Ryan Bingham<\/a><\/strong> is perpetually one of of the most underrated acts in country music.<\/p>\nA New Mexico-born, Texas-raised cowboy at heart, Bingham 2007 debut,\u00a0Mescalito,\u00a0<\/em>has become a cult favorite among loyal country fans, but 2009 was his real breakout year. Bingham worked with Grammy-winning producer, T Bone Burnett, on the soundtrack for a Jeff Bridges movie, Crazy Heart<\/em>, which delivered us the film\u2019s award-winning theme song, \u201cThe Weary Kind.\u201d The song earned Bingham an Academy Award, Golden Globe Award, and Critics\u2019 Choice Award for \u201cBest Song\u201d in 2010, as well as a Grammy Award for \u201cBest Song Written for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media\u201d in 2011\u2026 quite the roundup of critical acclaim.<\/p>\nOf course, the casual country fan would now know him as Walker on the popular Taylor Sheridan show\u00a0Yellowstone.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\nBut for the first time in 7 years, Bingham is back with a brand new full-length, studio album, They Call Us The Lucky Ones<\/em>, which will be out on May 15th. His most recent project, 2023\u2019s Watch Out for the Wolf, <\/em>was a 7-song creative departure from his usual sound. Not a concept record per se, but the album was an unplanned project that was birthed out of a mushroom trip in a cabin in the Montana wilderness, and then written and recorded right there.<\/p>\nBingham married his Yellowstone<\/em> co-star Hassie Harrison in October of 2023, and he explained that this was \u201cthe most fun\u201d he\u2019s ever had making an album, and I have to imagine that has an awful lot to do with how happy he is in his personal life:<\/p>\n\u201cThis album was probably the most fun I\u2019ve had making a record. I\u2019ve always loved records that feel loose and live and gritty with a bit of soul, where the imperfections from the moment are left in. <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\nWorking with musicians as talented as The Texas Gentlemen really let us lean into that in a way I hadn\u2019t 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. <\/strong><\/em>It finally felt like I was capturing these songs the way I always heard them in my head. We can\u2019t wait to get out on the road and share them with fans.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\nThis week, Bingham released another song from the album titled, \u201cBlue Skies.\u201d<\/p>\n
The new music video features footage from the Jeff Nichols-directed short film, Love Letter to Texas<\/em>, which debuted at SXSW this year. The film stars Bingham alongside talented actor Michael Shannon, and Bingham\u2019s wife and Yellowstone <\/em>co-star, Hassie Harrison, with narration from Sissy Spacek.<\/p>\nCheck it out:<\/p>\n