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Welcome to Biscuits and Jam from Southern Living.

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

My guest this week tells me that learning to cook was in some ways a lot like learning to play the guitar.

I've gotten to the point now where I'll use recipes, but I know the basics enough. I realize at a certain point that it's not too dissimilar from any creative art, if you will, and that you learn your scales, which is like learning how hot to keep the thing, like how long do you cook this? And then eventually you can use all those scales or skills to cook kind of anything. You know, you're like, okay, I know how to saute. I know not to put the butter on too

hot. I know to add the aromatics first. Once I learned some of those building blocks, it started to

become fun. And now I cook probably four or five times a week, at least. Parker Millsap grew up in Purcell, Oklahoma,

about 30 minutes outside of Oklahoma City. He got his musical start playing in the band for his

Pentecostal church, but he was also influenced by the likes of Lyle Lovett and Towns Van Zant,

and all those influences contributed to his first album in 2012.

Now living in Nashville, Parker's new record, Be Here Instead, was recorded during last

year's quarantine, and it's full of introspective songs that feel intensely personal,

but also universal. This song from Be Here Instead called The Real Thing is about missing his wife while out on tour

and how technology can only do so much to bring us together.

I can't stay.

I can't hold your head through the screen. I don't want to. On your reflection, I just want the real thing.

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