Otis Gibbs

i'm back home in indianapolis for a few
days and then i head out to boston to
play at club passim...last week was
like walking through bizarro world...i
could get used to hangin out in
nashville...the show at the station inn
went great...i met lots of new folks
and had the pleasure of having ken
coomer sit in on drums...he played on
my latest record....it would have
made more sense for us to play the
songs that he recorded...but we
decided it would be more fun to
throw him a curveball...he hit it
out...we played "daughter of a truck
drivin man" with him to close the
set....i remember lookin off to the
side and thinkin to myself "wow!!
...that guy looks a lot like steve
earle"....it was him...it's not every
day that steve earle comes to a fellas
show..he said some nice stuff to me
afterwards and then we bitched
about bush for a short while....it
was very nice to say the least

i played a show the next day at
the basement...talk about a great
venue for acoustic music....it's very
small and very dark....the sound
was great and the crowd was into
it...very intimate setting....i was
part of a party put on by eric
babcock of catamount....eric was
the founder of checkered past
and bloodshot records and he's a
very cool guy....it was really nice
of him to let me on the bill...you
can find out more about catamount
at www.catamountco.com