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The Steam Donkeys
Buffalo
Bio
The Steam Donkeys are a Buffalo honky-tonk and Americana band started in 1991 by singer-songwriter Buck Quigley and drummer John Brady after a French Ticklers rehearsal, according to their Buffalo Music Hall of Fame biography. The Hall of Fame, which inducted them in 2018, describes an early alternative-country sound that mixed honky-tonk with a punk edge, original songs by Quigley, and records including the cassette Songs From a Stolen Guitar, the 1994 CD Cosmic Americana produced by Robby Takac, and Little Honky Tonks on Landslide Records. They also ran the Americanarama festival in Buffalo.
The band
Buck Quigley
Singer and songwriter who co-founded The Steam Donkeys in 1991 and writes the band’s original songs. He was part of the group’s 2018 Buffalo Music Hall of Fame induction.
John Brady
Drummer and co-founder of The Steam Donkeys. The Buffalo Music Hall of Fame biography traces the band to a conversation between Brady and Buck Quigley after a French Ticklers rehearsal.
Dave Kimball
Lead guitarist who joined The Steam Donkeys after earlier members moved, according to the Hall of Fame bio, and who is named in a 2025 Nietzsche’s performance caption in The Buffalo News.
Tom Dagonese
Bassist named, with Quigley, Brady, and Kimball, in The Buffalo News caption of The Steam Donkeys’ April 2025 set at Nietzsche’s.
Charlie Quill
Original guitarist in The Steam Donkeys, credited by the Buffalo Music Hall of Fame with moving the band’s guitar sound toward Bakersfield and Don Rich influences.
Doug Moody
Classically trained fiddler who joined The Steam Donkeys early and could also sing high harmony, according to the Hall of Fame biography.
John Weber
Bassist who followed Kyle Brock and Frank Quebral in The Steam Donkeys, as listed in the band’s Buffalo Music Hall of Fame biography.
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