Juke Boy Bonner
Sign in to saveAmerican blues singer, harmonica player, and guitarist (1932–1978)
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Juke Boy Bonner (Weldon H. Philip Bonner, March 22, 1932 – June 29, 1978) was an American, "one-man band", blues singer, harmonica player, and guitarist. He was influenced by Lightnin' Hopkins, Jimmy Reed and Slim Harpo. He described the bleak prospects of black urban existence in songs like "Life is a Nightmare", "Struggle Here in Houston" and "Going Back to the Country", accompanying himself on guitar, harmonica and drums in the self-sufficient one-man band mode of Joe Hill Louis and Dr. Ros
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Bellville
- Place of death
- Houston
- Occupation
- guitarist
- Genre
- blues
- Instrument
- harmonica
- Image
- Juke Boy Bonner AABF 1970 JT.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1932-03-22
- date of death
- 1978-01-29
- cause of death
- liver cirrhosis
- manner of death
- natural causes
- start of work period
- 1948-00-00
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