Cole Swindell

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Cole Swindell
A head shot of country music singer Cole Swindell
Swindell in 2021.
Background information
Birth name Colden Rainey Swindell[1]
Born (1983-06-30) June 30, 1983 (age 41)[1]
Bronwood, Georgia, U.S.
Origin Franklin, Tennessee, U.S.
Genres
Occupation(s)
  • Singer
  • songwriter
Instruments Vocals
Years active 2013–present
Labels Warner Bros. Nashville
Website coleswindell.com

Colden Rainey Swindell (born June 30, 1983) is an American country music singer and songwriter. He has written singles for Craig Campbell, Thomas Rhett, Scotty McCreery, and Luke Bryan, and has released four albums for Warner Bros. Records Nashville. He has released thirteen singles, eight of which have reached number one on the Hot Country Songs and/or Country Airplay charts. Three more singles have reached the Top 10.

Early life

Swindell was born on June 30, 1983 to William Keith Swindell and Betty Carol Rainey. His father died unexpectedly on September 2, 2013, at 65.[2] His mother died in September 2021. He grew up in Bronwood, Georgia, and has two brothers and a stepbrother.[2]

Swindell attended Terrell Academy in Dawson, Georgia.[3] Swindell attended Georgia Southern University, where he majored in marketing.[4] He met Luke Bryan, who attended the same university some years earlier and was also a fellow Sigma Chi member,[5] at the fraternity house when Bryan came back to Statesboro to do a show. They kept in touch, and after Swindell left college in 2007 and moved to Nashville, he sold merchandise for Bryan for three years, and wrote songs on the road.[6]

Music career

Songwriting

In 2010, Swindell signed a publishing deal with Sony/ATV Music Publishing.

Swindell wrote Craig Campbell's "Outta My Head",[7] Luke Bryan's "Just a Sip", "Beer in the Headlights", "Roller Coaster", "Out Like That", "I'm Hungover", "In Love with the Girl", "Love in a College Town", "Shore Thing", "Shake the Sand", and "The Sand I Brought to the Beach", Thomas Rhett's "Get Me Some of That", and Scotty McCreery's "Water Tower Town", and "Carolina Eyes". He also co-wrote Florida Georgia Line's "This Is How We Roll" with Bryan, who was featured on the song. Chris Young also had a song on his A.M. album co-written by Swindell, "Nothin' but the Cooler Left".

2013–2015: Cole Swindell

In 2013, after his independently released debut single "Chillin' It", was played heavily by satellite radio channel "The Highway" on SiriusXM, the song began to climb the charts,[1] Swindell signed a record deal with Warner Music Nashville. The song was produced by Jody Stevens, who is the son of Luke Bryan's producer, Jeff Stevens,[8] and was formerly one-half of the duo Fast Ryde. The recording of "Chillin' It" was a demo consisting of Swindell's vocals and Stevens performing all instrumentation, and it was sent to radio before it had been mastered.[8]

Swindell released his self-titled debut album on February 18, 2014.[9] Luke Bryan's guitarist, Michael Carter, produced the rest of the album. Along with Lee Brice, Swindell opened Luke Bryan's 2014 That's My Kind of Night Tour. The tour dates began in mid-January and ran into early March.[10] "Chillin' It" became a top-five hit on Country Airplay and number 1 single on Hot Country Songs. The album's second single is "Hope You Get Lonely Tonight", which Swindell co-wrote with both members of Florida Georgia Line. The album's third single, "Ain't Worth the Whiskey" released to country radio on November 3, 2014. It reached number one on the Country Airplay chart in April 2015. The album's fourth single, "Let Me See Ya Girl", was released to country radio on April 20, 2015. It reached number two on the Country Airplay chart in November 2015.

On November 17, 2014, Swindell released a five-song digital EP titled The Down Home Sessions. The EP release coincided with his headlining tour of the same name.[11]

Swindell won the ACM New Artist of the Year Award in April 2015.[12]

2015–2018: You Should Be Here

The album's first single, "You Should Be Here" was released to country radio on December 14, 2015. It was written with Ashley Gorley. It reached at number one on the Country Airplay and Hot Country Songs charts in April 2016. The album's second single, "Middle of a Memory" released to country radio on May 2, 2016. It reached at number one on the Country Airplay in November 2016. The album's third single, "Flatliner" (featuring Dierks Bentley) released to country radio on January 23, 2017. It reached at number two on the Country Airplay in August 2017. The album's fourth single, "Stay Downtown" released to country radio on September 5, 2017. "You Should Be Here", "Middle of a Memory" and "Flatliner" all hit No.1 on Mediabase country radio singles chart.[13]

Swindell also released a music video for the song which featured a video of him telling his father he received a record contract and subsequent montages of Cole and his brothers grieving outside of the family home and at their father's grave. The video also shows images of Swindell's rising popularity while clearly conveying that he wanted to be able to see his father and share this fame experience with him.[14]

2018–present: All of It and Stereotype

Swindell released "Break Up in the End", the lead single from his third album, on February 23, 2018.[15] Swindell's third album, All of It, was released on August 17, 2018.[16] After the album became available for pre-order in July 2018, Swindell released the number-one track "Love You Too Late" as a promotional single.[17] "Love You Too Late" was announced as the album's official second single, being released to radio on November 19, 2018.[18]

The lead single from Swindell's fourth studio album, "Single Saturday Night", was released on May 22, 2020.[19] It was followed by "Never Say Never", a duet with Lainey Wilson, on November 19, 2021.[20] Swindell released his fourth album Stereotype on April 8, 2022.[21]

Discography

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Main article: Cole Swindell discography

Studio albums

Tours

Headlining

  • Reason to Drink Tour (2018)[22]
  • The Down to Earth Tour (2020)[23]

Supporting

Awards and nominations

Year Awards Category Recipient/Work Result Ref
2014 CMT Music Awards Breakthrough Video of the Year "Chillin’ It" Nominated [24]
2015 Academy of Country Music Awards New Artist of the Year Cole Swindell Won [25]
2015 iHeartRadio Music Awards Best New Artist Nominated [26]
2016 Country Music Association Awards New Artist of the Year Nominated [27]
2017 iHeartRadio Music Awards Country Song of the Year "You Should Be Here" Nominated [28]
Best Lyrics Nominated
CMT Music Awards Video of the Year "Middle of a Memory" Nominated [29]
2019 CMT Music Awards Male Video of the Year "Break Up in the End" Nominated [30]
2019 Grammy Awards Best Country Song "Break Up in the End" Nominated [31]
2019 Academy of Country Music Awards Song of the Year "Break Up in the End" Nominated [32]

References

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