Bill Wharton & The Ingredients

Bill Wharton & The Ingredients

Genres: blues, guitar, rhythm and blues, blues rock

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About Bill Wharton & The Ingredients

Bill Wharton and the Ingredients are the ultimate blues playin', gumbo cookin' and food eatin' band from Monticello, Florida (just east of Tallahassee). Along with his red hot brand of slide guitar-drenched blues, Wharton whips up his trademark pot of hot, fresh gumbo to feed the audience at the live concerts. For anyone seeing Bill Wharton for the first time, his show is an overwhelming event. Wharton preaches his "gospel of gumbo, assembled his culinary creation and continually urges the audience (especially the women) to help him out by stirring the pot until the gumbo was ready to eat. When he adds his burning slide guitar to the mix, everyone got a show that they could see, hear, smell, touch and taste. Wharton and the band attacks the stage with a contagious zeal and commitment to making sure that everyone has a good time. However, the craziness and party atmosphere never hides the fact that Bill Wharton is one amazing slide guitarist! "Let The Big Dog Eat" and burning through his sets as if he couldn't wait to get to the next song (and into the gumbo), Wharton and his band, including mainstays John Babich on piano/organ, "Magic" John Michael Jones on bass and Donnie Sanchez on drums, provides a tight, muscular sound that screams, DANCE! DANCE! DANCE! Wharton's show also includes music to cook by; as the band played behind him, he sings, talks and throws ingredients into the bubbling metal pot on the stage (and a piece of okra or two at the audience). Wharton keeps the mood going with aptly-titled songs like, "I'm Cookin' " and "Stir The Pot." When Wharton isn't tearing off amazing slide riffs one after the other, John Babich pounds out some fine boogie piano to the driving backbeat provided by Donnie Sanchez and "Magic" John Michael Jones. As promised at the end of the evening, gumbo is served to anyone and everyone who sought a taste of Wharton's personal "food of the gods." When all was said and done, everyone leaves satisfied, thanks to a great big helping of good music and hot gumbo. There is really only one word that best describes Bill "The Sauce Boss" Wharton. Passion! He is passionate about his Gumbo. He is passionate about his sauces (Bill said his sauce gave him a path to follow). He is passionate about his slide guitar. He is passionate about playing the blues. He is passionate about paying respect to the originators of the blues. As well as a bluesman, Wharton is part story-teller, part stand-up comedian, part evangelist, and part snake-oil salesman.

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