Editing Sap (EP) (section)

==Background and recording==
Following the tour for ''[[Facelift (album)|Facelift]],'' Alice in Chains entered the studio to record a song for the [[Cameron Crowe]] movie ''[[Singles (1992 film)|Singles]]'', but decided to turn the engagement to their advantage. As the guitarist [[Jerry Cantrell]] recalled: "So in the session that was meant for recording that one song ['[[Would?]]'], we ended up demoing about 10 songs, which included all the stuff that ended up on the [1992] ''Sap'' EP, '[[Rooster (song)|Rooster]]' and a couple of others from ''[[Dirt (Alice in Chains album)|Dirt]]''.”<ref name="classic rock">{{Cite web|url=https://www.loudersound.com/features/the-story-behind-the-song-rooster-by-alice-in-chains|title=The Story Behind The Song: Rooster by Alice In Chains|last=Yates|first=Henry|website=Classic Rock Magazine|language=en|date=November 15, 2006|access-date=February 4, 2020|archive-date=December 19, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191219203247/https://www.loudersound.com/features/the-story-behind-the-song-rooster-by-alice-in-chains|url-status=live}}</ref>

While in the studio, drummer [[Sean Kinney]] had a dream about "making an EP called ''Sap.''"<ref name="timeline"/> The band decided "not to mess with fate,"<ref name="timeline"/> and ''Sap'' was recorded and mixed in 1991 with producer [[Rick Parashar]] at [[London Bridge Studio]].<ref name="rain man">{{Cite magazine |last=Gilbert |first=Jeff |date=January 1993 |title=Rain Man: Alice in Chains' Jerry Cantrell Cleans Up His Act and Hits Pay Dirt |url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/nemi72/6131069350/in/album-72157627632476310/ |magazine=Guitar World |volume=14 |issue=1 |pages=30–32}}</ref>

The EP was recorded in four or five days in November 1991.<ref name="GW92">{{Cite magazine |last=Katherine |first=Turman |date=April 1992 |title=Alice In Chains' Jerry Cantrell reflects on his band's breakthrough success and Sap, their new, acoustic based EP |url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/nemi72/7189330650/in/album-72157627632476310/ |magazine=Guitar World |volume=13 |issue=4 |pages=23, 24, 102–104}}</ref><ref name="timeline"/>