Voted Best Americana band by The Current readers choice awards  in 2006! 

Voted Best Roots Band by the San Antonio Current Readers Choice Awards in 2002.

Critics Choice for Best Local Band by the San Antonio Express News in 2001.

Voted Best Local Live Band in the San Antonio Current Readers Choice Awards in 2001.

Voted Best Rockabilly Band for 2004 in San Antonio's Edge Magazine.

Mitch Webb voted Best Male Vocalist for 1998 in the San Antonio Current Music Awards.

Joe Reyes voted Best Songwriter for 1998 in the San Antonio Current Music Awards

Mitch Webb voted Best Local Entertainer for 2000 in the San Antonio Current Best of 2000 Awards.

Runner up for Best Rock Band of 2004 behind some band with a lot of envelopes and saliva in the San Antonio Currents Best of 2004 Awards.

Played Willie Nelson Picnic in 2002.

Made the Freeform American Roots chart (peaking at #13) issued by 3rd Coast Magazine for January - June of 2003.

Staff Pick for Best Rock Band 2003 by the San Antonio Current.

"...turbocharged garage rock... songs that are as strong as Superman's constitution" Jim Beal Jr., San Antonio Express News, 2/2/2001

"pure San Antonio rock-n-roll... on a foundation poured by the likes of the Sir Douglas Quintet, Sam The Sham, The Children and Sunny and the Sunliners" Jim Beal Jr., San Antonio Express News 1/4/2002

"Led by fearless showman, singer, songwriter, and guitarist Mitchell Webb, the band boasts a pair of the city's top guitarists, Joe Reyes and Dave Wasson..." Jim Beal Jr., San Antonio Express News 2/21/2001

"...classic Texas rock-n-roll, the Swindles entertain and enlighten and provide a soundtrack for fun that's almost unmatched" Jim Beal Jr., San Antonio Express News 4/26/2000

...rocks with abandon and proudly displays it's San Antonio roots... Jim Beal Jr. 12/19/2003

Warmed the stage for Los Lobos, Tom Petty, ZZ Top, Doug Sahm, Reckless Kelly, Bo Diddley, Hank III, Dick Dale, Silos, Bottle Rockets, Los Lonely Boys,  

"The Alamo has already produced one genuine legend in Doug Sahm and it's now nurturing the finest Texas rock-n-roll band I've heard..." Luke / Luke Magazine / Leicester UK, Winter 2000

"...combine the punk rock immediacy of the True Believers, the Tex-Mex persuasions of Sir Douglas Quintet and the  seedy innocence of a million garage dwellers..." Luke / Luke Magazine, Leicester UK / Winter 2000

"Swindles can nail you to the wall" Sam Kendrick, Action Magazine, 9/2001

"...a roaring ,rafter kicking beer-joint rock band which will leave an audience pleasantly wrung-out and musically sated." Sam Kendrick, Action Magazine, 9/2001

Special guests such as steel guitar wizard Denny Mathis (Pedal steel Hall of Fame), R&B bass ace Jack Barber (Sir Douglas Quintet), accordionist Gabriel Zavala (Stephanie), Frank Karpienski appear on "Songs In The Key Of T"

"It must be frustrating to work your ass off to gain a solid reputation as the best rock band in San Antonio, only to be consistently overshadowed by less-talented Austin acts". Tucker Teutsch III 12/5/2002

...the Sir Douglas Quintet represents San Antonio's greatest pop hope of yesteryear, while any number of Swindle tunes could make this band known country wide... San Antonio Current, 6/1999

“Mitch Webb's Tex-Mex balladeering and Spanglish twanging brings to mind being stuck driving through King Ranch on a Sunday Afternoon in a pickup truck without A/C, the windows wide-open and radio cranking for a sing-a-long to pass the time". San Antonio Current, 6/1999

"...plays and writes as if they were Elvis Costello & the Attractions, but had grown up in the hometown of the Sir Douglas Quintet, what's not to like"?  Rob Patterson, San Antonio Current, 3/2000

"For anyone that believes rock-n-roll is in decline. I invite that person to listen to this disc". (Drunk For Your Amusement) Brian Parrish, Scene Magazine, 7/1999

...Drunk is simply a great hip-shaking, beer-drinking rock 'n' roll..." Ben Ortiz, San Antonio Current, 12/1999

"Dave Wasson is one of the most tasteful blues guitarists on the planet" Jim Beal Jr., San Antonio Express News 5/2000

...the band creates some flat-out music that has a distinctive Alamo Town signature..., enough sharp guitar interplay to send the six-string fanatics into a swoon". Jim Beal Jr., San Antonio Express News, 11/2000

Joe Reyes nominated for 3 Grammys in 1999 & 2001 & 2002

Joe Reyes recipient of 1 Grammy in 2002 for Freddy Fender CD (production)

Joe Reyes has played on numerous Grammy nominated and winning albums.

"The most fun you can have with your clothes on!"  Riks Reviews, www.rikksrevues.com

"Texas music from the heart of the lone star state. ( 5 Stars Out of 6 )"  Riks Reviews, www.rikksrevues.com

From deep in the heart of Texas comes a rock 'n' roll tornado ready to knock you off your boots! "There is embedded in the soil of this region we call South Texas a primal chord. A gritty and raw flavor that once and a while wells up from the earth and fills those in tune enough to let it influence them and their music. The Swindles have found this 'spring of music.' Hell, they could bottle beer from it..."  Call them what you want, roots rock, Americana, country rock, trash twang, the Swindles dig deep from their San Antonio backgrounds to bring strong recordings and wild live shows to the people. "When you think of Texas music, it's unlikely that the first place you think of is San Antonio, but the home of The Alamo has already produced one genuine legend in Doug Sahm and it's now nurturing the finest Texas rock 'n' roll band I've heard in a long time. The Swindles combine the punk rock immediacy of the True Believers, the Tex-Mex persuasions of Sir Douglas Quintet and the seedy innocence of a million garage dwellers, all wrapped up in songs about girls, their mama's cars or favorite bongs."   That's just a glimmer of the  things being said about the quintessential San Antonio-bred and based Swindles. Formed in 1997, the Swindles have twanged and twisted their way thru hundreds of gigs from Terlingua to Marble Falls and all spots in between. Their 13-song Texas turbo-rocking monster CD, aptly titled "Drunk For Your Amusement" has received critical acclaim and airplay all over the world.  These boys have pulled together the influences of Buddy Holly, enchiladas, Chuck Berry, gravel roads, Rocky Erickson, El Patron,  Doug Sahm… You get the idea!!! They are  truly one of those bands you can listen to again and again and again and again and again and again...The Swindles' lineup consists of Paul Ward on drums, Bart Nichols on bass, Joe Reyes on guitar, Dave Wasson on guitar, and Mitchell Justice Webb on vocals and guitar. Each of The Swindles hails from San Antonio and brings his distinctive background and sound to the band. Now, what do we tell you about the gigs in the brothels of Acuna with Big Country, the wild nights in Austin, Tacoland and Ram our trusted compadre, Blanco Cafe’s Enchiladas, Bar America, Cafe Acapulco? That, my friend, must be discussed in person. So pull up a chair, open up a tab, and we'll talk.