Sugar is an album by the musician Leon Redbone, released in 1990.[2][3] Redbone supported the album with a North American tour.[4] A video was shot for "So, Relax".[5]
Redbone used ribbon microphones during the recording sessions.[6]Ken Peplowski played saxophone and clarinet.[7]Cindy Cashdollar contributed on dobro; Dan Barrett on trombone.[8][9] "Right or Wrong" and "Ghost of the St. Louis Blues" are versions of songs made famous by Emmett Miller; Redbone considered Miller to be a chief influence on the album, and thought about writing a book on the musician.[10][11][12] Redbone's guitar playing was influenced by Blind Blake.[13] "Pretty Baby" is a version of the Tony Jackson song.[14]
Redbone wrote three of the album's songs.[15] He included "The Whistling Colonel" after a movie studio instead chose to use one of his older songs on a soundtrack.[16]
The Chicago Tribune deemed the album "another quaint and charming set shaped by the minstrel tunes, blues and jazz of the early 1900s."[6] The Calgary Herald recommended the album "for those who like their aural history lessons arch."[17] The Edmonton Journal stated that "shades of Django Reinhardt, New Orleans, gutbucket blues, dixie, Broadway and bluegrass sounds are somehow stitched together with loving care."[7]The Gazette concluded that "if a Bugs Bunny cartoon could sing, Leon Redbone's voice would bubble out of its technicolor throat."[20]The Washington Post noted the absence of "the kind of nimble fingerstyle guitar arrangements Redbone previously devised to revive songs."[10]
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