Encore: Fawn Weaver’s Whiskey Rebellion

Biscuits & Jam

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Music Interviews, Arts, Food, Music

4.8 • 608 Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Since 2016, Fawn Weaver has been obsessed with uncovering the true story of Nearest Green, a former slave who helped teach Jack Daniel the complicated process of making whiskey. Along the way, Fawn became so invested in her research that she bought the farm in Lynchburg, Tennessee, where Jack Daniel and Nearest Green worked together, and she’s since launched the Uncle Nearest Premium Whiskey brand, which is winning awards and making serious waves in the spirits business. Fawn stopped by the Southern Living offices on her recent book tour, so we had this conversation in our studio, and her personal journey is just as amazing as the man she’s writing about. Her new book, now a New York Times bestseller, is called Love & Whiskey: The Remarkable True Story of Jack Daniel, His Master Distiller Nearest Green, and the Improbable Rise of Uncle Nearest. Sid talks to Fawn about the process of reporting this incredible book, the foundation she created for Nearest Green’s descendants, and why she grew up with people like Stevie Wonder and Smokey Robinson at her kitchen table. For more info visit: southernliving.com/biscuitsandjam Biscuits & Jam is produced by: Sid Evans - Editor-in-Chief, Southern Living Krissy Tiglias - GM, Southern Living Lottie Leymarie - Executive Producer Michael Onufrak - Audio Engineer/Producer Jeremiah McVay - Producer Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:26.9	Hey, y'all, welcome to Biscuits and Jam.
0:29.2	I'm Sid Evans, and we're back with another one of our favorite episodes from season
0:33.4	five featuring the author and founder of Uncle Nearest Premium Whiskey, Fawn Weaver.
0:39.4	In 2024, Fawn released her third book, Love and Whiskey, an incredible story about her journey
0:46.4	that I'm telling everyone I know to read. And she was also awarded the Distinguished Patriotic
0:52.5	Award from the Veterans of Foreign Wars.
0:55.6	Fawn sat down with me here in our studio in Birmingham, and she's even more inspiring in conversation than she is on the page.
1:03.4	So I hope you enjoy it.
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1:18.7	Welcome to Biscuits and Jam from Southern Living. I'm your host, Sid Evans, and today I'm
1:23.4	talking with a remarkable woman who has rewritten the history of one of the most iconic
1:28.4	whiskey brands in the world. Since 2016, Fawn Weaver has been obsessed with uncovering the
1:34.9	true story of Nearest Green, a former slave who helped teach Jack Daniel the complicated process
1:41.3	of making whiskey. Along the way, Fawn became so invested in her research
1:45.9	that she bought the farm in Lynchburg, Tennessee, where Jack Daniel and Nearest Green
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