Mike Blakely & The Whiskey Traders November 13, 2010

In 1998 Mike Blakely & The Whiskey Traders made it’s first trip over the Atlantic to perform in Europe. Blakely’s bass player, Donnie Price, had toured Europe with another band, and had made enough contacts to put together the first tour. The band has toured the continent at least once a year ever since, performing in Switzerland, Italy, Austria, Germany, Holland, and France.

The rest of the year will find Blakely and his band tearing down the Texas blacktop to the next show “somewhere between Cow Town and Corpus” performing as Mike Blakely and the Whiskey Traders, a configuration that includes drummer Jeff Brosch and steel guitarist Scott Martin. Blakely also works as a solo artist, and in duos with other Texas songwriters such as john Arthur martinez, John Greenberg, Thomas Michael Riley, Walt Wilkins, Tommy Alverson, Davin James, Steven Fromholz, Brian Burns, and Jeff “Wild Horse” Posey.