TOM BUCKLEY :: BASSIST

Tom Buckley has over 45 years of professional musical experience providing the low end to virtually every style of band and musical venue on the planet. Coming from the South Side of Chicago, Tom cut his teeth in the Chicago blues scene as bassist for Eddie Taylor (Jimmy Reed's guitarist and collaborator) throughout the 1970s. Along with Eddie, or on his own, Tom backed many of the great Chicago blues artists of the day, among them: Jimmy Reed, Howlin’ Wolf, Hubert Sumlin, Sunnyland Slim, Otis Rush, Johnny Littlejohn and J.B. Hutto, and many others.

Tom came to the Burlington area around 1980 and has continued to provide the bassic backbone for a wide variety of Vermont bands spanning many musical genres. Tom has worked successful stints with the Cooper-Darrow Band, local outfits Good Fortune, City Lights, Empty Pockets, the Chameleons, the Vibrokings, Redd Rooster, the Dave Keller Band, Fast Eddie and the All-Stars, Run for Cover, the High Rollers, Bloozotomy and Jim Branca, and many, many others, including many years with Vermont’s best-known western swing association, Rick and the Ramblers. Tom’s work can be found on many of these artists’ recorded material. He also continued to expand his blues and R&B resume backing modern artists like Greg Izor, Anthony Geraci, David Maxwell, Left Eye Jump, Dwight & Nicole and Bob Stannard. Tom is a founding member of the Joe Moore Band.

Tom’s musical adventure continues today providing steady support to a variety of function and club gigs and studio projects, backing solo artists and singer/songwriters of almost every genre, in addition to ongoing support of the blues.  He is a founding member of a new and exciting blues-based project in town, the Jeff Salisbury Band.