Swamptown Getdown Returns to Waycross
It’s time once again to get down in the swamp, at Swamptown Getdown Music & Arts Festival this Friday and Saturday, March 15 & 16, at the Okefenokee Campgrounds in Waycross, Georgia. Camping is free on site.
[Videos courtesy of FunkCity.net, Tom Pragliola,
Volke Mon, Roy Loeffler, and Custard Pie]
The music lineup is a superb collection of Florida bands with deep Georgia roots and 15 of Georgia’s best and swampiest, funkiest, grittiest rockers. Music kicks off Friday at 6 with Brothers Still, and Electric Owl gets the last late word with a set starting at 1:30! Thunderbird Blues Band gets the party started Saturday at 2 pm, and Custard Pie will play until somebody cuts the power, most likely.
FLORIDA
The Florida contingent includes the king of the pedal steel guitar and his awesome new custom lap steel, Roosevelt Collier, joined by two of the best players in the business: Matt Lapham on bass and Anthony ‘AC’ Cole on drums. Also on the bill is brilliant guitar slinger Bobby Lee Rodgers and his trio, with Brian Lange and Brian Tate; he has performed with many of Georgia’s greats, including Jimmy Herring, Jeff Sipe (Apt. Q-258), and Col. Bruce Hampton, Ret., of blessed memory.
The Melody Trucks Band is only in its second year of existence, but they are in demand far and wide as purveyors of great rock, Southern and otherwise. The band includes: Melody Trucks, percussion, vocals; Willis Gore, guitar, vocals; Brady Clampitt, guitar, vocals; West Brook, slide guitar, vocals; Shane Platten, bass, vocals; Shaun Taunton, drums; and Isaac Corbitt, harmonica, vocals.
Bonnie Blue, like the Melody Trucks Band, works out of Jacksonville, and they too have toured much of the country with their outstanding blend of rock, blues, funk, and the Southern thing, as Patterson Hood described it. Bonnie Blue are: Bradley Churchman, guitar, vocals; Willis Gore, guitar, vocals; John Wilson, Hammond B3, keyboards, vocals; Adam Kenneway, bass; and Jeremy Mayr, drums.
Roosevelt Collier headline Friday night’s festivities; Bobby Lee Rodgers and Bonnie headline Saturday.
GEORGIA
You get to hear 14 outstanding exponents of the Georgia rock experience across a variety of genres, with good old rock at the heart of it all.
From hometown Waycross come Pine Box Dwellers (what a great name!); they had us at “swampadelic.” So do Electric Owl, who stuff blues and funk into their rock. Valdosta offers Custard Pie, the hardest-working band anywhere, any time, and funky blues and soul from Dirty Bird & the Flu.
St. Simon’s contributes Thunderfoot Blues Band with deep rock roots and Coco and His Nillaz. Rockers Milltown Road come from St. Mary’s.
The Justin Spivey Band will bring the country rock side of things from Axson, as do Buckhead’s Ty Manning and the Slawdog Biscuits. And there will be Southern cosmic rock from Back City Woods, drawing from Macon to Marietta and points in between.
Brothers Still, Rider, Them Vagabonds, and Lazy Lightning round out this lineup. You KNOW you’re gonna go home smilin’!
FRIDAY
6:00 PM BROTHERS STILL
7:00 PM JUSTIN SPIVEY BAND
8:00 PM ROYAL JOHNSON
9:00 PM RIDER
10:00 PM ROOSEVELT COLLIER
11:30 PM MELODY TRUCKS BAND
12:30 AM PINE BOX DWELLERS
1:30 AM ELECTRIC OWL
SATURDAY
2:00 PM THUNDERBIRD BLUES BAND
3:00 PM COCO & HIS NILLAZ
4:00 PM TY MANNING & THE SLAWDOG BISCUITS
5:00 PM THEM VAGABONDS
6:00 PM BACK CITY WOODS
7:00 PM DIRTY BIRD & THE FLU
8:00 PM LAZY LIGHTNING
9:00 PM PINE BOX DWELLERS
10:00 PM BOBBY LEE RODGERS TRIO
11:30 PM BONNIE BLUE
12:30 AM CUSTARD PIE
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