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The LeRoi Brothers

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Genre
  
Pop

Members
  
Steve Doerr

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Origin
  
Austin, Texas, United States (1981)

Albums
  
Check This Action!, Open All Night, Kings of the Catnap, Crown Royale, Forget About the Danger... Think of the Fun

Record labels
  
Rounder Records, New Rounder (CAN), New Rounder, Demon Records, Profile

Similar
  
Mike Buck, Evan Johns, Joe Doerr, Keith Ferguson, The Red Dirt Rangers

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The LeRoi Brothers are an American rock band from Austin, Texas.

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The group was founded in 1981 by Mike Buck (also of The Fabulous Thunderbirds), Don Leady, Steve Doerr, and Alex Napier. The group was a long-running Austin bar band, but achieved national success with the album Open All Night, which reached #181 on the Billboard 200 in 1987.

Former member Alex Napier died on February 3, 2011, in Desoto, Texas from liver cancer, aged 59.

On March 12, 2014, The LeRoi Brothers were inducted into the Austin Music Hall of Fame.

Former member Evan Johns died from complications of liver disease on March 11, 2017, at the age of 60 in Austin, Texas.

Members

  • Mike Buck - drums
  • Don Leady - guitar
  • Steve Doerr - guitar, vocals
  • Alex Napier - bass
  • Joe Doerr - vocals
  • Jackie Newhouse - bass
  • Sarah Brown - bass
  • Evan Johns - guitar
  • Rick Rawls - guitar
  • Pat Collins - bass
  • Speedy Sparks - bass
  • Discography

  • Amazing EP (1981)
  • Check This Action (1983)
  • Forget About the Danger (1984)
  • Lucky Lucky Me (1985)
  • The LeRoi Brothers (1985)
  • Open All Night (1986)
  • Crown Royale (1992)
  • Kings of the Catnap (2000)
  • Songs

    Check This ActionCheck This Action! · 1983
    Are You With Me BabyCheck This Action! · 1983
    Pretty Little Lights of TownForget About the Danger Think of the Fun · 1985

    References

    The LeRoi Brothers Wikipedia


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