About

James Linden Hogg is a multi-instrumentalist, singer, songwriter, author, and historian of American history. Inspired by his deep Louisiana roots, he has recorded five musical albums, with proceeds from the CDs helping to finance his college tuition. Hogg earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in history from Louisiana State University, where he graduated summa cum laude.

Hogg’s instruments include violin or fiddle, banjo, guitar, piano, bagpipes, mandolin, fife, penny-whistle, and accordion.

Hogg has authored two books. His first work, Finding Faith in the Waste Land: Short Stories on Life’s Quest for Meaning (2022), follows a young man’s journey through the mires of no-man’s land to find hopeful stories in a shattered world. Hogg published the work upon the one hundredth anniversary of the publication of T.S. Eliot’s famed poem. His second volume, A Day the War Stopped: The Story of a Civil War Truce (2025), explores a remarkable event in Louisiana’s history —the burial truce of Lieutenant Commander John Elliot Hart.

Hogg has had the honor of performing and/or recording with numerous Grammy award-winning artists, including Ricky Skaggs, Rhiannon Giddens, Mark O’Connor, Marty Raybon, Herb Pedersen, Larry Stewart, Billy Dean, Ronnie McDowell, Jim Brickman, John Conlee, Rhonda Vincent, Riders in the Sky, Michael Doucet, Sha Na Na’s Scott Powell, Danny O’Flaherty, Nelson Blanchard, Ron Yule, as well as the late George Jones, Jimi Jamison, Jed Marum, and Bobby Hicks. He has also had the distinction of opening for a United States President.

Hogg has performed at many venues, including the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival and on Mississippi riverboats, where he regularly conducts presentations on Southern history, culture, and river ecology for guests from around the world. He frequents many performing arts centers, festivals, civic engagements, museums, churches, and private gatherings. He also utilizes his talents to benefit students and veterans, often performing the bagpipes at military funeral services.

Hogg has been awarded several academic and musical awards, including the 2012 National History Day Championship (national finalist), the 2015 Northwestern State University Fiddle Championship, an honorary day, on July 2, 2017, from Ascension Parish, Louisiana, and, along with his father Jim, is one of the youngest inductees into the Louisiana Music Hall of Fame, 2025.

Hogg regularly posts videos on YouTube, his upcoming musical dates on Facebook, and photographs on Instagram. He heartily invites people to subscribe to his channel, like his page, and share his videos.

For musical bookings, please contact Jim Hogg. James Linden frequently plays music with his father, Jim Hogg, who accompanies him on the guitar.