Sauce Boss- Sky Blues (Burning Disk): The Guess

First things first: no, I did not pay ten bucks for this. I don't know what that number means, but it was most certainly not the price.

Now that that's established, what's on the front cover that's actually supposed to be there? We have an older gent in full chef's regalia, holding a guitar, and standing in front of a cloud. I'm a little frightened at how much sense that makes, because the amount of sense that should make is zero. But it makes sense for the boss of sauce to be a chef, and there are clouds in the sky.

What else we got?

We got a track list, is what we got. Fourteen songs, three of which have titles containing "blues," four of which have titles that concern cooking. So again: A chef who plays the blues.

Burning Disk Records is not a name I'm familiar with, so that doesn't tell me anything. A 2002 copyright date tells me that I'm almost guaranteed a trip to the Internet Archive when I try that website after the listen.

There is a possible indicator of the record's sound, though: the song lengths. Nine out of fourteen are under three minutes, and none of them make it to five. This is not guitar jam blues. In fact, I'm willing to bet that there are no guitar solos longer than 30 seconds.

Here's the exterior unfolded:

Bass and drums plus guitar, vocals, rub board, and jaw harp. If this is not a blues record, reality has tilted off its axis. Also, the bassist spells "magic" with a J, because when you have the blues, you're too depressed to get out a dictionary.

How about that interior:

Well, that's not Arizona. I suppose the recording studio and management agency both being in Florida are also good anti-indicators. So unlike a lot of my unknown finds, this one's traveled to get here.

Further blues clues: there's a Robert Johnson cover. There's also a John Martyn cover. His bag was folk, but I'd bet a lot more on bluesed up folk than folked up blues.

Apologies that this isn't much of a post, but there are arrows that aren't as straightforward as this disc appears to be. We'll know for sure when I come back with The Listen.