Right-Click here for MP3 Download
Sauce Boss “Blind Boy Billy”
Blind Boy Billy – Title Cut Single Release Date: October 19, 2018
Album release Date: January 11, 2019
Burning Disk Records 010
Peckerwood Publishing BMI
Send playlists, reviews or requests for Album CDs and interviews: info@sauceboss.com
Produced by David Davidson
Engineered by Bobby Shin, Library Studios, Nashville TN
One Man Band (Guitar, Bass Drum, High Hat, Vocals): Bill Wharton
Fiddle: David Davidson
Sousaphone: Joe Murphy
Vocals: Jamie Paul and Jason Eskridge
Snare Drum: Dennis Holt
Bill Wharton, (the Sauce Boss) has taken his one-man band to Nashville to make a record with David Davidson, adding violin, sousaphone, snare drum and backing singers to tell the ragtime story of an irascible traveling fiddler. Blind Boy Billy is a ragtime jump tune that careens off the road into a down home fiddle stomp.
Sauce Boss is a slide guitarist and singer known for his gastronomic boogie-woogie, and his Liquid Summer Hot Sauce. In 2016, Albert Castiglia covered Wharton’s song Let the Big Dog Eat, which stayed at #1 on the Roots Music Report for 12 weeks. The Sauce Boss cooks up a pot of gumbo at his concerts and serves it free to his audience. More than a musical performance, the media is “mixed” into a community of sharing. Jimmy Buffett sings about the Sauce Boss in his tune I Will Play For Gumbo. Jonathan Demme also used Let the Big Dog Eat in his movie, Something Wild. For nearly 30 years The Sauce Boss has combined his music, his hot sauce, his gumbo, and his Southern hospitality all over the US, and into Canada, Europe, and Asia. Thousands of gigs. Over 1,000,000 miles on the highway. Tons of hot sauce. Way over 200,000 people served, and he’s never charged a penny for the gumbo.
Producer David Davidson and Bill Wharton go way back. They played together in the early 1970’s when David studied violin at Florida State University. He left Tallahassee to become the concertmaster of the Jacksonville Symphony. He then moved to Nashville to become one of the most recorded violinists in town. Fast forward 45 years and you have the recording of Blind Boy Billy at Davidson’s Library Studios in Nashville.
The tune is a companion to the book, The Life and Times of Blind Boy Billy, a memoir with a songbook and a cookbook and an accompanying soundtrack, which is also about to be released in paperback and Kindle versions on Amazon. In the book, Wharton filets the story of his life, smokes it, and sandwiches it between photos, songs and recipes. It’s also a story of the outlaw grower of fine cannabis, and his brush with the law. The tunes and the recipes follow the story, with the Sauce Boss mixing media like it was cornbread.
Contact: Bill Wharton (Sauce Boss)
Burning Disk Records 850-212-1190
Facebook.com/billsaucebosswharton
