A Bit of history about Hub Whitt...
Hub not only sings the
songs of the cowboy, he grew up living the life.
He
was born near Thermopolis, Wyoming and moved with his family to different
ranches throughout the region. When he was 14, he went out on the wagon for a
ranching outfit in central
Wyoming.
He spent the next few years drifting around Arizona, Montana, and New Mexico
living in sheep wagons, a brush lean-to, and an old stage station that is still
in use today as a ranch house. Hub suffered his share of injuries. Three times
horses have dragged him through sagebrush with his leg still in the stirrup.
After an accident at 18, he lost a leg from above the knee. For 15 years he guided fall hunting camps in the
wilderness around Cody, Wyoming. Hub credits his ability to observe and recall
details to the time spent alone outdoors. He brings these details to life in his
music.
Hub was
part of the Wyoming Centennial Wagon Train in 1990. This was a trip that lasted
30 days and traveled from Fort Caspar (Casper) to Cody, Wyoming. During this
trip, Hub formed the Wagon Train Band, which played every night around the
campfire. In July of 1990, Hub traveled to Idaho to be one of the ambassadors
from Wyoming for Idaho's centennial wagon train.
Hub traveled from 1990 through 1993, playing music full time. During the summer of 1992, he opened for Chris LeDoux in Montana, Wyoming, Idaho, and Utah. Hub traveled to New York City and played in downtown Manhattan. He was also featured in Grass Valley, California that fall. During the next few years, Hub opened for, and appeared on stage with, such acts as Baxter Black, Riders of the Purple Sage, Jean Prescott, and Brenn Hill.
In the late nineties, Hub was filmed by CNN for part of the network's millennium series. This was a program about the last one thousand years of history. Hub was filmed in a wagon scene, and several of his original songs were featured throughout the segment.
An accomplished songwriter, Hub has won awards from American Songwriter Magazine for his compositions, "One More Rodeo" and "When the Nighthawk Hollered Horses." His music has been recorded by artists in Montana, Wyoming, and Nebraska. In 2006, Hub was selected for the artists' roster in the Wyoming Arts Council's Folk Life Division. Hub has performed at the Nicolaysen Art Museum in Casper, Wyoming.
Hub
enjoys sharing his gift with young people and has participated for many years at
the annual Buffalo
Bill
Historical Center's "Cowboy Songs and Range Ballads" program in Cody,
Wyoming. He
has also hosted its summer program, The Frontier Festival, educating school
children and continuing the tradition of
teaching
old songs to new generations. Hub has been invited to writing and English
classes to teach about writing poetry and songs. He easily relates to students
of all ages and includes a mixture of story telling, music and historical
information in his lectures.
Hub is currently working on his third album, writing songs, teaching his son to play the guitar, writing poetry, and performing throughout the year. True to his roots, he continues to cowboy when he can.
To learn more about Hub Whitt, please email him for more information.
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