Yes. All over the country. I LOVE IT! I feel more at home on the road than anywhere else.

I wish we had this 20 years ago! I've travelled all over the country for years now, always pulling into cold towns and having to prove yourself to a new audience. Now, in the last couple of years, people have already heard our music over the internet and know who we are and what to expect. It's great!

No. I enjoy doing things on my own and not having people tell me how to play my music.

For the technical material, my names is Mike Allen. I was born on August 23, 1960 in Conroe, Texas and have lived in this area most of my life.
I've been in music for 32 years now. I got my first guitar for Christmas when I was 14, and I played my first job a little over a year later. I wouldn't say that I was obsessed with the guitar, I just didn't do anything else.
Like pretty much every other kid, I started off learning the Rock songs of the mid 70's, and that led me to the Blues. My first band was a horrible little Rock outfit that I can't even recall the name of. But it wasn't long before I met the man who changed my life, Blues Harp player Little Walter Price. I guess he heard something in my playing that I didn't know was there, because I went to work for him in mid '76 and stayed until his death in '79.
I travelled the country with him and played clubs, concerts and festivals from Toronto to Mexico City, Tuscon to Miami, and just about every city in between. I was having the time of my life! I was meeting and jamming with all my current and future heroes such as Stevie Ray Vaughan, Albert Collins, B.B. King and many others.
After his death, I joined up with a Blues horn band called Bluez Deluxe. I stayed with them for about 6 months, but a car accident forced me to lay out for awhile.
During my hiatus, a friend of mine kept coming over and playing me stuff by Willie, Waylon and Jerry Jeff Walker and I began to fall in love with Country music. My physical rehab was with a guitar in my hand.
My first Country band was with a group called Jimmy Jordan and the Texas Outcast Band. I freely admit that I sucked for awhile. Going from the long, endless jam of a Blues lead ride to saying something melodical and meaningful in 30 seconds like you have to do in Country music took some time.
I went to work with Jimbo Williamson and the Bootleg Country Band in '84 and got my first original song recorded, "Whiskey and Tears" on DTKE Records. Since then, Jimbo and I have worked together many times between other projects that I've had.
I toured and recorded with Jeff Hord and the Texas Fullhouse Band for most of the '90's, opening shows for Toby Keith, Johnny Rodriguez, the Dixie Chicks and others.
I went out on my own in 2001, writing and recording my original songs and performing them solo. I began to get the itch to really play again in '06. I spent the year working with both Rick Sousley and Kevin Robinson as part of an interchangeable band that was working the Conroe area, or, as we were called, "the band whores".
I went back to work with Jimbo Williamson in 2007 and am enjoying myself immensely. I am still writing and recording my own songs as demos, so who knows what project may come up next?
Stay tuned.....

All the GREAT singer/songwriters of Texas Music: Guy Clark, Billy Joe Shaver, Bruce Robison, etc., as well as guitarists like James Burton, Ray Flacke, Clapton and Keith Urban.

ANYWHERE in Texas.

Fender Telecaster, Washburn acoustic, Peavey Valve King amp, Digitech effects.