Ryan Bingham
NewMusicForOldFolks says …
After his first two albums, Ryan Bingham worked with producer T Bone Burnett on the soundtrack of the Jeff Bridges film "Crazy Heart," including co-writing and performing the film’s award-winning theme song "The Weary Kind." The song won Bingham an Oscar and a Golden Globe. Bingham's Alternative Country, Roots Rock style is deeply personal and, at times, moving. The newest album Fear and Saturday Night is very good. If this is a style of music you like, this is an artist you need to know.
Artist's Info
Website: binghammusic.com
See him live: Tour dates
Record company: Axster Bingham Records
Genre: Blues, Roots
If you like this, look into: Lucero, Jason Isbell, Steve Earle
Bio (From artist's Facebook page)
Grammy and Oscar-winning singer/songwriter Ryan Bingham was born in New Mexico but raised all across the Southwestern United States. He set out on his own, at a young age, shuffling from town to town and performing gigs at local no-frills bars. It’s this spirit of having done plenty of living early on, that has informed the singer- songwriters world-weary and jagged, weather-beaten vocals. At only 34 years of age, Bingham has five studio albums under his belt (Mescalito, Roadhouse Sun, Junky Star, Tomorrowland & Fear And Saturday Night) the two most recent of which were released under his own label Axster Bingham Records. (more)
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Recordings
Most Recent
FEAR AND SATURDAY NIGHT (2015): Recorded mostly live with a brand new backing band Fear And Saturday Night shows Bingham facing down his past with a poetic grace throughout. The lead single Radio is about coping with a darkness that does not want to let go, searching for a safe place to make sense of your life and the strength to stay on the right track through it all. Some of the most affecting moments on the album are in the harmonica-driven wistful waltz Broken Heart Tattoos, a song written to an unborn child, and in the title track, Fear and Saturday Night. Those hard-learned lessons, through both good times and bad, helped make Bingham the man he is today. Fear And Saturday Night is the most authentic, personal, and deeply moving portrait of that man we have heard yet.
Others
Mescalito (2007)
Roadhouse Sun (2009)
Junky Star (2010)
Tomorrowland (2012)
