Joe Hott

Emerging bluegrass artist Joe Hott, who recently signed with Rural Rhythm Records, has released his first recording for the Mount Juliet, Tennessee-based label; West Virginia Rail, “a hard driving train song that never slows down.” Rural Rhythm are naturally effusive about

Visible behind the house built in the mid-1700s, long before West Virginia was a state, is Short Mountain. In that house Joe Hott’s grandfather lived from the 1920s. 6 foot 4 inches tall, the 22-year-old Joe (sometimes Joseph) Hott was born