Weldon "Juke Boy" Bonner worked the Houston bars and sang of street life in the same "down-home" style as Lightnin' Hopkins, whom he challenges here in "Look Out Lightnin'." But Bonner was a younger man than Hopkins when he made these recordings (1960-67), and there is greater urgency in his voice. Bonner played guitar and harp in a rack, a la Jimmy Reed, but his swampier sound is more akin to that of Louisiana's Lightnin' Slim/Lazy Lester team. Eight of these 20 tracks are newly issued, coming from home recordings Bonner ...
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Weldon "Juke Boy" Bonner worked the Houston bars and sang of street life in the same "down-home" style as Lightnin' Hopkins, whom he challenges here in "Look Out Lightnin'." But Bonner was a younger man than Hopkins when he made these recordings (1960-67), and there is greater urgency in his voice. Bonner played guitar and harp in a rack, a la Jimmy Reed, but his swampier sound is more akin to that of Louisiana's Lightnin' Slim/Lazy Lester team. Eight of these 20 tracks are newly issued, coming from home recordings Bonner made of his raw, wry blues. "I belong to a three-ring circus," he sang, "but I ain't nothin' but a clown." ~ Mark Humphrey, Roundup newsletter, Rovi
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