ryan bingham
Americana singer/songwriter Ryan Bingham was raised in rural Texas, where years of hardscrabble ranch work and competitions on the rodeo circuit would eventually surface in the dusty riffs of his country-styled debut, Mescalito. [1]
Ryan Bingham knows a thing or two about pain. [2]
George Ryan Bingham (born March 31, 1981) is an American alt-country singer from Hobbs, New Mexico. [3]
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Aided by the sympathetic production of Marc Ford — perhaps best-known for unspooling the sturdy rhythm guitar lines that powered the Black Crowes on their classic ’90s albums — Bingham manages to kick both the heart and the hips into high gear. [5]
“My mom had bought me a guitar when I was a kid and I never did play it very much, but I always had it hanging around. [...] That’s evident throughout Mescalito, from the Rolling Stones-flavored blues strutting of “Take It Easy Mama” to the deceptively gentle finger-picking that runs through the wistful “Don’t You Wait For Me.” [2]
He then made his major label debut with “Mescalito” on October 2, 2007, which was produced by former Black Crowes guitarist Marc Ford. [3]
?2008 Country Music Television, Inc., a Viacom company. [1]
That ache is palpable in the grooves of Mescalito, Ryan Bingham’s Lost Highway debut, but what’s even more plain is the steely strength needed to overcome it — a tenor that’s evident in both the singer-songwriter’s preternaturally wizened voice and his remarkably poignant songs, which resonate with roadhouse wisdom and rough-and-ready border-town piquancy. [...] Bingham’s affection for tradition is evident throughout Mescalito, an album that finds Bingham digging deep into raw-boned country (on the just-jawed workingman’s ode ‘Dollar a Day’) and revisiting his border-town upbringing (on the lilting, Spanish-language mariachi track ‘Boracho’s Station’). [5]
Texas Music Magazine has opined that “Bingham talks and sings with a whiskey-and-cigarette throat that screams hard living. [...] Bingham and fellow band mates Matthew Smith (drums), Corby Schaub (guitar and mandolin) and Elijah Ford (bass) are currently touring the United States and Europe in support of the Mescalito album. [3]
Bingham was offered a weekly residency at the bar; soon after, he began issuing such self-released albums as Lost Bound Rails and Wishbone Saloon. [1]
‘I first started playing music when I was about 17 years old and living down on the border of Mexico,’ he recalls. [5]
Sources:
[1] CMT.com : Ryan Bingham : Biography
[2] Ryan Bingham Music Profile on IMEEM
[3] Ryan Bingham - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
[4] Ryan Bingham on IMEEM
[5] Lost Highway Records: Ryan Bingham