Based out of San Antonio Texas, the Mark Searcy Band's passion is the Blues. Ranging from West Coast Swing to Chicago and Texas Blues and everything in between, the band is led by 2007 Texas Music Awards Finalist, Mark Searcy, whose influences include Blind Willie McTell, Robert Johnson, T-Bone Walker, Freddy King, Sue Foley, and Kirby Kelley. Mark is joined by featured sideman Rick Boss who has some 40+ years experience of blowing some of the best blues harp on either side of the Mississippi.  The majority of the vocals are handled by the lovely and most capable Kori Hubbard with Texas natives Allen Daniell & Lyle Burke rounding out a groovin' rythem section on bass and drums, respectively.
   

Mark Searcy Middleton was born in Benton, Arkansas and played guitar during his teenage years for 5 years before putting it down to raise a family. His favorite music of the day was Carlos Santana, Johnny Winter, Jimi Hendrix, the Doobie Brothers and Black Sabbath.  After damaging the fingers on his left hand from a work related accident, he picked up an acoustic guitar to rehab his hand and play at his local church.  After having spent much time in Chicago, Memphis, and Austin, he found a calling to the blues and spent a decade studying early electric blues, Chicago Blues, and particularly pre-war blues after introduction to slide guitarist Kirby Kelley of Muenster, Texas.

His primary influences are Kirby Kelley, Blind Willie Johnson, Blind Willie McTell, Robert Johnson, Lightnin' Hopkins, Kenny Sultan, Mike Dowling, T-Bone Walker, Freddy King, B.B. King, Sean Costello, Sue Foley, Debbie Davies, Chris Duarte, Smokin' Joe Kubek, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Ronnie Earl, Duke Robillard, Elmore James, Derek Trucks, Kenny Burrell, Wes Montgomery, Alvin Youngblood Hart, Steve James, Rory Block, Corey Harris, David Hamburger, David Kampmann, Seth Austin, Blind Blake, John Mississippi Hurt, Tampa Red, Mance Lipscomb, Muddy Waters, Elmore James, Ry Cooder,Jack Pearson, Johnny Winter, Tony Iommi, Tonk Edwards, and Matt Schofield.

Mark has performed on Beale Street in Memphis, Tennessee, Club Ebony, the oldest juke joint in Mississippi, the Historic Victory Grill, the oldest blues club in Austin, Texas, and Telluride Colorado as a Top 5 national finalist in the Acoustic Blues Challenge. In 2007, Mark was a top 5 finalist for Texas Music Awards - Texas Musician of the Year for the guitar work on a solo, acoustic guitar CD entitled "Blindman's Blues".

- 2008 International Blues Challenge - Semi-Finalist
- 2007 Telluride Acoustic Blues Competition - Finalist
- 2007 San Antonio Guitar Wars - Winner Best Acoustic Performance
- 2007 Texas Music Awards - "Musician of the Year" Finalist
- 2007 International Blues Challenge - Semi-Finalist
- 2006 TBS Blues Challenge - Winner Solo/Duo
- 2005 San Antonio Guitar Wars - Winner Best Acoustic Performance

Discography
Mark Searcy Band - Wild Night In Texas (2010) 
Mark Searcy - Slideaway (2007)
Mark Searcy - Blindman's Blues (2006)
Mark Searcy - Like Father, Like Son (2005)

 Rick started playing harmonica at age 6 in Hayward, California. At age 10, he debuted at Rocky's Pizza in Hayward with a piano and a banjo and by age 15 was performing regularly with a band. His first big public splash came as the opening act for the Battle of the Bands in 1976 at the San Diego Sports Arena. In the late 70s and early 80s, Rick performed on his first single with the Out of the Blue Band where they entered the charts of local San Diego Radio, while grabbing up local and statewide gigs for the likes of Jim Plunkett, the Oakland Raiders, CMS, and the Sacramento State Fair. From there, he performed with Deacon Jones and the Bucket of Blues Band, where John Lee Hooker would sit in quite often. In the late 80s, while with the Badlands Meanie Band, he opened shows at the San Jose Cabaret for Molly Hatchet, Little Feet, Elvin Bishop, Robin Trower, Pat Travers, Edgar Winter, and Rick Derringer. By the late 90's Rick was performing back in the Bay area with John Lee Hooker Junior and moved to Las Vegas in the early 2000s where he performed and recorded with the Blackwater 5 Band playing at the Roxy and other clubs on the booming Las Vegas strip. Boss moved to Texas in 2007 to check out the music scene performing with a variety of Texas artists including Billy Bob Thornton. On the chill of an early fall evening at Fredericksburg's Silvercreek, his harmonica first collided with Searcy's guitar starting the two's history and leading up to the release of “Wild Night In Texas” in 2009.

 Kori grabbed a Fisher Price microphone at age 3 singing along with a static laced AM radio and has never looked back. In her early years, she vocalized chorally for her school and as a late teen sang at Longhorn Cafe in San Antonio for over 5 years. From there, she moved into her first real country band called "Texas Honey" performing locally all over the Texas Hill Country. From there, Kori expanded her vocal prowess into rock, blues, and pop while performing with the progressive Brother Fork and the Spooners and made her debut with them as the opening host band for the annual San Antonio Guitar Wars competition. In the fall of 2008, she joined forces with Mark Searcy as the core of the band and has been humming along every since.

Allen Daniell was born in Amarillo, Texas and raised in Fritch, Texas. He's been playing music since he was ten. His grandmother, Irene Walston, was a singer/songwriter who wrote doo-wop songs. His mother, who was a pianist and a close friend turned him onto old Blues records, when he was just twelve years old. His first instrument of choice was the drums, which he performed with several bands including Fritch until he was 18.

Allen began placing his mark in the music world with a seventh place finish in the Jimi Hendrix National Guitar Competition in Hollywood, CA, during which time he had the opportunity to meet Jimi's sister and cousins. After this, Allen moved to Los Angeles for 3 years where he immersed himself in the local music scene and had the opportunity to meet and record tracks for a Sarah Michelle Gellar movie. During this time, Allen studied at the Los Angeles Musicians Institute where he honed his voice, theory, and guitar skills. After graduating he moved back to Lubbock, Texas where he performed with local celebrity Tennessee Tuckness. From there, he relocated to Austin, Texas where he's had the privilege to perform or open for many greats like Rob Roy Parnell, Chris Duarte, Storyville, Gary Clark jr, Guy Forsyth, Pinetop Perkins, Eric Tessmer, Dede Priest, Idgy Vaughn and tour the world all in his twenties. "I can only hope to obtain longevity in such an easy come easy go biz! I feel blessed to have been this far." - Allen Daniell

 A native of California, Lyle grew up in the Napa Valley—At age 21 Lyle was co-owner/founder of Napa’s first Rock and Roll club, The Stoneyard. As a drummer, Lyle has played in numerous bands over the years including a Reggae/Island style group headed by Bobby Rieman, on the island of Roatan. This effort produced two CDs featuring original music—“Roatanified” recorded in La Cieba Honduras and released in 2000. In 2005 Bobby and Group released their second CD “Pulperia Lea” recorded on the Island of Roatan. Lyle has lived in the San Antonio, Texas since 1993. Since its inception in 2008, Lyle has been the drummer with the Mark Searcy Band.