(Blues) Juke Boy Bonner - Life Gave Me A Dirty Deal

Bitrate: 320K/s
Time: 70:01
Size: 165.6 MB
Label: Arhoolie
Styles: Country blues, Acoustic Texas blues
Year: 1992
Art: Front

[3:32] 1. Life Gave Me A Dirty Deal
[2:59] 2. Going Back To The Country
[3:05] 3. Sad, Sad Sound
[2:48] 4. She Turns Me On
[2:59] 5. Hard Luck
[3:12] 6. Trying To Be Contented
[2:29] 7. Life Is A Nightmare
[3:29] 8. It's Time To Make A Change
[3:21] 9. Stay Off Lyons Avenue
[3:11] 10. My Blues
[2:25] 11. I'm Getting Tired
[3:24] 12. Over Ten Years Ago
[2:52] 13. I Got My Passport
[3:32] 14. I'm In The Big City
[2:40] 15. Houston, The Action Town
[2:34] 16. Running Shoes
[2:37] 17. Just A Blues
[2:58] 18. It Don't Take Too Much
[2:51] 19. Struggle Here In Houston
[2:47] 20. Railroad Tracks
[3:04] 21. Watch Your Buddies
[2:49] 22. When The Deal Goes Down
[4:13] 23. Being Black And I'm Proud


Juke Boy Bonner (vocals, guitar, harmonica); Alvin J. Simon, Alan Simon (drums).

Likely the most consistent and affecting collection you'll encounter by this singular Texas bluesman, whose strikingly personal approach was stunningly captured by Arhoolie's Chris Strachwitz during the late '60s in Houston. Twenty-three utter originals include "Stay Off Lyons Avenue," "Struggle Here in Houston," "I Got My Passport," and the title track. Bonner sang movingly of his painfully impoverished existence for Arhoolie, and the results still resound triumphantly today.