Mike Blanchard & the Whispering Chingaderos
Sacramento, California, United States
Music
Press
Part old timey, down-home porch jam, and part whiskey soaked honkey-tonk combo, Mike Blanchard and the Whispering Chingaderos deliver on all the long-forgotten promises of country music! - Jerry Perry ALIVE N KICKING
In the hands of most musicians these songs would be slickly retro but the sound is as real as it gets. - Rachel Leibrock Sacramento News & Review
In the hands of most musicians these songs would be slickly retro but the sound is as real as it gets. - Rachel Leibrock Sacramento News & Review
The music can be described as loose and unencumbered like Townes Van Zandt
or Robert Earl Keene imbued with the patina of a thousand tequila-marinated backyard barbecues. - Sacramento News & Review
The music can be described as loose and unencumbered like Townes Van Zandt
or Robert Earl Keene imbued with the patina of a thousand tequila-marinated backyard barbecues. - Sacramento News & Review
Part old timey, down-home porch jam, and part whiskey soaked honkey-tonk combo, Mike Blanchard and the Whispering Chingaderos deliver on all the long-forgotten promises of country music! - Jerry Perry ALIVE N KICKING
Discography
"Mike Blanchard and the Whispering Chingaderos". 2008
we have radio airplay on kxjz 90.9 in Sacramento C.A, kvmr 89.5 Nevada City C.A., kdup 88.1 Surprise Valley C.A., worldwideluegrass.com, the Acoustic Ecclectic show
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Bio
Mike Blanchard and The Whispering Chingaderos are a group of seasoned pros based around the singing and songwriting of Mike Blanchard. Mike has a uniquely strong and beautiful voice that is the centerpiece of the band.
The band does up to five sets about half originals as well as old country, folk, bluegrass, Mexican and Western chestnuts. The sound revolves around the vocal harmonies of Mike, Laurieanne and David Van Dusen and they are damn proud of being a California western band.
That's the who and the what, but in the end this is a smokin’ band. The vibe is like a group of old boys sittin’ round the porch just throwin’ it down with the ease and taste that only comes from years of playin
Mike has been the singer/rhythm guitarist in the legendary Sacramento band The Tattooed Love Dogs for over twenty years. The Dogs have played all over the west coast from Seattle to San Diego and out to Texas to play South by South West. With the Dogs Mike has won four Sammies (Sacramento Area Music Awards) for best rock band and best country band and is in the Sammie Hall of Fame.
The Whispering Chingaderos was formed two years ago after Mike recorded a solo record titled, amazingly enough, MIKE BLANCHARD AND THE WHISPERING CHINGADEROS. The response to the CD was so favorable that the band was assembled and has spent the last two years poundin’ the trail between San Francisco and Reno with regular stops in Nevada City, Placerville and Auburn as well as Sacramento.
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