HANNAH ALDRIDGE, with the Goat Roper Rodeo Band, will return to Music in the Hall at St Georges Hall, Bewdley on Friday May 3.

A spokesman said: “In literature and in songwriting, the American South is where writers go to face their fears. Hannah Aldridge doesn’t just dip her pen into the well of the South, the Muscle Shoals native embodies it. With every song, she’s facing down demons of a life once lived from substance abuse to failed relationships and scars from the lashes of the bible belt.

“Hannah Aldridge is the daughter of Muscle Shoals legend Walt Aldridge. An Alabama Music Hall of Famer, Walt Aldridge is a prolific and decorated songwriter of countless Number One and Top Ten hits recorded by the likes of Lou Reed, Reba McEntire, Travis Tritt, Earl Thomas Conley, Ricky Van Shelton, Ronnie Milsap, and Conway Twitty.”

The spokesman added: “Mixing her personal life and the sounds of her hometown, Hannah Aldridge’s music also draws in influences from across the rock genre. Working with people with one foot in country music and one foot in rock, Hannah Aldridge makes a fresh kind of Southern Rock styled by Southern Gothic storytelling.

“She recorded at Creative Workshop in Nashville, where she worked with Muscle Shoals writers such as Mark Narramore, Tosha Hill, Matt Johnson and Brad Crisler and artists such as Andrew Combs, Ashley McBryde, Don Gallardo, Ryan Beaver, and Sadler Vaden .

“On “Gold Rush.” (her second album) she teamed up with Jordan Dean and M. Allen Parker and finally finishing by calling on her dad, Walt Aldridge, to master the record. It is a memorable body of work.”

Tickets are available from thehall-bewdley.org.uk or from St Georges Hall Café.