Bill Wharton

Expenses Wharton, aka “The Sauce Manager,” requires a novel method of blues performing, merging his like of cooking along with his enthusiasm for gutsy acoustic guitar playing and performing. Wharton, who cooks up gumbo while on stage, can be no adobe flash in the skillet, nor can be his live work meant as some type of inexpensive gimmickry; he’s simply combining a couple of things he’s constantly loved to accomplish: play music and prepare dinner. Known mainly for his concert events around Florida, where he offers his personal homemade Liquid Summer season Popular Sauce, Wharton continues to be fortunate lately to consider his work to France, where he received rave evaluations. In no way a straight-ahead blues participant, the guitarist, vocalist and songwriter’s recordings certainly are a rootsy mixture of blues, traditional R&B and rockabilly-flavored music. Wharton’s albums for the Sanford, Fla.-centered Kingsnake label are the Sauce Boss (1989), Southern from the Blues (1994) and Standing up in the Fire (1996). He also documented an recording for the Atlanta-based Ichiban label in 1992, Cookin’. Most of Wharton’s albums reveal his eclectic preferences you need to include R&B music, roots-rock, swamp pop amounts, Delta blues, calypso and zydeco music. While Wharton doesn’t consider himself significantly, he does consider his music extremely significantly, and he has a right to be noticed with a wider audience.