Jimmy Donley

Jimmy Donley was, to quote one of his own songs, born to be a loser. It wasn't that this natural singer and songwriter tried to mess up his life on every conceivable level -- he was born into it and that was that. His father was a racist, abusive alcoholic and Donley had his own mean-spirited demons that surfaced as early as three years old when he attempted to shoot his cousin for refusing to get off Donley's tricycle. Things only got worse. Even an early stint in the Army failed to give Donley the self-discipline he so desperately needed, and he was discharged as unmanageabl...