Danny, I just looked up the guy that played B.B. King's club the night we were there, and it was a guy by the name of Grant Garland. Ever heard him play?
http://www.grantgarlandmusic.com/grant-garland-music.htmlHe did mostly covers, but take a listen to the couple of snippets there, and you can get an idea of what kind of band was with him that night - they were smokin' Old geezer-ish guy on B3 and I was way too close to the Leslie cabinet, but he had fun!
Bob Pigeon - take a look at that guy's website. Classy. Unsigned. He's a killer guitar player and singer and band leader. Unsigned. Did I mention he's unsigned?
Even some of the biggest bands in Christian music aren't 'signed'. Jars of Clay and
Switchfoot are fully independent entities right now. Both had been on big labels, and chose to go it on their own.
Edit - Looks like Switchfoot is on Atlantic now. At one time they were on Sony when Sony pulled that shenanigan of putting a root-kit on their CDs - Switchfoot was publicly upset about it and I don't know that they stayed on for another album. I believe the next one they did was fully independent.