Mary Holt with the Carpenter Ants
Self-released

“Singer-songwriter Mary Hott is a seventh generation West Virginian who has devotedly researched since 2015 to make this album which reveals the untold brutal truths of the mine wars – caste-like oppression, sexual mistreatment of young women, and disguised slavery of the mine workers. Hott has a singing career that ranges from post punk to big band jazz as well as having studied piano at Berklee College of Music and blues harmonica with Jim Fitting. So, she knows her way around a tune. Here, though, the emphasis is not how she sings but what she is singing about. It’s not for the faint of heart.”
- Jim Hynes