Bill "Sauce Boss" Wharton

Tuesday, February 16
8:00 PM

Lafayette Tap Room
391 Washington ST
Buffalo , NY 14203

716-854-2466

www.lafayettetaproombbq.com

This is part of the Fat Tuesday Celebration brought to you by the Lafayette Tap Room.  Lee Ron Zydeco and the Hot Tamales and the Eye Candy Burlesque Show will also be performing.

from the Website of Bill Wharton: http://www.sauceboss.com

FROM THE DEEP ROOTS OF THE FLORIDA CYPRESS SWAMP COMES THE SAUCE BOSS.  Haven't heard him play?  You'll never forget him once you do.  With his distinctive slide guitar sound, wrought out of his '53 Telecaster like a man beggin' for mercy, and slung through a 1948 Fender amp like a dark horse running through the night, the Sauce Boss has a truly authentic sound that leaves you looking for something you thought you'd lost, but in fact you never knew you had.   

WITH HIS HOMEGROWN STORYTELLING AND NATURAL-BORN GUITAR TALENT, THE SAUCE BOSS RIGHTEOUSLY SINGS THE BLUES.  He gives the feeling that can only come from a life lived in the eye of the storm.  He has weathered more than his share of hurricanes, sunburn, and mosquitoes - and he's got the chops to prove it. He has taken his blues and a huge pot of gumbo to the disaster zones of the Mississippi delta and to homeless shelters across America - where he's fed war veterans, hurricane survivors, and plenty of other regular folks who come for music but leave with much more.  The Sauce Boss offers up sustenance and redemption in the form of music, food, and above all, the love of the brotherhood of man. 

ONE MORNING IN THE EARLY 70'S, THE SAUCE BOSS WALKED OUT OF HIS HOUSE AND FOUND A 1933 VINTAGE NATIONAL STEEL GUITAR in his front yard. That lead him down the Blues path. Deep in the shed, he penned "Let the Big Dog Eat", which was featured in Jonathan Demme's film "Something Wild". Years later he combined his blues with his hot sauce in a big pot of gumbo, made right on stage. Singing the recipe, he mixed his music and cooking together into a new medium.

SINCE 1990, THE SAUCE BOSS HAS COOKED GUMBO FOR OVER 160,000 PEOPLE, ALL FOR FREE while simultaneously playing his own swampy Florida blues. A Sauce Boss event transcends performance. It's a soul-shouting picnic of rock&roll brotherhood, involving everyone. And at the end of the show, everyone eats.