Ryan Bingham & The Dead Horses
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This is country music the way God intended it to be. On his second set for Lost Highway, this Texas-reared singer-songwriter delivers a dozen tunes full of hard living, hard drinking and hard rocking. The album could just as well have been called Roadhouse Son as Bingham’s biography reads like the lyrics of a country song, the tale of a young talent nurtured by roughnecks and raised on rough times.
Bingham’s story is one of self-reliance (reportedly, Bingham has lived on his own since his teens), salvation (finding a home as a bull-rider on a traveling rodeo circuit) and ultimately, success: a regular Wednesday night bar gig was the first step on the path to a highly-touted, incredibly well-received major label debut, 2007’s Mescalito.
Yet, Bingham is certainly not content to trade on his personal history or cash in by pandering to the conventions of country music. Certainly, Bingham’s talent shines through on the expected whiskey-and-women songs (“Every night I fall asleep with whiskey in my mind / Hoping that I might wake up next to you” he sings here on “Rollin Highway Blues”). He delivers these lines with staggering authenticity, letting out the right amount of both soul and swagger as he sings each note with his tough-as-an-asphalt-road voice. While cuts like these are to be treasured and would alone be worth the album’s sticker price, Bingham regularly expands the scope of what he’s doing, both musically and thematically.
Bingham’s story is one of self-reliance (reportedly, Bingham has lived on his own since his teens), salvation (finding a home as a bull-rider on a traveling rodeo circuit) and ultimately, success: a regular Wednesday night bar gig was the first step on the path to a highly-touted, incredibly well-received major label debut, 2007’s Mescalito.
Yet, Bingham is certainly not content to trade on his personal history or cash in by pandering to the conventions of country music. Certainly, Bingham’s talent shines through on the expected whiskey-and-women songs (“Every night I fall asleep with whiskey in my mind / Hoping that I might wake up next to you” he sings here on “Rollin Highway Blues”). He delivers these lines with staggering authenticity, letting out the right amount of both soul and swagger as he sings each note with his tough-as-an-asphalt-road voice. While cuts like these are to be treasured and would alone be worth the album’s sticker price, Bingham regularly expands the scope of what he’s doing, both musically and thematically.
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gjallen51 Junky Star is just s fine. Hope to see Ryan and the DH in Boston yet again. What real music, so awesome.
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