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 to kind of go to Florida every year, going to Disney for Thanksgiving and Christmas.

Once you introduce Santa Claus and Mickey together, can't really top that, so you got to 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.

Because it was just you and now it was just me and that was just the way that it used to be.

And we were just kids back then trying to figure out what he wore.

Oh, you wasn't that bad.

No, it wasn't that bad. No, it wasn't that bad.

It could have been better.

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