Ritch Henderson - Alive in Alabama (2024)

"When you’re born and raised in certain parts of rural Alabama where meth, opioids, and generational poverty ravage communities and offer little upward mobility or windows to the outside world, you look for any ladder to take you up and out wherever it might be found. For Ritch Henderson, this was writing poetry when he was young to cope, and eventually signing up for the United States Marine Corps.

"Little did he know that signing up for the military would mean going from the frying pan into the fire, where PTSD would haunt him no differently than the ghosts of the rural South, and ultimately lead to his own addiction issues that he would spend over a decade attempting to overcome.

"If there is any consolation, it’s that the shortest distance to the songwriting muse is suffering, and this is what has put Ritch Henderson in touch with some of the most potent inspirations and experiences to allow him sing right from the soul in a way that separates his songs from the massive onslaught of new recorded music. "