Mississippi Weddings Features Story On Sucarnochee Review

Marianne Todd’s glossy magazine, Mississippi Weddings, makes its debut in major bookstores in March 2010. Look for a seven page pictorial/article entitled “Take Your Honey to the Sucarnochee Revue”. Marianne is one of Mississippi’s most recognized photographers and the wife of the talented Dudley Tardo of the famous House Rockers Blues Band featured in the film, Last of the Juke Joints.

(below is an excerpt)

It’s an electric night at Meridian’s Temple Theatre.

With the last of the crowd taking their seats, a wave of silence moves over the room as the pipe organ and its player lower like an elevator in front of the stage.

On stage, Jacky Jack White’s blues eyes sparkle from beneath the brim of his 10-gallon cowboy hat as the host glides through the beam of a white spotlight to center stage. The young woman to his right takes the microphone in hand.

“Now, your host for the evening, a South City Records recording artist, and also for those of you in Radio Land who can’t see Jacky Jack White, he’s my 6-foot-four bald-headed husband.”

Jody Tartt White turns on her heels and walks from the stage, but not before White can steal a kiss.

An enthusiastic applause rises to greet the lazy strum of her husband’s guitar.

“I’m sittin’ in the shade of a sycamore grove, listening to a blade of Johnson grass grow,” White begins to sing in a deep and seasoned voice. “It’s a perfectly marvelous moon pie afternoon.”

The violin on his left begins to weave its sound through the mix while behind him an upright bass plucks in rhythm. The Sucarnochee Revue has begun yet another Friday night of entertainment in this east Mississippi city known for its original music and high volume of accomplished musicians…

Marianne Todd