When Canton native Caroline Herring takes the stage at Hal & Mal’s on Saturday night, she’ll be riding in on a gentle wave of “Twilight” success. Singer/songwriter Herring, who now lives in the big alt-country city of Austin, Texas, captured the hearts of Lone Star fans in the same way her hauntingly simple melodies and slice-of-life Southern stories captured the hearts of Mississippians when Herring was a regular on the “Thacker Mountain Radio Show” in Oxford.

