Beloved country music duo’s fans praying after heartbreaking news: ‘Things are not well’

Alabama Life & CultureThe Waymores have been sidelined again.Getty ImagesBy Brian Linder | blinder@pennlive.comFans are sending prayers to the country music duo The Waymores after they recently shared a heartbreaking health announcement and called off several shows.“Texas friends, this month has taken all it can take from us,” the husband-and-wife duo — Kira Annalise and Willie Heath Neal — shared on Instagram. “My mother has suffered a severe stroke, and we need to cancel the Texas portion of our tour so I can be home with her and my family. Please be on the lookout for rescheduled dates.“We wish we weren’t sharing another difficult update,” the statement added. “We’ve leaned on your kindness a lot lately, and please know we don’t take it for granted. We also have quite a few prerecorded promo videos scheduled to come out, and we hope y’all will keep enjoying and engaging with those as usual. There’s some good news coming that we’re excited to share, and we’re grateful to have something good to look forward to in the middle of all of this. Thank you for your understanding, and please keep my mom in your thoughts and prayers.”The news came after the duo called off several shows in early October when Neal was hospitalized with a severe gastrointestinal (GI) bleed. Kira Annalise shared an update this week following the news of her mother’s stroke.“We are going to try our best to keep some Atlanta dates up,” she said. “But I just wanted to thank you guys for continuing to interact with all of the post that I worked my butt off to get pre-recorded and scheduled.”She said that she was “in the trenches” with her mother at the hospital.“Things are not well,” she said. “And the future is unknown right now.”Brian Linder is the trending editor at PennLive.com. He has more than 20 years of experience working for newspapers first in South Carolina, then Daytona Beach, Florida and now in Pennsylvania. Linder spent...