New York, NY (Top40 Charts/ Shore Fire Media) Ryan Bingham will release his most personal and introspective record yet with 'Fear and Saturday Night' (Axster Bingham Records distributed by Thirty Tigers/RED), out January 20, 2015. The New Mexico native turned
Texas rodeo rider turned Oscar-Grammy-Golden
Globe Award winning songwriter has evolved from penning character-driven ballads and roadhouse blasters hailed by Vanity Fair as "gritty, cinematic [and] addictive" to crafting a deeply moving portrait of his own life. On Bingham's fifth studio album, songs like "
Radio" evoke the need to find safety amidst encroaching darkness and "Broken
Heart Tattoos" imagines what kind of parent he could become. Listen to "Broken
Heart Tattoos," called "refreshed and mature" by The Wall Street Journal: https://shorefi.re/12iFEaA
The album was produced/engineered by Jim Scott (Wilco,
Grace Potter & The Nocturnals) and features a brand 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. The 12 original songs on 'Fear and Saturday Night' were written by Bingham while isolated in the mountains of California. 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, 'Tommorrowland' that reached the Top 10 of the Billboard Indie and Country charts and the Top 20 of the Rock chart. The power and ferocity of 'Tomorrowland' was a blood-letting for Bingham, but 'Fear and Saturday Night' is the point of catharsis reached, jubilantly.
Bingham will embark on a nearly sold-out solo tour throughout November to preview the new songs. Tour dates below.
'Fear and Saturday Night' tracklist:
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
Ryan Bingham US Solo Tour Dates:
Nov 11 - Austin, TX - Holy Mountain*
Nov 12 - St. Paul, MN - Turf Club
Nov 14 - Chicago, IL - City Winery Chicago*
Nov 15 - Indianapolis, IN - The Hi-Fi*
Nov 16 - Nashville, TN - City Winery Nashville*
Nov 18 - Ann Arbor, MI - The Ark
Nov 19 - Chicago, IL - I'll Take You There: Celebrating 75 Years of Mavis Staples
Nov 21 - Boston, MA - Cafe 939*
Nov 22 - Brooklyn, NY - Rough Trade*
Nov 24 - Washington, DC - The Hamilton
Nov 25 - Philadelphia, PA - World Cafe Live
Nov 26 - New York, NY - City Winery New York*
Nov 28 - Portland, OR - Star Theater
Nov 29 - Seattle, WA - Columbia City Theater*
Dec 01 - San Francisco, CA - The Chapel*
Dec 03 - Mill Valley, CA - Sweetwater
Music Hall
Dec 04 - Los Angeles, CA - Masonic Lodge @ Hollywood Forever*
*sold out
