Jim O'Neal:  

CLASS OF 1966
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Ben C. Rain High SchoolClass of 1966
Mobile, AL

Jim's Story

Jim graduated from Ben C. Rain High School and Northwestern University (Journalism). He lived in Chicago from 1970 to 1986, working as co-founder of America's first blues magazine, Living Blues, and as a writer, record producer and music consultant. He operated a record store and recording studio in Clarksdale, Mississippi, from 1988 to 1998 and now writes texts for the hi...Expand for more
storical markers on the Mississippi Blues Trail. Jim was a huge Rolling Stones fan in high school and soon discovered that the blues was the foundation of the music played by the Stiones and other British groups. He has been researching and writing about the blues ever since. He has been married twice and has two children. He has lived in Kansas City, Missouri., since 1998.
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Yearbooks

Ben C. Rain High School 1966 yearbook cover photo
1966 Yearbook
Ben C. Rain High School
MOBILE, AL
Ben C. Rain High School 1964 yearbook cover photo
1964 Yearbook
Ben C. Rain High School
MOBILE, AL
Reunions
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May 13, 2016
Jim was invited to the
B.C. Rain Class of '66 50th Reunion
343 invitees
B C Rain Cruise Summer 2013 reunion event on Aug 25, 2013 image
Aug 25, 2013
Jim was invited to the
B C Rain Cruise Summer 2013
479 invitees
Tacky Jacks BC Rain 2012 reunion event on May 5, 2012 image
May 5, 2012
Jim was invited to the
Tacky Jacks BC Rain 2012
1446 invitees
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Photos

Jim O'Neal's Classmates profile album
Jim O'Neal's Classmates profile album
Jim O'Neal's Classmates profile album
Jim O'Neal's Classmates profile album
Hello friends, We are Jim’s T-cells (lymphocytes), at least the 147 cc of us that were extracted from his bloodstream yesterday, reporting for duty in Santa Monica, California, where we were couriered yesterday to become ge
Jim O'Neal's album, Timeline photos
Jim O'Neal's album, Timeline photos
Jim O'Neal's album, Timeline photos
Jim O'Neal's album, Timeline photos
R.I.P. Gregory “D.C.” Bellamy (1949-2023) Funds are being raised for funeral expenses today until 5 p.m., at B.B.’s Lawnside Bsr-B-Q, 1205 E. 85th St. in Kansas City, MO, for D.C. Bellamy, who passed away unexpectedly at h
Approaching the Mississippi River bridge
Haney's BIg House Music Hall
Jim O'Neal's album, Untitled album
A blue bayou in south Louisiana
Terry & the Zydeco Bad Boys (and a girl)
With Lurrie & Steve Bell at Knuckleheads in KC.
NIne Below Zero last night and Ten Below Zero this morning! Almost got frostbite just taking this photo on my front porch.
Most of my genealogical and historical research is about blues, but today I’m sharing the 1950 census listing for my family in honor of what would have been my mother’s 100th birthday in Magee, Mississippi. My father was bo
Seventy-four today . . . Willie Love’s “Seventy Four Blues” is about a freight train (as was Johnnie Temple’s earlier version) and sometimes I do feel like a slow-moving freight, but still chugging along trying to carry the
Many of the interviews I have done over the years never got published in Living Blues or elsewhere but I'm always glad when they can be put to use. Last Thursday the Glencoe Historical Society in the Chicago suburb of Glenc
In honor of Eddie "Guitar Slim" Jones, Thibodaux LA
Guitar Slim Jr. at Dooky Chase's
Jim O'Neal's album, Timeline Photos
Jim O'Neal's album, Timeline Photos
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