Bruce "Bent Banana" Harper was supposedly an American blues guitarist and singer. Not much about Bruce "Bent Banana" Harper is known. It is speculated that he is a joke purported by a current performer looking for free publicity. He is said to have performed between of the end of the 20s and the beginning of the 30s in the Chicago area. His only known picture is what appears to resemble a mugshot. Virtually unknown (and apparently not in existence) for about seventy years, he "came to light" in 2008, when a collection purporting to be rare recordings of him, named Blues Pioneer, was torrented and placed on such websites as Youtube and Last.FM. The recordings, however, are of songs dating from much later than his active dates, and were obviously recorded on modern (post-1940s) equipment.
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