Welcome to the season two debut of Biscuits and Jam from Southern Living.

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

If you missed our previous episodes, dig back into our archives for interviews with

Willie Nelson, Dolly Parton, Gladys Knight, and many more. To kick off our new season,

I'm joined today by one of the most celebrated jazz musicians to ever emerge from the city

of New Orleans. He's also been a longtime ambassador for the Crescent City,

and that means he loves to talk about food. New Orleans is the only place I've ever been where

they plan the next meal at the meal. You're at then. So if you're at breakfast, people are like,

what are we doing for lunch? You just like, holy cow.

So even now when I go visit New Orleans, I really have to pace myself because, you know,

there's just access to so much good food.

A star of music, television, film, and Broadway, Harry Connick Jr. trained under the legendary pianist Ellis Marcellus and became a household name in the 90s with crossover hit songs like it had to be you.

A winner of multiple Grammys and Emmys, he starred in such films as Hope Floats and New in Town and on television's Will

and Grace and American Idol. In 2005, in the wake of the damage and loss in his hometown

caused by Hurricane Katrina, Harry led the fundraising charge to get New Orleans back on its

feet, helping to organize a national telethon

and becoming an honorary chair of Habitat for Humanity.

On today's show, Harry discusses his new album, made up of spiritual standards and his own songs about faith,

that speaks directly to the struggles our country has managed this past year.

It was exactly what I was feeling at the time. There's really not a lot of poetry there. There's

not a lot of hidden meaning. It's just like, I got to count on my faith to get me through this.

Plus Harry's Perfect Po-Boy and much more on our season two premiere of Biscuits and Jam.

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