Mike Buck (US)

1952 –

Drummer, born in Fort Worth, Texas, on 17 June 1952 and raised there, playing Fort Worth clubs in his mid teens with Robert Ealey, Ray Sharpe and Johnny Carroll. He moved to Austin in the mid 1970s and joined the Fabulous Thunderbirds alongside Jimmie Vaughan, Kim Wilson and Keith Ferguson, appearing on their first two albums. He left in 1981 to form the LeRoi Brothers, and has recorded with Roky Erickson, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Lazy Lester, Ted Roddy and Doug Sahm. He co-owns Antone's Record Shop in Austin with his wife, guitarist Eve Monsees, and has played with her in Eve & The Exiles since 2002.