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Rhiannon Giddens is on Southern Living's Biscuits & Jam podcast. She talks with Southern Living Editor-in-Chief Sid Evans about her childhood in North Carolina, learning from her mentor Joe Thompson, making music with Carolina Chocolate Drops and in her own solo work, her new opera, Omar, and more, not least her efforts to bake the perfect biscuit. “I feel like I represent what the South is, which is a mixture of things,” Giddens says. “And I think that’s where our strength is.” You can hear their conversation here.

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Rhiannon Giddens is the guest on the latest episode of Southern Living magazine’s Biscuits & Jam podcast. She talks with Southern Living Editor-in-Chief Sid Evans about her childhood in North Carolina, learning from her mentor Joe Thompson, making music with Carolina Chocolate Drops and in her own solo work, her new opera, Omar, and more, not least her efforts to bake the perfect biscuit during the Covid-19 lockdown in Ireland.

“I feel like I represent what the South is, which is a mixture of things,” Giddens says. “And I think that’s where our strength is.”

You can listen to their conversation here:

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Rhiannon Giddens: 'Southern Living: Biscuits & Jam' podcast, August 2022
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    Listen: Rhiannon Giddens Talks with 'Southern Living''s 'Biscuits & Jam' Podcast
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    Rhiannon Giddens is the guest on the latest episode of Southern Living magazine’s Biscuits & Jam podcast. She talks with Southern Living Editor-in-Chief Sid Evans about her childhood in North Carolina, learning from her mentor Joe Thompson, making music with Carolina Chocolate Drops and in her own solo work, her new opera, Omar, and more, not least her efforts to bake the perfect biscuit during the Covid-19 lockdown in Ireland.

    “I feel like I represent what the South is, which is a mixture of things,” Giddens says. “And I think that’s where our strength is.”

    You can listen to their conversation here:

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