Welcome to Biscuits and Jam from Southern Living. I'm Sid Evans, editor-in-chief of Southern Living magazine.

Today I'm joined by an artist who got lessons in cooking from all sides of his family growing up.

Whether it was his grandmother making biscuits every morning from scratch, or his grandfather's dedication to barbecue.

Not only did he cook old school, like on a pit, burning your own coals, and just kind of doing it the old school way,

but he also upped it and started building

these big grills out of big oil tanks. He would do all the welding, every nut, every bolt.

He literally figured out how big he needed every hole for the gas burners. So that was a big part

at the barbecue and stuff like that growing up.

Lee Bryce was born and raised in Sumter, South Carolina, and had equal passions for sports and songwriting while attending Clemson University. When an injury officially sidelined his football

career, he set his sights on Nashville in 2001 and slowly made a name for himself in Music

City. With multiple ACM awards under his belt, he released his most recent album, Hey World, last year.

On the stirring title track, a duet with vocalist blessing offer, Lee speaks for a lot of us

looking for a break from it all.

Hey, world,

leave me alone.

I don't want to turn on the TV.

Ain't nothing but bad news on.

Yeah, the rain can wait

for another day

and this heart's worn out

has had all it can take

hey world

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