The LeRoi Brothers are an American

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 rock

Rock music

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 band

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 from Austin, Texas

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.

The group was founded in 1981 by Mike Buck (also of The Fabulous Thunderbirds

The Fabulous Thunderbirds

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), 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

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 in 1987.

Former member Alex Napier died on February 3, 2011, in Desoto, Texas

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 from liver cancer

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, aged 59.

Members

• Mike Buck
  Mike Buck
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  - 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)
• Open All Night (1986)
• Crown Royale (1992)
• Kings of the Catnap (2000)