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MUSIC Jim Belushi and Duke Street perform benefit concert Proceeds from the show will benefit Butte Creek Mill Comment By Laurie Heuston Mail Tribune MailTribune.com By Laurie Heuston Mail Tribune Posted May. 13, 2016 at 9:00 AM By Laurie Heuston Mail Tribune Posted May. 13, 2016 at 9:00 AM » Social News Since actor and performing artist Jim Belushi built a vacation home in Eagle Point and started hanging out with the "locals," he's volunteered to help raise money for a couple of noteworthy restoration projects. Last year, he and his band, The Sacred Hearts, came to Southern Oregon from L.A. and played a benefit concert for the Holly Theatre Restoration Project at EdenVale Winery in Medford. Ashland band Duke Street — slide guitarist and lead singer John Hauschild, stand-up and electric bassist Joe Cohoon, drummer Kent Clinkenbeard, Michael Vannice on sax and keys and Scott Rogers on guitar — opened the show, and Belushi liked what he heard. "We have an affinity for old Chicago-style blues," Hauschild says. "In fact, we're both from Chicago. We clicked right away. We have the common language of the music and similar tastes." When Bob Russell, owner of the historic Butte Creek Mill in Eagle Point, approached Belushi about a benefit concert to help restore the mill, Brother Zee Blues stepped up. "I told him I couldn't bring my band up, but if Duke Street could back me up on a few songs, I'd be happy to help out," Belushi says. Duke Street and Belushi will perform classic blues and R&B at 7 p.m. Sunday, May 15, at Eagle Creek Estate, 1404 Brownsboro Highway, Eagle Point. Doors will open at 5:30 p.m. Tickets are $100, which includes free appetizers, nonalcoholic beverages and a drink coupon, and are available online at buttecreekmill.com or with cash or check at Paradux Media, 121 W. Main St., Eagle Point. There also will be a cash bar. Belushi is well-known for stepping into his older brother's shoes as a Blues Brother in 1992. Alongside Dan Aykroyd, he's made appearances at corporate parties and fundraisers and appeared with Aykroyd on two albums, "Blues Brothers & Friends: Live from House of Blues" in 1997 and "Have Love Will Travel" in 2003. "Performing at the show is an easy thing to do," Belushi says. "It's in Eagle Point, where I live. The mill's destruction has saddened everyone, and this will be great community support for Bob and his efforts for reconstruction." Belushi and Hauschild — like-minded musicians — have been on the phone with one another choosing songs for the show's set. Look for some of the old R&B covered by the Blues Brothers and more. "It's all old R&B and blues stuff that came out of Chicago and Motown," Hauschild says. "Look for Junior Wells' 'Messin' With the Kid,' Joe Turner's 'Flip, Flop, Fly,' Barrett Strong's 'Bunny,' 'Land of a Thousand Dances,' made popular by Wilson Pickett, and Elmore James' 'One Way Out.' We do that last one more like the Allman Brothers did." Also look for "Sweet Home Chicago" and "Everybody Needs Somebody," Belushi adds. Duke Street will open with a set at 7 p.m., then Belushi will join the band for the rest of the show. The Ashland band's newest CD, a collection of classic R&B titled "On the Fly," will be available at the show. Proceeds from the show will help rebuild Butte Creek Mill. Russell and a volunteer architect are four months into the planning stages for restoring the old mill. When it caught fire last Christmas, the main floor and two upper stories were destroyed. "The lower level where the water rushes in and powers our turbine survived the flames," Russell says. "The turbine, the mill's gears, and the heavy wooden beams are intact." The original millstones also are unscathed and in good working condition, he says. "They're really the main reason we are going to rebuild," Russell says. "Those stones, called a runner and a nether, were put on a sailing ship in 1872 and traveled from France, around Cape Horn and to Crescent City, Calif. From there, they were hauled by oxen over the Siskiyous to the site of the flour mill in Eagle Point. "The mill's restoration is a worthy project," he says. "It's the last water-powered flour mill that still operates west of the Mississippi River." By Laurie Heuston Mail Tribune MailTribune.com By Laurie Heuston Mail Tribune Posted May. 13, 2016 at 9:00 AM » Comment or view comments Reader Reaction » STAY INFORMED Email NewsLetter Sign Up Today Sign up for our newsletter and have the top headlines from your community delivered right to your inbox. Southern Oregon Directory Featured Businesses Loading... 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