Acclaimed US artist Ryan Bingham releases his new album ‘FEAR AND SATURDAY NIGHT’ on February 6, 2015 through Lost Highway Australia.
Bingham received critical recognition along with an Academy Award, Golden Globe and a Grammy in 2010 for the song ‘The Weary Kind’, which became the centrepiece of the 2010 film Crazy Heart starring Jeff Bridges. He was honoured by the Americana Music Association, claiming the mantle for Americana Song of the Year and named Artist of the Year in 2010.
‘Fear And Saturday Night’, produced/engineered by Jim Scott (Wilco, Grace Potter & The Nocturnals), was written by Bingham while isolated in the mountains of California. The 12 original songs feature a new backing band of Shawn Davis (Beck, Juanes) on bass, Daniel Sproul (Rose Hill Drive) on lead guitar, and Nate Barnes (Rose Hill Drive) on drums.
Secluded in an airstream trailer without distractions in the form of people, cell phones, even electricity, Bingham was alone with his thoughts and guitar, sitting still for the first time after a childhood spent moving around the Southwest and years touring the country, with performances everywhere from Fallon and Letterman to Good Morning America and The View. “It felt like I lived out of a cardboard box growing up until I was old enough to buy my own suitcase,” he says. “I was just running from everything.”
Facing down his past, including the deaths of his mother to alcohol and his father to suicide, resulted in the triumphant ‘Fear And Saturday Night’, which follows three albums with Bingham's band The Dead Horses and 2012 solo LP, ‘Tomorrowland’ that reached the Top 10 of the American Billboard Indie and Country charts. The power and ferocity of ‘Tomorrowland’ was a blood-letting for Bingham, but ‘Fear And Saturday Night’ is the point of catharsis reached, jubilantly.
Recently in the country for a run of national dates along with a headline performance at Americana festival Out On The Weekend, Bingham left a marked impression on his live audiences. Bingham is hoping to return to Australia and New Zealand next year in support of ‘Fear And Saturday Night’.