Author: Martha Hall Foose – A Southerly Course
Author: Teresa Nicholas – Burying Daddy
Music: Mack Allen Smith and Jamie Isonhood
Music: Johnny Rawls
In the highly anticipated follow-up to her James Beard Award-winning, Screen Doors and Sweet Tea, Martha Hall Foose continues her conversation with readers with her new book, A Southerly Course, Recipes and Stories From Closer to Home (Clarkson Potter). The new book charts an even more intimate course in Martha’s life, and reflects how foodways in the South have changed and continue to change. Readers will find recipes for tried-and-true classics, like Skillet Fried Corn and Chocolate Chiffon Pie, as well as dishes that are surprising and new, like Peanut Chicken and Sweet Pickle Braised Pork Shoulder. No matter the inspiration, all of the recipes have one thing in common: each comes with a story.
Martha Hall Foose was born and raised in the Mississippi Delta, attended the famed pastry school École Lenôtre in France. She returned to Mississippi and opened Bottletree Bakery in Oxford and Mockingbird Bakery in Greenwood.
Teresa Nicholas was born and raised in Yazoo City. She worked in book publishing in New York for twenty-five years. A freelance writer since 2002, she has contributed to Delta magazine, Mississippi magazine and NPR’s Opinion Page. She is also a travel writer for Fodor’s in Mexico and Guatemala. She lives in Yazoo City and San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, with her husband, the writer Gerard Helferich. Buryin’ Daddy is her first book. It is a memoir that describes the troubled relationship Nicholas had growing up with her father. After his death, she returns to Mississippi and with the aid of her mother, embarks on a journey of discovery about her dad that forces her to appreciate him a whole new light.
Rockabilly singer Mack Allen Smith was born in 1938 in Carroll County. During his career, Smith has recorded over 150 songs, released a series of records and toured this country and England with his band, the Flames. One of their live performances is captured on the CD, “Mack Allen Smith – Live on Halloween” which was recorded at the Country Music Palace in Vaiden, Mississippi. Smith is also the author of two books, a novel Honky Tonk Addict, and a memoir, Looking Back One Last Time.
Jamie Isonhood grew up in the Yazoo City area and was playing piano by age five. Over the years he has played solo as well as with bands, such as with the Mack Allen Smith Band. In 1989, Isonhood appeared in the movie, Miss Firecracker, and wrote the film’s theme song. His most recent CD, is I Played My Blues in Memphis.
Guitarist Johnny Rawls was born in Columbia, Mississippi and raised in Purvis and Gulfport. Rawls’ CD, Red Cadillac, charted at #1 on the Living Blues chart. He was nominated for Best Male Soul Blues Artist and Best Soul Blues Album by the Blues Foundation. He won the Critics Award for Best Album of the Year by Living Blues Magazine.
Ace of Spades was released in 2009 and charted at #4 and remained in the top 20 for three months. Johnny won Best Soul Blues Album of the Year and was nominated for Best Male Soul Blues Artist of the Year by the Blues Foundation. Recently, Johnny’s long career has been honored with a Blues Trail Marker located at the original site of the Hi Hat Club in Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Rawl’s’ newest CD, Memphis Still Got Soul (Catfood Records) has just been released.
Join host Jim Dees and our house band, the Yalobushwhackers this Thursday, April 14 at 6PM at Off Square Books. You can hear the show locally Thursday on Rebel Radio (92.1 FM). Tune in to Mississippi Public Broadcasting every Saturday night at 7PM for Thacker Mountain Radio immediately following A Prairie Home Companion, or listen Saturday online.
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