He's a down-home boy who goes head-to-head with the word nerds in New York City,
a mule-loving man who pens novels and songs, a soul food lover who negates
any ill effects of Farmers Market meals with his daily 90-minute workout.
If Tommy Lee Cook didn't exist, it'd be a lucky writer who dreamed up so complicated and engaging a character.
But exist he does, to the delight of music lovers and camaraderie seekers at Cook's Buckingham Blues Bar,
where he can be found when he's not competing in international crossword tournaments
or recording CDs (his latest, "Outside Looking In," debuted last week at No. 35 on the Roots-Blues Top 50 Chart).
Born in Danville, Va., he was adopted at 6 months from the Chatham, Va., orphanage and grew up in Dry Fork, Va.
— rural tobacco country surrounded by woods he loved to wander alone or on a pony with a stick, hatchet or gun in hand.
His family moved to Florida in 1967 and Cook spent the next six years in North Fort Myers before joining the Air Force,
then heading to the University of Florida in Gainesville. He taught English for a while,
then bought and re-did the Buckingham Bar in 2002.
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