We provide a home for independent artist’s
GREGORY ALAN ISAKOV – “AMSTERDAM” (OFFICIAL VIDEO)
Music video for “Amsterdam” from the album The Weatherman by Gregory Alan Isakov
iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/album/the-weatherman/id659613712
CD / LP: merchtable.com/search?utf8=✓&q=isakov
Director: Laura Goldhamer
In collaboration with…
Baylee West & Basil
Michelle Christiance
Brynn Ronning
Bonnie Paine
The song “Amsterdam” was partly inspired by time Gregory Alan Isakov spent in The Netherlands. He is returning to Amsterdam, as well as many other cities, on a nineteen-date European tour supporting the European release of The Weatherman (Suitcase Town Music/Thirty Tigers), which is set for October 13th.
European Live Dates & Ticketing Info:
10/16/14 – Oxford, UK
(with Count Drachma)
The Jericho Tavern
http://www.thejerichooxford.co.uk/
10/17/14 – Brighton, UK
(with Stephen Kellogg)
Komedia Studio Bar
http://www.komedia.co.uk/brighton/studio-bar
10/18/14 – Bristol, UK
(with Stephen Kellogg)
Louisiana
http://www.thelouisiana.net/
10/19/14 – Glasgow, UK
(with Stephen Kellogg)
King Tut’s
http://www.kingtuts.co.uk/
10/20/14 – Manchester, UK
(with Stephen Kellogg)
Gullivers
https://www.facebook.com/GulliversNQ
10/21/14 – London, UK
(with Stephen Kellogg)
Bush Hall
http://www.bushhallmusic.co.uk/
10/23/14 – Brussels, Belgium
(with Stephen Kellogg)
Witloof Bar
http://botanique.be/en
10/24/14 – Nijmegen, The Netherlands
(with Stephen Kellogg)
Doornroosje
http://www.doornroosje.nl/
10/25/14 – Amsterdam, The Netherlands – SOLD OUT
(with Stephen Kellogg)
Bitterzoet
http://www.bitterzoet.com/
10/26/14 – Hamburg, Germany
(with Stephen Kellogg)
Prinzenbar
http://www.docks-prinzenbar.de/
10/27/14 – Cologne, Germany
(with Stephen Kellogg)
Studio 672
http://www.stadtgarten.de/
10/29/14 – Oslo, Norway
(with Stephen Kellogg)
Parkteatret
http://parkteatret.no/
10/30/14 – Stockholm, Sweden – SOLD OUT
(with Stephen Kellogg)
Nalen
http://www.nalen.com/
10/31/14 – Copenhagen, Denmark – SOLD OUT
(with Feivel)
Ideal Bar/VEGA
http://vega.dk/
11/1/14 – Berlin, Germany
(with Glowing House)
Privatclub
http://www.privatclub-berlin.de/
11/3/14 – Vienna, Austria
(with Marcus Wiebusch)
Arena
http://arenavie.com/web/
11/4/14 – Munich, Germany
(with Glowing House)
Amphere
http://www.muffatwerk.de/en/
11/5/14 – Stans, Switzerland – SOLD OUT
(with Glowing House)
Pillow Song Loft
http://www.pillowsong.com/
11/7/14 – Paris, France
(with Wild Child)
La Maroquinerie
http://www.lamaroquinerie.fr/
jjjj
– 10/18/14 – Utrecht, the Netherlands Ramblin’ Roots Festival, NL
UK and IRELAND
Sunday 19th October 2014: EASTBOURNE (East Sussex) – Upstairs at The Lamb (01323 841414 / www.spyboy.co.uk) £16.50 adv / door, 7pm doors
Tuesday 21st October 2014: SHEFFIELD – WagonWheel Presents… Shakespeares (www.wagonwheelmedia.co.uk / www.wegottickets.com) £9 adv / £11 door, 8pm doors
Thursday 23rd October 2014: BRISTOL – venue TBC
Friday 24th October 2014: NEWPORT (South Wales) – Le Pub (01633 221477 / www.lepub.co.uk / www.wegottickets.com) £TBC adv / £TBC door, 8pm doors
Saturday 25th October 2014: BARNSTAPLE (North Devon) – Pilton Village Hall (01271 373392 / threesticks.co.uk) £8 adv / door, 8pm doors
Monday 27th October 2014: LEICESTER – The Musician (0116 251 0080 / www.themusicianpub.co.uk / www.wegottickets.com) £10 adv / door, 8pm
Tuesday 28th October 2014: BEDFORD – Esquires (01234 340120 / www.seetickets.com) £7, 8pm
(NEW) Thursday 30th October 2014: GALWAY – Monroe’s Live (091-583397) (http://monroes.ie/) (early show)
(NEW) Friday 31st October 2014: DUBLIN – The DC Music Club (087-6825306 / www.musiclee.ie) €13 euros adv / €15 euros door, 9pm doors
(NEW) Sunday 2nd November 2014: LONDON Islington – What’s Cookin’ Afternoon Sunday Sessions @ The Union Chapel (07904 210218 / www.unionchapel.org.uk) £12 adv / £14 door, 2.30pm
1. Cuzmina
2. Ghosts Of Our Fathers
3. Back In My Day Blues
4. It Was A Train
5. The Darker Side Of Me
6. No Rust On My Spade
7. Wrong Side Of Gallatin
8. Nancy Barnett
9. Kokomo Bar
10. With A Gun In My Hand
Here is the video of ‘The Darker Side Of Me’
jjjj
Otis Gibbs is a man in search of an honest experience. Some people refer to him as a folk artist, but that is a simplistic way to describe a man who has planted over 7,000 trees, slept in hobo jungles, walked with nomadic shepherds in the Carpathian Mountains, been strip-searched by dirty cops in Detroit, and has an FBI file. Otis has played everywhere from labor rallies in Wisconsin, to anti-war protests in Texas, Austria and the Czech Republic, Feed & Seed Stores in the Midwestern U.S. and in countless, theatres, festivals, bars and living rooms. Much of his work concentrates on the world that is ignored by pop culture. Sometimes forgotten, obsolete or simply marginalised, 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 traveling across America and abroad documenting this world, and has a story to share about each stop along the way.
Otis grew up in the rural town of Wanamaker, Indiana. He first stepped on stage at the age of four, when he sang Jimmie Rodgers Waiting for a Train at a neighbourhood honky tonk. While his parents worked countless hours trying to make ends meet, Otis was often in his uncle’s care. Not accustomed to parenthood, the uncle was sometimes bored, so the two would frequent bars, where Otis sang for tip money (which meant more booze for his uncle). Otis was hooked, and would often ask if they could go back and sing some more songs. The answer, “Only if you promise to never tell your parents”.
Otis started working when he was in high school. He stacked concrete blocks, flipped burgers, drove an ice cream truck, pumped gas, and did countless other crummy jobs. After discovering writers like Edward Abbey, Henry Miller and Lawrence Ferlinghetti, he started questioning what he was doing with his life. He was tired of working jobs that didn’t stimulate, or interest him in the least. So, in his own words, he decided to just drop out.Over the next four years, Gibbs earned and lived off less than $3,000 a year and had never been happier. He got rid of his car and shared apartments with artists, musicians and radicals (often living with 5 to 10 people). He also took advantage of the free time and wrote hundreds of songs. Otis sacrificed many of the comforts most of us take for granted, so that he could live a creative life.
The next few years were spent touring and releasing four indie records
until work began on Souvenirs Of A Misspent Youth. Otis currently resides in Nashville, Tennessee with his long time girlfriend, Amy Lashley, their dog and two cats. Recently, he’s been examining ways of using bird feeding as a form of civil disobedience.