New Ryan Bingham Album “Fear and Saturday Night” Coming
Fans of rough and tumble recording artist Ryan Bingham will be happy to hear that he will be releasing his latest record Fear and Saturday Night through his own label Axter Bingham Records on January 20th, 2015. It will be the once Lost Highway Records-signed Oscar-winning rodeo-bred songwriter’s follow up to 2012’s Tomorrowland, and his fifth album overall.
“On this album I find myself back in a more hopeful place and the songs are more stripped down musically,” Bingham says to The Wall Street Journal. “Each album seems to be about whatever I have gone through in my life previous to recording it.”
Bingham recorded the album with producer Jim Scott, well known for his work with Wilco, Tom Petty, and The Dixie Chicks. The twelve songs of Fear and Saturday Night were written in seclusion. Bingham sequestered himself in an Airstream trailer in the California mountains without electricity or phone service, and drew inspiration from his tale-riddled and troubled life performing in rodeos and watching his mother drink herself to death and his father commit suicide.
His song “The Weary Kind” won an Oscar for its part on the soundtrack of the movie Crazy Heart, but there’s nothing glitzy and Bingham’s past, or his style. His songs are punctuated with a gravely voice that has an authenticity you can’t fake. Fear and Saturday Night was mostly recorded live, and includes contributions from members of the rock band Rose Hill Drive.
Ahead of the new album, Bingham has released a new single “Broken Heart Tattoos” (listen below).
Fear and Saturday Night Track List:
1. “Nobody Knows My Trouble”
2. “Broken Heart Tattoos”
3. “Top Shelf Drug”
4. “Island in the Sky”
5. “Adventures of You and Me”
6. “Fear and Saturday Night”
7. “My Diamond Is Too Rough”
8. “Radio”
9. “Snow Falls in June”
10. “Darlin”
11. “Hands of Time”
12. “Gun Fightin Man”
October 25, 2014 @ 9:20 am
Based on his comments above I am hoping he leaning back towards Mescalito or Roadhouse Sun.
October 25, 2014 @ 10:23 am
Very exciting news. I became a fan of him immediately after hearing “don’t you wait for me”. This guy puts more raw emotion in his voice and writes better songs than almost anyone else.
October 25, 2014 @ 12:23 pm
Outstanding news. I just listened to Mescalito again the other day. I can never get enough “Southside of Heaven.”
October 25, 2014 @ 2:53 pm
Kinda hoping for a return to the Mescalito and Roadhouse Sun records. The last two were kinda meh for my taste.
October 25, 2014 @ 4:54 pm
Good news! I really like “Broken Heat Tattoos.”
October 25, 2014 @ 6:11 pm
“On this album I find myself back in a more hopeful place and the songs are more stripped down musically. Each album seems to be about whatever I have gone through in my life previous to recording it.”
That’s a very creative way to say, “‘Tomorrowland’ was too out there for my core audience, so I’m punting that whole shebang and trying to sell albums again.”
October 25, 2014 @ 8:19 pm
I don’t know if it was too out there as much as I think the production and content didnt suit Bingham as much as his previous three albums. I know people have mentioned Mescalito and Roadhouse Sun, but I also really enjoyed a number of songs off Junky Star especially the title track. I think Bingham’s voice is best suited to the material and production that was found on his first three albums more than Tomorrowland.
The good news is the first song off the album sure seems to be closer to that and coincidentally or not I really enjoyed it.
October 25, 2014 @ 7:52 pm
Sweet!!! Can’t wait for it, if it is anything like Mescalito I will have to pick it up. Love the song Southside of Heaven and Bread and Water.
October 25, 2014 @ 9:14 pm
Been listening to Ryan for years now, I can’t wait for the new album.
October 25, 2014 @ 9:46 pm
Bingham is definitely one of the talents that brought me to the dark side (country music). He’s more Americana, but everything he has put out has been solid and his Mescalito is a one of kind classic. He seems to be going it on his own after dropping the label, his band (Dead Horses), and leaving the management up to himself and his wife. Hope they keep the momentum going. Highly recommended artist!
