The McDowell Family Tradition                     

          Touching the Past,

                                Present, and Future

                                                           with Music                                                                                           
 

This site covers information and pictures on the The McDowell Family ...
The family tradition of country music started in 1949 with Porter McDowell, included his son, David who started his own band, Sweet Water Junction Band in 1979. Passing the music down to his children,  In 1995 the family started traveling full time, eight children, across this nation, the entire immediate McDowell Family, singing their own brand of Southern Gospel Music.  After coming off the road and taking a rest...in 2002 they made preparations to go back to the band's/family's musical roots, which were in country and southern music.  They took back their father's original band name of Sweet Water Junction Band. As long as there is a demand, the Christmas CD and gospel projects from those days can still be purchased / heard right here or you can find them on Amazon and also on CD Baby (the gospel & Christmas projects) or CD Baby (for the country songs). 
Residing in the border hills of the Carolinas, as of Late July, 2019, they have retired the family band. The official name of the group was  Sweet Water Junction Band ... a Family Tradition since 1949.  This family band had consisted of the two oldest girls Reshana Marie and Tasha, a dynamic duo of talent and beauty, along with David (the father), Shaun, Sheldon and Chase McDowell along with son-in-law Tim McGatha.  The focus of this band is to "just be themselves" and do what they do best, which is their country fried roots!    Their goal  was to deliver to you the best of their talents which God has so graciously given to them.  So really the main change from the old days was just their variety in music with an assortment of Country and Southern music for your enjoyment. Please check back later as they are updating their family site to include many photo albums, a family tree, and information and pictures covering the past years of their singing road travels. They will also include general family information (and pictures) on all the children, since they were babies! 
Please visit their band site at  SWEET WATER JUNCTION BAND  or click on the The Sweet Water Junction Band Site,  link on the left for more music, pictures, and the history of the Family Tradition of country music which started in 1949. 

To be added to their e-mail list please fill in the form to the left.

Visit their Facebook PAGE , You Tube and their  MY SPACE    become a friend, a fan and subscribe on these sites.  As of July 2017, Reshana Marie, although stayed with the family band until it's retirement in 2019, has also started her own band called "Reshana Marie" a band that included a good friend on drums, Cody, and her husband Tim, her father Dave McDowell and her youngest brother, Chase McDowell. For more information and her performance dates go to her
official website "Reshana Marie" Band.
 

If you'd like to keep in touch                                with our family you can contact us at            info@sweetwaterjunctionband.com or mcdowells@themcdowellfamily.com 

The McDowell Family  Copyright © 2020, all rights reserved