Join River City Grille for
TexAmericana Tuesdays
Featuring Texas singers / songwriters
Mike Blakely and Johnny Gringo,
and a special guest.

Every Tuesday - 7:30

Mike Blakely

Mike Blakely grew up in Wharton County,Texas and learned to play the guitar at age eight, taught by his musically inclined father.  After moving to Marble Falls, he met Larry Nye, renowned guitar player and owner of Lazy L Recording Studio in Kingsland, Texas; and bassist/promoter Donnie Price, of Granite Shoals, Texas. Both Nye and Price were already well-known on the Texas music scene. The three musicians formed the band that would come to be known as Mike Blakely Y Los Yahoos and began performing everywhere from Texas to Switzerland.

Though Mike made a few trips to Nashville to pitch songs, he became quickly disenchanted with the major-label country music business. However, his songwriting has caught the attention of some legends on the Texas music scene, and several of his tunes have been covered by artists such as Grammy-winner Flaco Jimenez and Raul Malo (of The Mavericks), Gary P. Nunn, Larry Joe Taylor, Geronimo Trevino and Johnny Rodriguez, Craig Chambers, Debbi Walton, and others.

Mike is also a published fiction writer of historical fiction set in the American West, and has published 14 successful books.    Visit Mike's Website.

John Greenberg / Johnny Gringo

John M. Greenberg started playing guitar at an early age while growing up in Oklahoma City, OK. But it wasn’t until the mid-1990’s that he began writing and performing his own songs. After becoming a two time Kerrville "New Folk" finalist in 1998 and 2000, he made songwriting his career.

Now living in Marble Falls, TX, John has shared the stage with Guy Clark, Ray Wylie Hubbard, Robert Earl Keen, Willie Nelson, Kevin Welch and Walt Wilkins to name just a few.    Visit John's Website.