October 26, 2014 @ 3:16 am
For my money Junky Star has been the highlight so far, I’ve not had chance to pick this latest album up yet but I’m hoping he’s hitting that groove again. He’s at his best when he’s just being himself, ploughing his own furrow.
October 26, 2014 @ 7:33 am
Tomorrowland was certainly my least favorite, but it was pretty good as a rock album given the current status of that genre. It’s not what Ryan does best though. I can’t think of an artist that creates the same type of rustic imagery. That’s what I enjoy the most about his other albums. Gritty as hell, it’s like he transports you to some dusty, desolate place in the southwest when you listen. I hope this album gets back to those types of themes.
October 26, 2014 @ 8:54 am
Looks like Trig is covering him again now that he put the cowboy hat back on. Still say that is the stupidest reason to stop listening to someone.
October 26, 2014 @ 9:35 am
The idea that I started covering Ryan Bingham again simply because he put a cowboy hat back is not only a gross miscalculated and uninformed assumption, it is also incorrect.
https://www.savingcountrymusic.com/40th-annual-willie-nelsons-4th-of-july-picnic-live-blog
“7:53 PM ”“ Can”™t say enough about Ryan Bingham. Not sure if he was just on it today, if the crowd was right, if the big sound system that can gooble some artists up complimented him, but man, he nailed it. Excellent band behind him as well. Two guns up!”
October 27, 2014 @ 11:50 am
https://www.savingcountrymusic.com/ryan-bingham-burns-country-bridge
“f you want to burn bridges, well hell man, don”™t let me stand in your way, in fact I”™ll light the torch myself! But I don”™t want to see a Waylon Jennings album or a pearl snap shirt near your new hatless, Hollywood Heights scene” -taken from the article.
“I”™m seeing a pattern here though.
1. Lost the hat.
2. Moved to LA.
3. Agrees to Country Throwdown.
4. Wins a Oscar.
5. Says he”™s not country. ”
taken from a comment you left on the article. Oddly enough, you stopped covering him then, with no coverage about his last album. He puts on a hat though and boom, you got him covered again.
October 28, 2014 @ 12:11 am
Jonestown,
Don’t ever think that I am not fully aware that every opinion I offer up about music is forever etched in stone for me to answer for until kingdom come, and that this pressure doesn’t hang above my head every single day like an anvil. I stand 100% behind those words I wrote about Ryan Bingham, just as I stand behind the words I wrote about him after watching him live at Willie Nelson’s 4th of July Picnic in 2013, which is the missing piece of the puzzle you’re apparently selectively deciding not to pay attention to, despite me highlighting them for you personally.
But the idea that the alpha and omega of my entire mindset on Ryan Bingham rests on whether he’s wearing a hat or not is the most asinine thing I might have ever heard.
Also, I am not reviewing or promoting Ryan Bingham with this article, I am simply putting some information out there in the public. Regardless of whatever feeling I might have on him, a lot of people like Ryan’s music, and so it is newsworthy that he’s releasing a new album and has a new song. That is all this is.
October 26, 2014 @ 10:13 am
Hell yeah-He is so underrated man. Him and Jamey Johnson are probably tied for my 2 favorite artist in the last 15 years.
October 27, 2014 @ 4:53 am
Broken Hear Tattoos sounds great, hoping the rest of the album follows it’s lead.
October 27, 2014 @ 8:02 pm
Mescalito is obviously great, but I freakin’ LOVE Tomorrowland. I think it’s a phenomenal work of art. Surprised at the lackluster response to it.
October 28, 2014 @ 6:04 am
Early on, Ryan Bingham was a creation of Marc Ford, and his sound was exactly what Marc Ford brought to the Black Crowes in their heyday. The slide guitar parts on Bingham’s first three albums sound like they could have come straight off of a mid-to-late 90’s Black Crowes album. I think Bingham has somewhat broken out of that mold with his most recent releases. I enjoy some of his songs, and I like his voice, but his song writing is pretty simplistic and leaves a lot to be desired.,..
October 28, 2014 @ 4:47 pm
Tomorrowland is an album that took a few spins to fully appreciate but I grew to love it and I look forward to hear what he brings us next.He’s great live as well and I thank him for the effort he puts into coming across the pond to play for us over here.