Karen Fairchild on the Dying Art of Country Music
Karen Fairchild was born to Southern parents in Gary, Indiana, but whether she was living in the Midwest or the South, that Southern influen...
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In the South, talking about food is personal. It’s a way of sharing a part of your history, your family, your culture, and yourself. Each week, Sid Evans, Editor in Chief of Southern Living,...
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20 of 278 episodesEncore: Dolly Parton Is a Rockstar
Dolly Parton was last on the show back in 2020 at the height of the pandemic, and we talked on the phone about her Christmas traditions, her...
Lauren Alaina Was Made for the Stage
Lauren Alaina was born in Rossville, Georgia, where she discovered her love of music at a very early age. In 2011, she was introduced to mil...
Encore: Maggie Rose Should Not Be Underestimated
Maggie Rose was born and raised in Potomac, Maryland, where she grew up eating blue crabs, attending Catholic school, and singing solos in f...
Duane Betts Thinks “Hope” Is a Beautiful Word
Duane Betts is the son of legendary Allman Brothers Band cofounder Dickey Betts, and he's even named after another of the band's founding me...
Ashley Cooke Is Ready to Tell the Truth
Ashley Cooke grew up in a family that moved around a lot, from Wisconsin to California to Florida. But wherever she lived, music was always...
Cedric the Entertainer and Anthony Anderson Are the Kings of Barbecue
Cedric the Entertainer first rose to national fame as one of The Original Kings of Comedy before starring in films like Barbershop and the h...
Willow Avalon Is a Pistol-Packin’ Outlaw
Willow Avalon was born and raised in a part of rural Georgia that she says “felt like the Wild West.” She got her start performing in the Ba...
Clint Black Is Still Killin' Time
Clint Black spent years honing his craft in Texas clubs and honky-tonks before breaking through with his landmark 1989 album, Killin' Time,...
Steve Earle’s Fearless Heart
Steve Earle is a Grammy-winning songwriter, performer, author, actor, activist, and storyteller whose career has been defined by honesty, gr...
Encore: Shuai Wang’s Journey from China to Charleston
Chef Shuai Wang was the runner-up on the 22nd season of Bravo’s Top Chef and is the force behind two standout restaurants in Charleston, Sou...
Breland Has a Thing for Truck Songs
Daniel Gerard Breland, better known simply as BRELAND, grew up as the son of ordained ministers in a household deeply rooted in music and fa...
Carla Hall's Biggest Year Ever
Carla Hall is a chef, restaurateur, author, and television host you may recognize from Bravo’s Top Chef, ABC’s Emmy Award-winning daytime sh...
Evan LeRoy Is Making Some of the Best Barbecue in the World
Evan LeRoy and his partners at LeRoy and Lewis are making what they call “New School Barbecue,” blending traditional smoking techniques with...
Ben Rector Celebrates Life As It Is
Ben Rector grew up in Tulsa, Oklahoma, a place he says has its own brand of Southern. He first picked up guitar after watching counselors pl...
Encore: How Fred Minnick Went from the Battlefield to the Bourbon Trail
Fred Minnick is one of the most knowledgeable people in America when it comes to whiskey. Born and raised in the small town of Jones, Oklaho...
Amy Grant Doesn't Take a Single Day for Granted
Amy Grant first joined Biscuits & Jam back in 2021, shortly after undergoing open-heart surgery. Not long after that conversation, she was i...
Heather McMahan Is Ready to Let It Rip
Heather McMahan was born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia, in a close-knit family that loved to laugh and had a real sense of adventure. Her d...
Kathryn Stockett Stirs the Pot with 'The Calamity Club'
Kathryn Stockett’s The Help captivated millions of readers and brought national attention to the complex relationships between Black houseke...
Susan Tedeschi Has Superpowers
Susan Tedeschi may have been born and raised in Boston, but she’s forged a deep and lasting connection to Southern culture. She grew up on b...