It’s officially the Holidays!
Time to reup on yer supplies. Don’t get caught with yer hot sauce down.
While you’re at it, you might wanna get some music or a copy of my book. It’s a Memoir/Song and Recipe Book. While reading you can follow the link and hear the audio of the tunes. All the songs, recipes, and photographs follow the storyline. And it’s quite a picaresque, following my Quixotic mission to make as much noise as I could, while attempting to keep my sideburns intact. Somehow I made it through a high speed chase, a couple of heart attacks and 30 years of living on the road. I really appreciate your buying my sauce and music. It’s helping me get through this year with all my gigs canceled. Here’s a link to the Sauce Boss Store. http://sauceboss.com/shop

Sorry to be absent from the social media.
I have not been sitting on my hands. I’ve been busy. Working every bit as much as when I was touring, and that was hard work. I swear I work myself worser than any boss I ever had. I love to use the word “worser”. (To think that I was once certified to teach english. LOL!) In these crazy daze when things are not as you would expect them to be, just say…”2020.” It covers pretty much any situation. In addition to wrapping up my upcoming album and getting my winter gardens all squared away, I’m building a studio and workshop.

It’s a work in progress. Lots left to do, but it’s dried in, and I have already cut a percussion track for the new album in the room. Even without the insulation, it sounds awesome. I played a midnight set to see how much it rocks and did not wake the neighbors. I’m stoked to have a day or night, anytime the urge hits, kind of place to play whatever I want to play, whenever I wanna play it kind of a scene.

Thanks to my daughters, Annie and Mary, for the encouragement, and to my son, Floyd, for coordinating the building of this amazing space. It sounds like a hall! A 16 X 20 foot room has an 8 X 16 foot workshop in the rear. All this is 10 feet from my house.

Ruthie Wharton did a thing!!!
She had a little birthday benefit on the Facebook, figuring she could make enough to fund a Planet Gumbo show at a homeless shelter. Well…she made her goal in record time, so she upped her goal. She finally ended up collecting well over $5000 in donations. So, here’s the plan: as soon as it is safe for me to hit the road, we will travel to California and back, taking my music and gumbo to soup kitchens and homeless shelters nationwide. We at Planet Gumbo realise what this pandemic has meant to millions of Americans who will lose their homes, or be without food. Since I will not have time to book the paying gigs to get me out there and back, the donations will finance the trip. As Director, musician, chef, and gumbo pot washer, I receive no salary from Planet Gumbo. Your donations and my elbow grease keep the Planet Gumbo Shows happening. Thanks to all y’all who give to Planet Gumbo. Give here.

In closing, I want to keep it as upbeat as I can, but I realize that the next few months are going to be brutal. With nearly 200,000 new cases of the virus each day, it’s rising exponentially. Please show compassion for your neighbors, and especially the essential workers who are stressed to the breaking point already. I will leave you with this: We are in this together. It’s time to get past the “ME, ME, ME, Mine, Not Yours” mentality. Doctors and nurses are literally killing themselves so that you can live. Please show some respect and… Check this out.