Cottondale Swamp

Hey Swampers! Here is an update from your friends here in Cottondale Swamp.

Firstly, we have a wicked cool new banner (below). It's big and bad a will grace the stage at future shows.... so take the next…

Cottondale Swamp / Johnny Mile and the Kilometers - Garage band Country and working class rock 'n roll. Two great Tampa Bay bands join forces to bring a great night of high octane nitro-burning rockin' roll! Very Special Guests: FayRoy…

Cottondale Swamp had a blast at last Friday night's "Live Dress Rehearsal" at The JunkYard in Port Richey. The band was getting warmed up for some upcoming swamp rock and outlaw country shows.

Friday, April 19th we play Fiddler's…

The band is hard at work putting together the new Cottondale Swamp show! We have a bunch of new songs! Original music and our favorite honky-tonk, outlaw county and rock 'n roll songs!. We are really pumped to start playing…

Saturday, January 26th at the Ringside Cafe was our big debut of the new Cottondale Swamp band. We had a blast playing to a packed club of enthusiastic people! We played new songs, old songs, and we played songs that…

We have two big shows to start the new year! January 26th at the Ringside Cafe in St. Petersburg, FL and The Broken String Fling on February 16th!

Cottondale Swamp is re-grouping after the loss of our band-mate Kenny Grube. Kenny is on the long road to recovery and it will be a long time before he is performing with Cottondale Swamp again. We hope, pray, and expect…

As many of you may already know, Kenny Grube our bigger-than-life front man suffered a heart attack, torn aorta and multiple strokes. This happened on Thursday October, 25th at 3 AM. He was rushed to the hospital by his 15…

Once in a while the phone rings and you offered an unexpected gift. Well, a couple days ago my phone rang (actually an e-mail arrived) and it was an offer to play a show with the Melody Trucks Band next…

Huge thanks to all the folks who came out to see us with the Kentucky Headhunters! The Cottondale Swamp fans were out in force! I saw as many Cottondale Swamp tee-shirts in the audience as I did Kentucky Headhunters…

As I write this, Cottondale Swamp is getting ready to open for the Kentucky Headhunters at the Central Park Performing Arts Center in Largo, FL. Thursday, August 23rd. We go on at 7:30 PM and the Kentucky Headhunterts go on…