An important dispatch from Rick Saunders:
JiM O’NEAL (second from the left in the above photo) – Founder of Living Blues Magazine & Rooster Blues Records Has Cancer and No Insurance. Please Help!
Jim O’Neal, the founder of Living Blues Magazine and the late great Rooster Blues Records has been diagnosed with Lymph cancer and is currently undergoing treatment. Like so many in the music industry, and blues in particular, Mr. O’Neal does not have insurance. You can help Mr. O’Neal and his family by sending a donation and helping to spread the word. It’s good karma, baby!
A fund has been set up at Commerce Bank in Kansas City.
Checks may be sent to:
Jim O’Neal Blues Fund
P.O. Box 10334
Kansas City, MO 64171.
You can also donate at www.paypal.com to the account “onealbluesfund@aol.com”.
Of course, musicians being who they are are always quick to help their own and a series of benefit shows are being arranged. If you live near any of these locations please show up for a night of great music for an even greater cause. The good that Jim O’Neal done for blues music and musicians can hardly be repaid. But here is your opportunity to try.
THE JIM O’NEAL BENEFIT CONCERT SERIES
OCT. 20, 2011
SURF CLUB, HYATTSVILLE, MARYLAND
With Memphis Gold and others
OCT. 28, 2011
KNUCKLEHEADS, KANSAS CITY, KANSAS
Kenny Neal, Memphis Gold and others
NOV. 19, 2011(date is tentative)
BUDDY GUY’S LEGENDS, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
Kenny Neal, Memphis Gold, Eddie Clearwater, Eddie Shaw, Billy Branch, Elmore James Jr., Nora Jean Bruso and others
For further details and confirmations of time and artists, please check www.Stackhouse-Bluesoterica.blogspot.com.
photo: Panny Flautt Mayfield