Juke Boy Bonner (real name Weldon H. Bonner) was an itinerant musician, born in Texas, who recorded the odd few tracks here and there and then moved on. He recorded a set of takes for Eddie Shuler at Goldband in 1960 of which only two were selected for a single. "Let's Boogie" and the other tracks didn't see the light of day until British blues authority Mike Leadbitter travelled to the Lake Charles Goldband studios in the sixties and the results of his digging were released on the LP "Blues Scene USA Volume 2: Louisiana Blues" in 1968. The source of this copy is the album below.

There appears to be some dispute about the identity of the pianist. The "Blues Scene..." album referred to above states that "... unfortunately the man did not give his name" whereas notes for the album below say that it was Katie Webster. Whoever it was, he/she contributes to a typically exuberant performance from Juke Boy whose style was significantly different from other artists from the region.

"The Story of Goldband Records: Eddie's House Of Hits" is a collection issued by Ace Records (UK) which attempts to give an introduction to Goldband Records, owned and run by Eddie Shuler, out of Lake Charles, Louisiana. It was opened by Eddie in 1952 and has continued ever since. However its heyday was very much during the fifties and early sixties when Eddie achieved strong regional success with a number of singles plus one or two which went on to wider success. Goldband recorded virtually any music that was popular in the area which was a pretty wide list including blues, R&B, country, rockabilly, other forms of rock'n'roll, swamp pop and cajun. Given that we are talking SE Louisiana many of these distinctions often blurred together and some individual artists would skip between these genres seemingly at will.

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