Click Here for Video Sample! Award-Winning Texas Singer/Songwriter's Sixth Studio Album On Double LP!
Features The Song "Wolves"!
Award-winning singer/songwriter Ryan Bingham's highly anticipated sixth studio album finds Bingham honing his creativity on two distinct levels, the personal and the cultural. The record is co-produced with Charlie Sexton, the superb Austin guitarist who has played for years in Bob Dylan's touring band. American Love Song was recorded at Arlyn Studios and Public Hi-Fi in Austin with additional recording at Matter Music/Stella Sound in Los Angeles.
From the beginning of his recording career, with Mescalito, Bingham has defied easy classification. As a rising country star, he ranged from Woody Guthrie-style folk songs and Spanish-language balladry to gritty hard rock. It's all American music; fittingly, he was honored as the Americana Music Association's 2010 Artist of the Year. He's enjoyed thrilling highs and suffered debilitating lows, sometimes all at once. While his career was taking off he won both an Oscar and a Grammy for "The Weary Kind", the theme song he wrote for the film Crazy Heart he was coping with the tragic deaths of his mother, an alcoholic, and his father, who took his own life. The losses put Bingham in a dark tunnel, and it took a while to crawl his way out. With the help of his wife, Anna Axster, and some inner soul-searching, Bingham has come back into the light. American Love Song, the third studio album from the Axster-Bingham indie label (after 2012's Tomorrowland and 2015's Fear and Saturday Night), takes all his influences both musical and experiential and unites them in Ryan Bingham's best, most fully realized record to date.
From the opening track the spry "Jingle and Go", which recounts his early years as an itinerant open-mic performer working, like the great Texas bluesmen before him, for tips to the closer, "Blues Lady", a tribute to Janis Joplin, Aretha Franklin, Bingham's own late mother, and all the other strong women this country has produced, the album combines autobiographical reflection with a bittersweet celebration of our collective spirit in the face of enduring difficulties. Bingham's growing concerns about where we're at as a people come to a head on "America", the album's somber, instantly memorable signature song. Is there still an American dream, he asks, his voice rising to a poignant pitch. These 15 new songs from one of American music's most distinct voices answer that simple question with a resounding "Yes!"
Features:
• Double LP
• Gatefold jacket
• Limited time download code
Selections:
Side A:
1. Jingle And Go
2. Nothin' Holds Me Down
3. Pontiac
4. Lover Girl
Side B:
1. Beautiful And Kind
2. Situation Station
3. Got Damn Blues
4. Time For My Mind
Side C:
1. What Would I've Become
2. Wolves
3. Blue
Side D:
1. Hot House
2. Stones
3. America
4. Blues Lady
