Hub Whitt

Singer, Song Writer, Cowboy

    Hub not only sings the songs of the cowboy, he grew up living the life. He spent several 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.

    Hub married his first wife, Candy, in 1992 and together they traveled playing music full time. During that summer, they opened for Chris LeDoux in Montana, Wyoming, Idaho, and Utah. Hub and Candy traveled to New York City and played in downtown Manhattan. Hub 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 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 participated for many years at the annual Buffalo Bill Historical Center's "Cowboy Songs and Range Ballads" school program in Cody. 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 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.

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