Encore: Gladys Knight’s Singing Kitchen

Biscuits & Jam

Meredith Corporation

Music Interviews, Arts, Food, Music

4.8 • 608 Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2021

⏱️ 33 minutes

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In this week’s episode, Sid Evans, Editor-in-Chief of Southern Living Magazine, talks to the legendary Gladys Knight about her Atlanta upbringing, making cobbler from scratch, and how her group’s biggest hit “Midnight Train to Georgia” almost didn’t happen. For more info visit: southernliving.com/biscuitsandjam Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:26.6	Hey everyone, Sid Evans here. We're getting ready for season two of Biscuits & Jam, but in the meantime, we wanted to reshare our episode with
0:38.5	the one and only Gladys Night. Enjoy.
0:42.2	Welcome to another episode of Biscuits and Jam from Southern Living. I'm Sid
0:50.6	Evans, editor-in-chief of Southern Living magazine. My guest today says that long before her track to stardom, she sang with her family in the kitchen.
1:00.6	All the time, I can remember that after we ate, we sang.
1:05.9	And I could hear my mom and my aunties.
1:09.7	They would have the kitchen window up up and we could hear them singing.
1:13.5	All my folks could sing, my mom, my aunties, my uncles, and my cousins. It was like that.
1:21.9	Gladys Knight, known around the world as the Empress of Soul, began performing in her native Atlanta at age four.
1:29.8	By 15, she and her brother and cousins, known as the Pips, already had a hit with their debut
1:36.7	single, Every Beat of My Heart, in 1961.
1:41.1	Despite success on the R&B charts over the next decade,
1:45.3	1973 changed everything for the quartet with the release of Midnight Train to Georgia,
1:51.7	which became not just the group's crossover hit,
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