Jim Eno is the drummer and one of the founding members of the Austin, Texas band Spoon. He is also a record producer and a semiconductor chip designer.



Jim Eno was born in Rhode Island. He studied electrical engineering at North Carolina State University and worked as a hardware design engineer at Compaq Computer Corporation in Houston before moving to Austin in 1992 to design microchips for Cadence Design Systems.



Since joining Spoon Jim has also worked for Metta Technology as an electrical engineer, but has worked entirely in music since mid-2006.



Jim Eno met the lead singer of Spoon, Britt Daniel, when replacing the drummer of Daniel's former band The Alien Beats.



He has a studio in his home, known as Public Hi-Fi, where the band usually records. He has also produced albums for Spoon and other bands, including Via Audio and Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears.



In 2007 Jim Eno was ranked 31st in Stylus Magazine's list of fifty greatest rock drummers.