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Welcome to a very special Mother's Day edition of Biscuits and Jam from Southern Living.

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

I'm thrilled for you to join me along with guests like Winona Judd,

Leanne Womack, Ashley McBride, and others as we discuss how their mothers have influenced their cooking, their music, and their way of life.

If you'd like to hear these interviews in full, subscribe to our program and dig through our previous

episodes for more talk about what being Southern is all about.

Kicking us off this week is a conversation I had with Darius Rucker.

Within the last year of the pandemic, as we've seen firsthand how important nurses are to the

well-being of our country, there's been a lot of well-deserved attention given to those

who have been on the front lines every day.

As Darius tells me, he learned all about compassion and empathy by watching his mom care

for everyone around her, whether they were a patient or a family member.

So were you encouraged by your mom or your family to sing as a kid, or was that not something that came until later?

No, my mom always encouraged me to sing. My mom was a great singer. I never really pigeonhole music

like a lot of people do. I never said I can listen to that or I can't listen to that. It was always

I listened to what I liked. I never decided what I liked until I heard it. Yeah.

You know, and growing up, you know, where I grew up, it was times, even from family members, where you get a lot of grief because, you know, while you listen to that white boy music, you know, I've heard that, you know, as a kid, I heard that a million times. And my mom would always get to take up for me. Always tell him to leave me alone, don't bother him. let him listen to what he wants to listen to. And, you know, it all paid off in the end, I think. And your mom was pretty busy, right? She was a nurse at the Medical University of South Carolina. Yeah, she worked really hard. You know, you're trying to feed five, six kids, you know, working doubles and stuff like that. She worked really hard, but she was a great mom.

She was always there for us. She was, you know, when she came home, no matter how tired she was,

if she wanted some time or attention, she was always there to give it to you.

Well, you know, right now we see the nurses are on the front lines more than ever with everything

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