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Unsung Poet At Home Bluesman Bonner Plays Juneteenth Night
Houston AP reports 46 year old Weldon Bonner known as Juke Boy returns to stage for the 2nd Annual Juneteenth Blues Festival joining Lightnin Hopkins and Gatemouth Brown. Bonner recalls Houston’s shrinking blues venues and laments white audiences’ taste, while continuing to write songs on his front porch despite health and career hurdles. Timberly Geneal Laughner is born at Malone-Hogan Hospital in Big Spring to Stephen and Mrs. Laughner with grandparents listed.
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Houston
Bordeaux
Weldon Bonner
Bonner
Lightnin’ Hopkins
Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown
Montreux
Switzerland
France
Germany
Big Mama Thornton
Gatemouth Brown
Bobby Blue Bland
Don Robey
Duke
Peacock
Bellville
Texas
South
Ben Taub
Hank Williams
Jimmie Rodgers
Stephen Laughner
Big Spring
Malone-Hogan Hospital
Timberly Geneal
Cecil Caswell
Kenneth Laughner
New Braunfels