Southwest Airlines and Luck Presents have collaborated to present the second season of the multimedia travel guide Sites & Sounds, which celebrates musicians and the destinations that have inspired them. Episode six of the new season brings viewers to New Orleans where Durand Jones explores the city he grew up in to Maria Gough, an up-and-coming local artist.

The second season is available on Southwest.fm and onboard Southwest flights via the airline’s Inflight Entertainment Portal, where viewers can follow some of their favorite artists like Shovels & Rope and Matthew Logan Vasquez as they guide viewers through Charleston, Margo Price and Jeremy Ivey as they explore Nashville, and Jones and Gough as they showcase New Orleans.

The recent premiere of Sites & Sounds season two is coupled with the launch of a sweepstakes, where fans can enter for a chance to win round trip airfare for a winner and a guest to the featured city of their choice, plus a $500 Visa gift card. Entries are accepted, visit southwest.fm/sitesandsounds through November 30, 2021.

Sites & Sounds season one debuted in 2019 with Nikki Lane and Lukas Nelson in Hawaii, Micah Nelson and Sunny War in Austin, and Chuck Prophet and Aaron Lee Tasjan in San Francisco. The episodes of Sites & Sounds center around key areas of focus including culinary destinations with restaurants and chefs, the creative culture of the city with artists and musical venues, influential locals who make the city great, and perspectives from the artists in their respective cities. This second season introduces a fifth area of focus by incorporating acts of kindness, where a local cause that the host artist champions is highlighted in each of the three episodes, underscoring the One Million Acts of Kindness challenge that Southwest set in celebration of their 50th anniversary.

Jones founded Durand Jones and the Indications in 2012, a contemporary R&B and soul group, with songwriting singer/drummer Aaron Frazer and guitarist Blake Rhein. The band came to prominence as part of the soul revivalist movement around the time of the reissue of their debut album in 2018. Their second album, American Love Call, was released in March 2019, followed by Private Space in July 2021.

Gough, originally from Baton Rouge, moved to New Orleans at the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic when the city’s restaurants, nightclubs and attractions were closed. In the video she says, “I am so excited for Durand to show me around these places because I haven’t been to one of them.”

Jones and Gough satisfy their culinary cravings with a visit to Chance in Hell Snoballs, Toups’ Meatery and Banh Mi Boys. The duo also visit Meyer the Hatter and Preservation Hall, the venerable live music venue that has and continues to give back to the music community in impactful ways—this episode’s featured act of kindness. A stop to local favorite Euclid Records rounds out the tour.

“Sites & Sounds is a collaborative series with Southwest Airlines, designed to showcase special music cities across the United States from a musician’s perspective,” said Matt Bizer, CEO at Luck Presents. “Following the success of season one, we’re excited to extend the series with a second season, showcasing Charleston, Nashville, and New Orleans. Artists give an inside look at their favorite spots in their hometowns, providing an ideal itinerary for any Southwest traveler to use as a guide.”

Sites & Sounds builds upon a multi-year relationship between Luck Presents and Southwest Airlines. Since 2017, the companies have partnered on a variety of events and initiatives  centered around uplifting the live music community and the artists and places that make it possible, including Luck Reunion at Willie Nelson’s ranch in Austin. Together, Luck and Southwest continued the airline’s Artist On The Rise program to encourage  fans to vote for the best rising artist to open for Willie Nelson at each year’s Luck Reunion. Other partnership efforts include the Road to Luck Texas tour in 2019 and the Luck Embassy program, started in 2018, in which Southwest provides air travel  for musicians to advance their careers and reach new audiences with their music.

Inspired by its anti-festival, Luck Reunion, Luck Presents is an experience-based collective based in Willie Nelson’s backyard of “Luck, TX”. The mission is to foster the cross-section culture that has long motivated creative tradition. Outside of live events, Luck Presents creates distinctive content geared toward a shared creative vision. In addition to innovative content year-round, the company’s 2020 transition to virtual programming garnered nation-wide praise. Stay tuned for additional activations at luckpresents.com.