On US Independence Day, we are proud to be showcasing two phenomenal artists from Nashville! Hannah Aldridge & Rod Picott.
*Please note that The Sound Lounge is a mixed seating & standing venue and tickets are unreserved.
Mon Jul 4 2022
8:00 PM (Doors 7:00 PM)
£13.10
All Ages
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Hannah Aldridge & Rod Picott LIVE at The Sound Lounge SUTTON
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Hannah Aldridge
Country
With every song, Hannah Aldridge is facing down demons of a life once lived from substance abuse to failed relationships and scars from the lashes of the bible belt. Raised in the extremely religious State of Alabama, Hannah has since her early years felt an affinity to the darkness found in the Southern Gothic themes and has developed a fondness of writing songs with elements of horror brought on by dark thoughts of depression or hopelessness. Finding her calling in exploring these heavy-laden feelings and impulses that we all have, but are typically afraid to indulge in.
After her acclaimed ‘Live in Black and White’ album, Hannah, like everyone else in the world, got caught up in the global pandemic and as such had the opportunity to take stock and return to her home base to begin work on new songs and for the time when she could return to playing live. As she began working on new music she found herself diving deeper into the harder rock side of her influences, whilst still retaining the core elements of her sound, following a path that she’d already taken some tentative steps on, towards a darker, harder, rock influenced set of songs, highlighted by her collaboration with former Godhead leader Jason Charles Miller.
Hannah’s new single ‘Sinking’ is a cover of the Godhead original from 2001, and features Jason Charles Miller himself.
Mixing her personal life and the sounds of her hometown, Hannah takes influences from across the rock genre. Working with one foot in country music and the other in rock has given Aldridge a fresh kind of Southern Rock styled by Southern Gothic storytelling. The honesty she crafts into each track is offset by her stubborn, even defiant, nature, which gives her music a hopeful silver lining.
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Rod Picott
Country
Rod Picott has carved himself a career, a stellar series of albums and consistent touring finally allowing him to give up his day job as a sheetrock hanger.
Tagged as a “blue collar” storyteller he has recently branched out into the world of literature publishing his poetry and a book of short stories but he was almost derailed last year following a major health scare. He survived, thankfully, but that brush with mortality gave him pause for thought leading to this, his most stripped back and personal album so far. ‘Tell The Truth & Shame The Devil’ is not solely about his illness but, as he says in his liner notes, “Confronting mortality, I asked myself a few questions. Who am I? Who have I been?” Some of the songs try to answer these questions, others delve into his past and a few are simply just excellent examples of his song writing as Picott bares his soul on what is a magnificent record.
Now in his fifties, Rod Picott has garnered a loyal cult audience across the U.S. and Europe. He tours tirelessly and continues to garner rave reviews for both his songwriting skills and darkly humorous, compelling live show, building on past support tours with the likes of Alison Krauss and co-writes with Amanda Shires..
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