In February 1992 Lopez left and Leo Green joined on tenor saxophone followed a short time later by Nick Lunt on baritone. In March 1992 another jam session with Jeff Beck led to Beck asking the Big Town Playboys to help him to record "Crazy Legs" as a tribute to Cliff Gallup. Stuart Colman was brought in as the producer, and the tracks were recorded in July 1992 at the Townhouse Studios in London. Sanchez and the Big Town Playboys headlined many European music festivals and worked with several noted blues musicians, such as Jimmy Nelson, Lowell Fulson, Carey Bell, Don and Dewey, Little Willie Littlefield and Joe Hughes. Sanchez left the Big Town Playboys in December 1999 and pursued a solo career, although his debut solo album "Just A Game" was cut and released in 1997 while still with the Big Town Playboys. In 2001 Sanchez became a member of Bill Wyman's Rhythm Kings (replacing pianist Gary Brooker). By 2001 Sanchez had formed a seven-piece rhythm and blues outfit under his own name featuring guitarist Andy Silvester, bassist Al Gare, drummer Mark Morgan (also formerly of the Big Town Playboys), The Harlem Horns (Al Nicholls and Pete Cook), and Doo Wop vocal group The Extraordinaires. This line-up often featured Dublin born vocalist Imelda May who later launched a hugely successful worldwide solo career through Decca/Universal. In 2003 Sanchez produced and recorded soundtrack material for the film "I'll Be There", which starred Charlotte Church and Craig Ferguson. The "Blues in Britain" magazine named Mike Sanchez as "UK Keyboard Player of the Year" from 2000–2004. Sanchez also collaborated with Swedish blues artists "Knockout Greg and Blue Weather", recording an album based on jump blues and blues shouters such as Young Jessie, Roy Brown and Wynonie Harris. The album, along with his releases "Blue Boy", "You Better Dig It" and 2003 DVD Release "Red Hot...LIVE!" was released on his own label, "Doopin' Records". Currently Sanchez is fronting a six-piece titled "Mike Sanchez and his Band", featuring from Leicester-based outfit Drugstore Cowboys bassist Nick Whitfield and guitarist Tom Bull, former "Big Town Playboy" Mark Morgan on drums, Martin Winning (Van Morrison) on tenor saxophone and baritone saxophonist Nick Lunt (Jools Holland's "Rhythm & Blues Orchestra"). He also regularly performs with his four-piece lineup "The Portions", as a soloist at International boogie woogie festivals and with several other bands across Europe most notably in France with the Drew Davies Rhythm Combo.