Ryan Bingham – Roll With the Punches

Ryan Bingham has become a masterful songwriter, singer and actor during his 42 years on Earth. A former bull rider and award-winning musician, Bingham has turned his own trials and adventures into music that speaks directly to American life; its style spanning folk, blues, country and rock ‘n’ roll all make appearances on his repertoire.

Bingham’s nomadic lifestyle fuelled his musical ambitions, leading him to begin performing at local bars and roadhouses throughout the South. While honing his craft in Lubbock Texas and other remote corners, Joe Ely and Patty Griffin helped guide him into signing his first major label deal with Nashville Lost Highway Records; which resulted in 2007 critically-acclaimed Mescalito, an album which introduced us all to an emerging troubadour with a powerful, soulful voice who told stories that resonated across American cultures.

Bingham’s album soon found success and eventually led him to appear in Oscar-winning film Crazy Heart (for which he wrote an Oscar-nominated song). Following that success came 2010’s The Weary Kind release which further established Bingham as one of the major artists in today’s roots revival movement.

Bingham has always pushed himself creatively with each release, never shying away from risks or exploring unfamiliar territory. Watch Out For The Wolf is his most ambitious work yet; its sprawling scope covers Woody Guthrie-style folk songs to Spanish-language balladry to gritty hard rock; each genre showcased herein showcases Bingham’s fearlessness to go outside the confines of genre classifications.

Bingham stands out among his country music peers by never producing music that sounds artificial or produced. His authentic voice shines through in each and every track that he writes or performs.

Bingham is also well known as an actor, appearing in films and television shows ranging from Yellowstone on Paramount Network to films by directors like Tarantino. On Yellowstone he plays Walker, an ex-con who’s recruited to help save the ranch, in which his character lives with Anna Axster; they share three children together.

Bingham has an uncanny talent for taking difficult and complex issues of our time and framing them in ways that are accessible to people of all backgrounds. His storytelling talent allows him to convey immigration ramifications, gun control debates, or race relations issues in America to listeners around the globe – his powerful soaring voice has an international following and his songs reflect its vast expanse as much as any American West landscape would do.