Ryan Bingham was born in Hobbs, NM, 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 country star, he ranged from Woody Guthrie-style folk songs and Spanish-language balladry to gritty hard rock. It’s all-American music. 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 parents.
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.
RYAN BINGHAM
WITH THE TEXAS GENTLEMEN
JAMESTOWN REVIVAL
DRAYTON FARLEY
Red Rocks Amphitheatre
18300 W Alameda Pkwy, Morrison, CO 80401
Tuesday, June 25, 2024
AEG Presents is thrilled to announce RYAN BINGHAM with THE TEXAS GENTLEMEN, Jamestown Revival and Drayton Farley live at Red Rocks Amphitheatre on Tuesday, June 25, 2024. Doors 6pm || Show 7pm.
