Otis Gibbs
section_title: Music career
hierarchical_section_title: Otis Gibbs / Music career
caption_attribution_description: English: SXSW 2009: Jovita's, Austin, TX, March 21, 2009 (Twangfest party)
context_page_description: Otis Gibbs is an American alt-country singer-songwriter and podcaster who has independently released several albums since 2002.
context_section_description: 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 him as Gibbs a "storyteller's storyteller" with an "independent spirit."
  His most recent album, "Souvenirs of a Misspent Youth" has been 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".
caption: SXSW 2009: Jovita's, Austin, TX
  March 21, 2009 (Twangfest party)
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