Hey y'all, welcome to Biscuits and Jam from Southern Living. I'm your host, Sid Evans.

And today I'm talking with a singer-songwriter who comes from a long tradition of Texas troubadours.

Hayes Carl was born in Houston and raised in the Woodlands, a famous planned community that was much smaller back then,

surrounded by thousands of acres of pine trees. He grew up listening to Kenny Rogers and

Willie Nelson, and later Jerry Jeff Walker and Towns Van Zant, all of whom seemed like

mythical figures to a kid from the suburbs. His family wasn't particularly religious,

but it was the music he heard at a Unitarian church that ultimately inspired him to pick up a guitar.

Now he and singer-songwriter Alison Moorer, his wife and sometimes collaborator, are living in Nashville,

and Hayes has developed something of a

mythical career of his own. We'll talk about all that, his formative years in Arkansas, the new

album he's planning to release next year, and his recent collaborations with the Austin-based

Band of Heathens on this week's Biscuits and Jam.

Well, hey, it's Carl.

Welcome to Biscuits and Jam.

Great to be here.

Where am I reaching you?

I'm at my home in Nashville, Tennessee.

Okay. And you've been in Nashville, Tennessee. Okay.

And you've been in Nashville for a good while now, right?

Yeah, probably six years or so.

Not too long before the pandemic, I guess.

Yeah, let's see.

...