Juke Boy Bonner

One-man rings weren’t too common around the postwar blues picture. Joe Hill Louis and Dr. Ross one thinks of as greats who plied their trade simply by their lonesome — therefore do Juke Boy Bonner, a Texan whose skill never really gained him much in the form of tangible incentive. Given birth to into impoverished conditions within the Lone Celebrity State through the Depressive disorder, Weldon Bonner used your guitar in his teenagers. He caught a rest in 1947 in Houston, earning a talent competition that resulted in an area on an area radio store. He journeyed to Oakland in 1956, trimming his debut solitary for Bob Geddins’ Irma imprint (“Rock and roll beside me Baby”/”Well Baby”) with Lafayette “Thing” Thomas providing the lead acoustic guitar. Goldband Records manager Eddie Shuler was alongside take a opportunity in 1960; Bonner documented for him in Lake Charles, LA, with Katie Webster on piano, but once more, nothing occurred career-wise. Stressed by stomach complications through the ’60s, Bonner used his medical center downtime to create poems that he later on turned into tunes. He cut his greatest work through the past due ’60s for Arhoolie Information, associated himself on both acoustic guitar and racked harmonica as he wove incredibly personal stories of his tough existence in Houston. Several European trips ensued, however they didn’t actually lead to very much. Toward the finish of his existence, he toiled inside a poultry processing plant to create ends meet up with. Bonner passed away of cirrhosis from the liver organ in 1978.