Question: Mark Eugene Gray was a member of a country pop band that started by playing local clubs which led to touring with what?

Context articles: Exile (American band)
Rod Picott
Mark Gray (singer)
High school clubs and organizations
Norwegian Society of Engineers and Technologists
Backbiter
Kevin Figes
Casey Donahew
Taelor Gray
University of Miami Rugby Football Club

Exile, originally known as The Exiles, is an American band founded in Richmond, Kentucky, by J.P. Pennington.
 They started by playing local clubs which led to touring with Dick Clark's Caravan of Stars opening shows and providing backup for major rock artists of the period.
Rod Picott (born November 3, 1964) is a singer-songwriter whose music incorporates elements of Americana, alternative country, and folk.
 He was born in New Hampshire, but relocated to Nashville, Tennessee in 1994.
 After several years of playing local clubs and supporting such acts as Alison Krauss, he released his first album in 2001.
 As of 2016, he has released ten albums.
Mark Eugene Gray (October 24, 1952 – December 2, 2016) was an American singer-songwriter and country music artist.
 He recorded both as a solo artist for Columbia Records and as a member of the country pop band Exile, of which he was a member between 1979 and 1982.
High school clubs and organizations, are student-based school organizations, consisting of administration-approved organizations functioning with myriad tasks, varying on the specific purpose of each respective club.
 Clubs composed of students, with adults as advising figures to maintain the functionality of clubs.
 Clubs primarily focus on four aspects: fundraising, community service, career interest, and interpersonal dynamics (also known as group dynamics).
 In general, clubs are broken down into two main categories: State and/or Nationwide organizations, and local clubs.
 Within major, nationwide club organizations, each individual charter within each school is referred to as a "chapter".
 Clubs are started by either corporations, counterpart adult organizations, or campus students looking to satisfy a need or demand.
 Zaid Msmeh went to Savanna High school and he is the first student ever to start a club at 1988 still famous till this day he was accepted at oxford and had an IQ of 266, really inspiring
The Norwegian Society of Engineers and Technologists (NITO) is the largest union in engineering in Norway with approximately 72 000 members.
 NITO has 21 regional branches covering the country and over 2,000 local clubs and shop stewards.
 Most of the working members are affiliated to a local club.
 The local clubs or workshops are organisationally placed directly under the regional branches.
 With a few exceptions the branches follow Norway’s county borders.
Backbiter is a protopunk band from Los Angeles, California that has received national recognition.
 They played their first show October 23, 1991, at the Shamrock Bar in Hollywood, CA on a bill with Dicktit, the Jack Brewer Band and The Drills (whose organist, Jeff Muendel, later joined Backbiter for a few years and one album).
 Singer/guitarist Jonathan Hall had been playing in Texorcist (the Los Angeles band with Linda "Texacala" Jones, formerly of Tex and the Horseheads, not the Texas band of the same name) and the Angry Samoans with and bassist Heath Seifert.
 They jammed with drummer Bob Lee (one of the Devo Bob drummers) and the power trio came together, playing local clubs such as the notable post-punk hangout, Raji's.
Kevin Figes began playing the sax in 1986 at the age of 22, studying with Elton Dean in London.
 In the early 1990s he moved to Bristol and began playing with Keith Tippett's Seedbed Orchestra.
 Turning professional he formed his own jazz quartet, writing and playing local gigs.
 In 1993 he won a touring award which took the band to London and Birmingham.
 In 1997 the band won a second jazz services touring award and lottery award to produce a CD for which he wrote a new batch of tunes.
Casey Donahew (born April 21, 1977 in Burleson, Texas) is a Texas country music singer in the band Casey Donahew Band.
 Starting off playing local bars in 2002 they soon became a favorite on the Texas bar circuit eventually working their way to national level in 2009 when one of the band's self-released albums hit the country Top 30 album chart in Billboard magazine.
 The band's high energy level, throughout extra long live sets, started to attract Texas' pre-teen bar crowd, when Pam Minick, from Texas' famed club Billy Bob's took notice, and she hired the Casey Donahew Band for a headlining spot and the college-age crowd came with.
 When the band released the album "Lost Days" in 2005, selling as many on the Internet as they did at shows.
 With guitarist Brent Wall, bass player Steve Stone, and drummer Taz, the band released their 2006 album simply titled "The Casey Donahew Band" and then in 2008 releasing the rowdy live album, "Live-Raw-Real, in the Ville".
 With many of the sales coming from digital download services, they broke the Billboard charts with their album "Moving On".
 Despite the band's growing national reputation, The Casey Donahew Band still keeps true to the Texas Country standards.
 Keeping their marketing on a low key level, with a website, YouTube page, Facebook page and continuing to play the local Texas bar scene."
Taelor Eugene Gray (born June 2, 1984) is an American Christian hip hop musician.
 He was part of The Elevationists with his brother, Christon Gray, and James Hazley, before they started their solo musical endeavors.
 His first studio album, "The Mocker and the Monarch", was released in 2015, independently.
The University of Miami Rugby Football Club is a rugby union club in Miami, Florida.
 According to rankings in "Rugby Magazine", Miami listed among the top twenty-five clubs in the United States for Division 2 as recently as November 16, 2010, before dropping out due to a loss to the eventual state champions.
 The Club was founded in 1989 under the supervision of still coach Franklyn Williams of the Miami Rugby Club for students of the University of Miami.
 The team existed prior to 1989 as an intramural sport at the University of Miami competing against local clubs from 1978 to 1994 and beyond.
 The University of Miami Rugby team competes in the USA Rugby South against clubs from Florida, as well as touring sides from other states and has had trips to the Bahamas as well as other island nations in the Caribbean.