Hotgun is an album purported to be the self-titled debut record of a band called Hotgun, released by tax-scam label Guinness Records.

The album is actually a composite, combining demo recordings made by members of a Nashville area band called Ethos (R. Stevie Moore, Victor Lovera, Roger Ferguson & Billy Anderson), with cover versions of popular songs recorded by employees of Nashville recording studio, Audio Media, originally intended for compilation albums.

[1] As the release of a tax scam label, the album came with minimal documentation.

While all of the cover versions were credited to the correct songwriters, the original songs were all credited to Victor Lovera, a friend and collaborator of R. Stevie Moore's and fellow member of the band Ethos when in actuality only the two solo acoustic songs ("Joe Pepitone" [a] and "My Father's Son") were written by Lovera himself, with the other original songs being collaborations between Lovera and Moore.

[1] Bart Bealmear, with the aid of R. Stevie Moore and former Audio Media owner Paul Whitehead, was able to determine just how the three Ethos songs ("Show Business", "Nashville Bats" [b] and "Love Graph"), all recorded at the Audio Media studio in 1973, found their way onto the album.