Cookbook Author and Award Winning Songwriter Ink Distribution Deal With Legendary Smokehouse

Online, January 27, 2011 (Newswire.com) - Devon O'Day, author of "My Southern Food" (Thomas Nelson Publishers) and award winning songwriter/artist Kim McLean have linked with the famous Smokehouse Restaurant in Monteagle, TN for distribution of autographed cookbooks and southern soundtrack music. With over a half million people stepping across the Smokehouse threshold each year, "My Southern Food" and "Sweet Tea: A Southern Soundtrack" seemed a perfect match for the homey atmosphere of the well known southern oasis high atop Monteagle Mountain. With bookstores and music stores closing at an alarming rate, it is the dependable accessibility of the family owned institutions like Jim Oliver's Smokehouse that will continue to supply the public with a hands-on store opportunity to buy organic music, heritage books, and homemade southern charm. Many of the ingredients in recipes found in Devon O'Day's My Southern Food can be found in the Smokehouse store, as well as the extensive online inventory at www.TheSmokehouse.com.

For fifty years, The Smokehouse has been a destination, a respite, and a watering hole for anyone traveling across the country on I-24 in Tennessee. They offer rooms, ca bins, family recreation, meeting space, a famous southern buffet, weekly live music shows, and a souvenir shop that sells everything from moccasins to mayhaw jelly. Last year alone some seven tons of their famous homemade fudge was sold. As a family owned business, the Olivers have weathered the storms of economic ups and downs by providing a warm hearth and great food to all who cross the mountain. Before there were chain stores and restaurants with mass produced products that say down-home, the Oliver family was cooking up cast-iron delights and selling handmade jams, jellies, sauces, and quilts in their log cabin restaurant serving everyone from celebrities, politicians, church folks, and bargain hunting families with the same open armed genuine welcome.

Along with autographed copies of the My Southern Food cookbook, the accompanying southern soundtrack series by Kim McLean can be found. Sweet Tea: A Southern Soundtrack features Sweet Tea heard around the U.S. on country radio, a popular re-make of the song Jambalaya, and the gospel favorite Suppertime . The second in the southern soundtrack series is a collection of well loved old camp meeting sing-a-long hymns and the new original Little White Church on the Hill collectively known as Camp Meeting Hymns from The Little White Church also performed by McLean.

Items like smoked country ham, signature bbq sauces, and southern spices fill the shelves of Jim Oliver's Smokehouse, many of the same items used in "My Southern Food". The lodge has hotel rooms, cabins, meeting and convention space, as well as a restaurant complete with a roaring fire in winter. Located halfway between Nashville and Chattanooga, TN, the lovely mountain views are year round at The Smokehouse with a live music show each Saturday night featuring top songwriter-artists from Nashville. To find out more information, to book lodging, or to get autographed copies of "My Southern Food" by Devon O'Day, The Sweet Tea Soundtrack, or Camp Meeting Hymns from The Little White Church by Kim McLean, log on to www.TheSmokehouse.com or visit www.mysouthernfood.com.