Hey y'all, welcome to Biscuits and Jam from Southern Living.

I'm your host, Sid Evans, and today I'm talking with one of the first people I ever interviewed on this show way back in July of 2020.

Kimberly Schlapman, a founding member of the band Little Big Town, has been a musician almost all her life. As a little girl,

she played piano alongside her mother at a Baptist church near where she grew up in Cornelia, Georgia,

and even then people knew her voice was something special. Years later, on a choir camp bus,

when she was at Sanford University in Birmingham, Alabama, she met Karen

Fairchild, her future bandmate, and the rest is country music history.

But Kimberly has also made her mark as a cookbook author, a TV show host, and a passionate

fan of Southern food, and she's always found a creative outlet in the kitchen.

We'll talk about all that,

her divided allegiance between Tennessee and Georgia when it comes to football, her upcoming 25th anniversary tour with Little Big Town, plus how she's been handling her mother's struggle

with Parkinson's disease. All on this week's Biscuits and Jam.

Kimberly Schlatman, welcome back to Biscuits and Jam. I love being here with you, Sid.

If I could live inside Southern Living, that's where I would prefer.

I think that's going to be what my heaven looks like.

So the last time I was with you, I was up in a tiny little space upstairs because COVID had just taken over all of us.

And we were all scared.

And it was a different time. So I'm glad for the

freedom of today. Yeah, it was four years ago, spring of 2020. You're at your house in Nashville.

I'm at my house in Nashville. Yeah, this is our little home. This is the kitchen that the song

pontoon built.

So my husband and I, we've been in this house for 18 years.

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