’Sauce Boss’ Bill Wharton on tour in Ireland

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The "Sauce Boss" Bill Wharton & The Ingredients with special guest Randall "Big Daddy" Webster will bring their Blues and Gumbo to Ireland September 26 - October 10, 2006. Bill Wharton mixes his own spicy slide guitar blues and hot sauce right into the New Orleans style gumbo, and at the end of the show, everybody eats. It's a soul-shouting picnic of rock & roll brotherhood. Sauce Boss also brings his show to homeless centers throughout the US through his charity Planet Gumbo

Randall ’big Daddy’ Webster's foot-stomping original blues is powered by his four-octave vocal range and capable guitar--they often call him the "Pavarotti of Blues." There's an undeniable musical connection between Webster's blues and Ireland. Says Big Daddy: "The tradition of playing music from the soul ("ceol dan anam" in Irish) is much the same in Ireland as it is in America. Take the feel of a Bo Diddley beat as it's similar to that of a jig, and the mournful notes of an Irish air are found all across blues." "Randall 'Big Daddy' Webster has lived and breathed the blues for over 25 years; first soaking it in as a wild child while growing up in the shadow of the Windy City (Chicago) during the 1960's and 70's; later swimming the undercurrent of 'Deep River Blues' while he jammed with Bluesmen at the confluence of the Mississippi and the Ohio waterways during the 80's; and for the last twenty-plus years he's tread through the swamp Blues of Florida's backwoods jook joints making the gators growl along the way. He's a true champion of America's great indigenous music. The influences cut sharp, the tunes run deep, and the spirit held high when Randall 'Big Daddy' Webster stirs up his spicy gumbo of original home cooked Blues, trusting his four-octave voice, pulsing rhythm guitar, and beating foot makes it all simmer into a fine blues brew"-- Chicago Blues Annual. And as a director of the Big Bend Homeless Coalition, Webster has established the Americana Blues Caravan to raise money and awareness for homelessness issues in the Florida Panhandle.

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