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Biscuits & Jam

Moving to Music City

Biscuits & Jam

Meredith Corporation

Music Interviews, Arts, Food, Music

4.8608 Ratings

🗓️ 7 March 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s episode, Sid Evans, Editor-in-Chief of Southern Living Magazine, shares stories from past guests about relocating to Nashville and what it was like starting out in Music City. You’ll hear stories from Lainey Wilson, Anderson East, Walker Hayes, Keb’ Mo’, and more! For more info visit: southernliving.com/biscuitsandjam Biscuits & Jam is produced by: Sid Evans - Editor-in-Chief, Southern Living Krissy Tiglias - GM, Southern Living Lottie Leymarie - Executive Producer Dominique Arciero - Audio Engineer/Producer Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:35.4

Hey everyone, welcome to Season 4 of Biscuits and Jam. I'm Sid Evans, editor-in-chief of Southern Living Magazine, and we're launching this season with a special episode about one of my favorite cities. Every year, aspiring country artists relocate to Nashville to pursue their career in music, but the move doesn't always lead to fame and fortune,

0:55.1

and it can often prove to be quite difficult.

0:58.1

Today on the show, I'm going to share stories from past guests about when they made the move

1:02.8

sometimes at a very young age and what it was like starting out in Music City.

1:08.0

I'm going to kick things off today with musician and actor Lainey Wilson,

1:12.0

who spent her early days in Nashville living in a camper trailer.

1:16.8

Lainey, you moved to Nashville in a camper trailer, and I think you said 2011. You didn't really

1:23.4

know anyone. What were some of your days and what did some of your early gigs look like?

1:29.1

Man, August 1st, 2011, I moved to Nashville and a Flagstaffed up a full camper trailer.

1:36.9

And I was known as the camper trailer girl. I didn't know where to start. I didn't know who to

1:42.9

talk to. I will say a crazy story that kind of goes with the whole camper trailer thing.

1:48.7

Back in the late 70s, my grandfather on my daddy side, his name was Basil Wilson.

1:54.8

I called him Buck.

1:56.2

There was a guy from my hometown who was kind of like family, but not.

1:59.5

But he had this dream of moving to

2:01.2

Nashville and being a songwriter and a producer and my grandfather gave him a few hundred

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