Hey everyone, it's Sid Evans here. This week we're resharing one of our favorite episodes featuring singer and songwriter Jimmy Allen.

Jimmy talks about growing up in Delaware and how the strength of his mother and grandmother had a profound influence on his music.

Enjoy.

Welcome to Biscuits and Jam from Southern Living.

I'm Sid Evans, editor-in-chief of Southern Living magazine.

My guest this week loves Disney World almost as much as he loves country music,

and he finds that's a hard thing to quit.

We've kind of started a new tradition of kind of going to Florida every year,

going to Disney for Thanksgiving and Christmas.

Once you introduce Santa Claus and Mickey together, you can't really top that, so you gotta do that every year.

But I love it. It's a way for families to come together.

Jimmy Allen was born and raised in Delaware,

but his family introduced him to both country music and church music at an early age.

He moved to Nashville in 2007, but struggled before his big break, at one point living in his car.

Now in 2020, he's got a critically acclaimed EP called Betty James, named for his father and grandmother,

which finds Jimmy singing duets with

Tim McGraw, Brad Paisley, Darius Rucker, and Mickey Guyton. One cut in particular, This

Is Us featuring Noah Cyrus, has become one of Jimmy's most popular tracks on Spotify. It's about

a love that never quite happened earlier in life, supported by a melody

you can't forget. on what you were. Oh, it wasn't that bad. No, it wasn't that bad.

It could have been better.

And finally back then we'd have been together

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