For Booking Contact:
Susan Richison
phone: 940-761-2917
email: [email protected]
About The Crocagators
The Crocagators are a hard drivin blues rock trio with a southern flair. Based out of Wichita Falls,Texas. They combine old school blues with modern blues, classic and southern rock and soul, to get a truly unique sound. The group is made up of three musicians who have been playing most of there lives.
With the powerful and amazing guitar vocals and harp of Curtis Swampman Wayne himself and the never ending groove of bass player Trevor Warner and the steady and dynamic drumming of Bill Coleman. You get an outstanding stage performance.
This band really knows how to entertain a crowd and we look forward to working in your area real soon. We are a full time working band,available 7 nights a week.
About Curtis Wayne
Curtis Wayne comes from an eclectic background of music. His dad a doo-wop record collector and his mother a 1960's folk singer. He has a wide range of influences from Hank to Hendrix.
He grew up in a swampy slue playing blues, funk and rock. He didn't know they had a name for it. At a young age he sat out on the road touring with acts, such as, The Flying Burrito Brothers, Travis Tritt, Merle Haggard, Asleep at the Wheel, and Ace in the Hole Band.
After years of living in Nashville he moved back to Texas and started playing blues. Doing shows with Doyle Bramhall, Gatemouth Brown, Larry Gardener, Chris Dorte, and headlining a swamp blues show as Curtis "Swampman" Wayne.
He has spent time recording albums in Luckenbach, Texas with people like Roger Moon, Red Volkert, B.B. Morse, a.k.a. Merle Haggard's - The Strangers. He has also appeared on National Television - CBS "Hot Country Nights" with Joe Diffie, Faith Hill, Brooks and Dunn, Lorie White, and Radney Foster. Recently he has performed on PBS, which will air in the fall of 2008.
Curtis Wayne has played casinos, Amphitheaters, Clubs, Festivals, and a sold-out Reunion Arena in Dallas, Texas
Curtis is a utility player, a sideman and a frontman who plays guitar, banjo, harps, mandolin, dobro, fiddle, lap steel, slide guitar, and a 6-string bass.
He has been touring professionally for over 25 years.
His first record release of bluegrass/gospel was in 1984, and a national release on the Billboard Charts in 1985. He has played on numerous albums and singles through out the years.
About wildbill Coleman
Bill Coleman,better known as Wilbill or Uncle Bill was raised in south Texas,sports nut until age 19. Thats when Bill became interested in the drums through cousin John Kenneth.a pro drummer for more than 20 years around 1968. Bill.."s first real band was playing country in Jannis Joplin.."s uncle.."s band. Soon realizing that country wasn't his thing at the time. He went to California to work with some early Capitol Records artist,such as Quickmessenger Service,Intensified Tide.
Dissatisfied with the Cal scene. Bill headed back to Texas. Bill found himself in Dallas,playing with some of the best musicians and bands,such as SRV,Robin Knight and many more who would reach national recognition. In 1979 Bill migrated to Wichita Falls,Texas. There he has worked with nearly every musician in the area. In bands like Leroy Dewitt and trigger Happy,Seymour Hiney Trio,Texas Heat,Big Al and the hoouchhounds,Short of Breath,Easy Street,Groovezone,Workingman Band,Texas Boneyard,Joe Splawn.
About Trevor Warner
I have been playing bass since 1990. I've Played with various metal bands in Wichita Falls, Texas for a couple of years. Ready for a change. I packed up everything that would fit in a pickup truck and moved to Ft. Worth, Texas to play with a band called Prophecy. We played a lot of shows and festivals in the United States. Opening for top national acts from around the world, like Danzig, Malevolent Creation, Six Feet Under, Decide, Cradle of Filth, Exodus, and many many more. We were in magazines all around the world.
Prophecy was on a small record label/distribution through Corpse Gristle Records. I recorded one album called "Fore Told Fore Seen...." in 1998 and was on a 7 in. split record that was released in the Czech Republic.
I was endorsed by Jackson Guitars but wasn't getting the same deal as the other guitar players in the band were so I dropped it. I was with Prophecy for six years before moving back to Wichita Falls, Texas to be with family.
After taking a short break, I started playing with various bands around town, with Bill Coleman, playing any show we could get. Playing rock, blues, and country. We wound up starting are own sound company for bands that didn't have one or bands that where from out of town. Bands like The Fray, Altered, Stephen Pride, Daryle Dodd, Jimmy Boggs and friends, and many more. I was also the sound engineer for the Chris Brade Band for a year.
Itching to start playing again, I joined a red dirt band called Texas 240 for 6 months, where I met Curtis Wayne. Not happy with the amount of shows we were playing and different line up changes decided to quit the band. We asked Bill Coleman to form a new band which is now called The Crocagators.
For Booking Contact:
Susan Richison
phone: 940-761-2917
email: [email protected]
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