Cole Swindell
| Cole Swindell | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Colden Rainey Swindell |
| Born |
June 30, 1983 Glennville, Georgia, USA |
| Origin | Bronwood, Georgia |
| Genres | Country |
| Occupation(s) |
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| Instruments | Vocals |
| Years active | 2013–present |
| Labels | Warner Bros. Nashville |
| Associated acts | |
| Website | coleswindell |
Colden Rainey "Cole" Swindell (born June 30, 1983) is an American country music singer and songwriter. Swindell has written singles for Craig Campbell, Thomas Rhett, Scotty McCreery, and Luke Bryan, and has released two albums for Warner Bros. Records Nashville. He has released six singles: "Chillin' It", "Hope You Get Lonely Tonight", "Ain't Worth the Whiskey", "Let Me See Ya Girl" "You Should Be Here" and "Middle of a Memory", all of which have charted in the top 5 of Hot Country Songs and/or Country Airplay.
His parents are William Keith Swindell and Betty Carol Rainey. His father died unexpectedly on September 2, 2013 at 65. He grew up in Bronwood, Georgia, and has two brothers.
Swindell attended Georgia Southern University, where he majored in marketing. He met Luke Bryan, who attended the same university some years earlier and was also a fellow Sigma Chi member, 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.
In 2010, Swindell signed a publishing deal with Sony/ATV Music Publishing.
Cole Swindell wrote Craig Campbell's "Outta My Head";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".
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