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Don't miss our final farewell to 2007 as we pack the Museum of Commerce with an all-star high energy musical blowout. Our December 6th RadioLive will feature Bill Wharton and the Ingredients, Grayson Capps and JB's Zydeco Zoo. Get all the information at our RadioLive Area.
Thursday, December 6, 2007 - Year End Blow Out
Join us as for a specially formulated end-of-year extravaganza featuring a trio of ultra-high energy acts. Bill Wharton and The Ingredients will be featured, along with Grayson Capps and JB's Zydeco Zoo. Get full artist information, bios, links and some great free tunes, see Artist Details, below.
Bill Wharton and the Ingredients
Back in the early 1970's Bill Wharton walked out of his house one morning and found a 1933 National Steel Guitar laying in his front yard. That lead him down the Blues path to a successful musical career. He soon wrote "Let the Big Dog Eat," which was featured in Jonathan Demme's quirky 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.
Bill also is a very successful chef and entrepreneur, with his own popular Liquid Summer Brand Sauces and he has been featured on national television including appearances on the Food Network's "Extreme Cuisine" and "Adventures with Keith Famie." The Boss has also been featured on CNN and EXTRA and has made radio appearances on both of NPR's flagship programs, "Morning Edition" and All Things Considered."
The Sauce Boss now has taken his music and his gumbo to the streets with the founding of the non-profit 501c3 organization, Planet Gumbo where the Sauce Boss and his band donate their performances (along with free gumbo) to Homeless Shelters all over the US. See the video.
Listen to Bill Wharton and the Ingredients
Sauce Boss .mp3 56k
Let the Big Dog Eat .mp3 56k
Grayson Capps
A native of Southern Alabama, Grayson was exposed at an early age to colorful characters including artists, musicians and poets. His father, Ronald Everett Capps, is a published author who tells stories taken from his family's own experiences along the Gulf Coast. The elder Capps' novel, "A Love Song for Bobby Long," was made into a major film starring John Travolta and Scarlet Johansson. Grayson's original music was featured in the movie's score, including the title track.
"I write songs which have the voice of dead prophets masquerading as town drunks screaming 'look at us we're pretty, too!' I've been playing guitar and singing for nearly twenty years now. I've played theaters, festivals, radio shows, TV shows, whiskey-beer crusted barrooms, living rooms, and camp fires. Some people call me a preacher others a poet, a singer, a guitar player, a landscaper, but I am only an actor strutting and fretting across the stage. I still have to use a shovel. I still have to dig in the dirt. But, I tell you what, I have a beautiful daughter named Sadie and a house on Music Street. Bobby and Fred are dead, but my father is alive and well in Alabama. No one knows what tomorrow will bring, but songs are still sung by those who continue to sing."
JB's Zydeco Zoo
"Though not a native to Louisiana, I am a student and big fan of Louisiana's roots music. As a piano player, the city of New Orleans captured my musical inspirations with artists like Professor Longhair, James Booker and Dr. John. In the mid-1980's I made my first pilgrimage to the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival and witnessed thousands dancing to Zydeco bands. As a result, I acquired an accordion and started playing Zydeco shows in Tallahassee. My love is ultra groovin' music that gives music lovers no chance but to dance.
With me in this groove are two of North Florida's most experienced and respected musicians. Missippy James on guitar and Jiggs Walker on bass. A recent Tallahassee transplant from Lafayette, Louisiana, Martin Guilbeau joins us on drums and Keith McCraw is our rubboard man. Our music is high energy, rockin', rhythmic Zydeco in the vein of Beau Jocque, Clifton Chenier, C.J. Chenier, Rockin' Dopsie and Stanley Dural, Jr. (AKA Buckwheat Zydeco). Also, my debut CD release "J.B.'s ZydecoZoo", contains 10 smokin' original Zydeco tunes."
