Neil Cotton & Hawk’s Nest
is a 3 or 4-piece band that performs Country music and good old Rock ’n Roll!
Band Members: (Left to right)
Gary Creary, Neil Cotton, Paul Gardiner, Robert Porter.
Audio Samples:
Mayor Of Old Yonge St.
Bio:
Neil Cotton
Date of Birth: 03/20/46
Education: BSc U of Waterloo, 1969.
Family History: Married 34 years to Wendy (Lehman), 2 children, 1 grandchild.
Former Occupation: Science teacher.
Present Occupation: Having fun (family, music, golf, hockey).
I was raised in the West-end of Toronto. I took my first music lesson ( lap-steel) when I was 8 years old. I enjoyed music but I thought I was going to be a professional hockey player so concentrated on sports while in school.
It wasn’t until I was teaching school that I started to take more of an interest in performing music. I was about 27 at the time. I had always envied those people who could sing and play guitar at campfires etc. To do this was my original goal. I never thought that I would be able to perform with a band on stage but it eventually happened.
I have played in 3 bands over the years: The Racqueteers, Rebel Hill and most recently Hawk’s Nest. We play in the Toronto-Hamilton Ontario area doing country and rock&roll, both covers and originals.
Song List:
| 5 O’clock Somewhere | Mama Don’t Let Your Babies |
| Beer For My Horses | Margarittaville |
| Big City | Mayor Of Old Yonge Street |
| Boot Scootin’ Boogie | Memphis |
| Brown Eyed Girl | Migratory Snowbirds |
| Bud’s Bounce | Move It On Over |
| Chattahoochee | Oh Lonesome Me |
| Dumas Walker | Proud Mary |
| Fast As You | Sleep Walk |
| Folsom Prison Blues | Sold (Auction Song) |
| Green River | Steel Guitar Rag |
| Guitars & Cadillacs | That’ll Be The Day |
| Heart Of Gold | Up On Cripple Creek |
| Honky Tonk Attitude | Where’m I Gonna Live |
| I Love This Bar | Whisky Ain’t Working |
| Joey B Goode | Women On The Trashy Side |
| Jukebox In My Mind | Wooly Bully |
| Little Sister | Working Man blues |
| Living On Love | You Ain’t Goin No Where |
| Lodi |
