They Call Us The Lucky Ones Ryan Bingham

• 1 The Lucky Ones 04:53
• 2 Let the Big Dog Eat 03:31
• 3 I Got a Feelin' 05:00
• 4 Twist the Knife 04:08
• 5 Americana 03:34
• 6 Cocaine Charlie 06:43
• 7 Blue Skies 03:18
• 8 Relevance 03:03
• 9 Ballad of The Texas Gentlemen 03:29
• 10 I'm a Goin' Nowhere 03:54
• Total Runtime 41:33

Info for They Call Us The Lucky Ones

Acclaimed Oscar and Grammy-Winning Musician Ryan Bingam releases ‘They Call Us The Lucky Ones’, the highly anticipated new album out May 15.

His first full-length project in over seven years, ‘They Call Us The Lucky Ones’ further cements Bingham as one of the most authentic and compelling voices in American music. Across the album’s 10 tracks, including previous releases “The Lucky Ones” and “Americana,” Bingham reflects on the highs and lows of an artist’s life on the road and his newfound sense of joy and hope, all framed by the unique genre-defying sound he and The Texas Gentlemen create together.

“This album was probably the most fun I’ve had making a record,” Bingham reflects. “I’ve always loved records that feel loose and live and gritty with a bit of soul, where the imperfections from the moment are left in. Working with musicians as talented as The Texas Gentlemen really let us lean into that in a way I hadn’t experienced before. There was an unspoken understanding between us about what each song needed, so we tracked most of it live with minimal overdubs, just playing and letting the feel lead. It finally felt like I was capturing these songs the way I always heard them in my head. We can’t wait to get out on the road and share them with fans.”

Bingham is a Grammy, Oscar, Golden Globe, and Critics’ Choice Award-winning singer-songwriter and actor whose raw, world-weary voice and evocative storytelling have made him one of the most distinctive artists of his generation. From his early years as a drifter and bull rider to penning “The Weary Kind” for the film Crazy Heart, Bingham has built a career defined by authenticity and artistic independence. His music—spanning folk, blues, country, and rock—reflects a life fully lived, blending grit, vulnerability, and resilience in equal measure.

Across six studio albums, two live records, and his 2023 self-produced EP Watch Out For The Wolf, Bingham has remained committed to unfiltered, genre-defying storytelling, most recently captured in his live album Live at Red Rocks. In addition to his acclaimed music career, he starred as fan-favorite “Walker” on Paramount’s record-breaking series Yellowstone. Beyond the stage and screen, Bingham has launched his own record label, founded the Fort Worth-based festival and rodeo, The Great Western, and introduced Bingham Spirits, beginning with Bingham’s Bourbon in 2024.

Ryan Bingham,guitar, vocals
Ryan Ake, guitars
Daniel Creamer, piano, organ
Paul Grass, drums, percussion
Scott Lee, bass
Richard Bowden, fiddle, mandolin
Cody Huggins, electric guitar, acoustic guitar, pedal steel

Ryan Bingham
Ryan's music defies classification with folk, blues, country and rock ‘n roll all being part of the recipe. It's authentic, powerful, and the songs are rooted in real life - in survival and sacrifice and, yes, sometimes just having a damn good time. Nobody making music today has a voice like Bingham’s, one that has the worn and weary character of an old fighter more than twice his age but the power of a young man. It’s an intoxicating mixture that reaches new levels on his most recent album American Love Song.

Yes, Ryan Bingham grew up in the South. Texas, mostly. But there wasn’t much in the way of consistency to his upbringing, other than his family’s chronic existence on the wrong side of the tracks. He was born in the small city of Hobbs, New Mexico, hard up against the Texas Panhandle. He grew up in the west Texas oil fields, then spent time as a teenage rodeo cowboy in towns all across the state. Along the way, he absorbed the Cajun culture of western Louisiana, the hardcore hip-hop favored by his Houston friends, and the border songs of the Mexican immigrants. Until he moved to California in 2007, he never lived in any one place for more than two years. It’s this spirit of having done plenty of living early on, that has informed the singer- songwriters world-weary and jagged, weather-beaten vocals.

From the beginning of his recording career, with “Mescalito,” Bingham has defied easy classification. As a rising 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 also coping with the tragic deaths of his parents.

The losses put Bingham in a dark tunnel, and it took a while to crawl his way out. With 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”, and 2016’s “Ryan Bingham Live”), takes all his influences – both musical and experiential – and unites them in Ryan Bingham’s best, most fully realized record to date.

Bingham is a singer-songwriter, not a product, and his music movingly shows how the overarching theme of the personal and communal American existence can encompass triumph and tragedy from one moment to the next.

Throughout 2020 Bingham spent a lot of time re-connecting with his fans through his daily #StayHome Cantina Sessions. He also completed filming season 4 of the TV series Yellowstone, and started writing music for a new album. Bingham will head back to the studio to record in 2022.

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