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| Hub was raised on a working cattle ranch in central Wyoming. After high school, he took up the drifting cowboy life for a few years and worked on ranches in Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, and Arizona. In 1990, he was an outrider/teamster on the Wyoming Centennial Wagon Train. Hub started playing guitar over twenty years ago, mostly so he could play the old songs he grew up with. Candy has lived in Wyoming over twenty-five years and has been playing fiddle almost twenty years. She learned to drive a team just prior to the Wyoming Wagon Train, and was one of two women teamsters to complete the entire trip. She says she enjoys driving mule teams best. Hub and Candy, along with a couple of other folks, became known as the Wagon Train Band and played almost every night around the campfire. Hub has won several writing awards in recent years from American Songwriter Magazine, a national publication from Nashville, Tennessee. Candy and Hub have appeared on stage and opened for such acts as Baxter Black, Chris LeDoux, Riders of the Purple Sage, and Buck Ramsey. In 1992 and 1993 they toured nationally and played in such diverse places as Grass VAlley, California's Hobrook Hotel, and in downtown New York City on Wall Street. They have coined the phrase "Cowboy Folk Music" to describe their lifestyle and the music they love. Their seven year old son Tucker, is already showing signs of carrying on the tradition, as he plays and sings along whenever his busy schedule allows. They have added Western Swing music to their sound, along with a couple new members. They are known as Hub & Candy with Sagebrush Swing, and are already well known around the area. Jim Garry, founder of Great Plains Lore & Natural History, Inc., says, "I have worked with Hub Whitt on ranches and at cowboy music festivals. He is both a good cowboy and a fine musician and performer. Candy Whitt is a very good musician and I would add, based on discussions I've had with her, well versed in the theory of sharing that music with and teaching others. Cowboy music if folk music, best shared by members of the folk from which it springs. I can recommend Hub and CAndy to you as accomplished mucicians of real cowboy songs. They are real; cowboys, of the tradition and able to share that with others |
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