Gene Phillips, Swedish Jam Factory, Caritas Dinner, Incognito!


Gene Phillips has been raising money for St. Jude Children’s Hospital at his birthday parties for more than 40 years. This was taken in the late 1990s or early 2000s with me, sporting a different color hair, and Willie Bland, wife of the late Bobby Blue Bland.

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