Ryan Bingham

This article is about the musician Ryan Bingham. For the film role of the same name, see Up in the Air

Ryan Bingham (2009)

Ryan Bingham (born March 31, 1981 in Hobbs , New Mexico , USA ) is an American country singer-songwriter, actor and Oscar winner for his song The Weary Kind .

life and career

Bingham was born in Hobbs , New Mexico , in 1981, the son of a drill worker. Due to multiple moves and severe neglect on the part of his parents, Bingham dropped out of school at the age of 17, left his family and lived in Texas and Mexico , where he earned his living mainly as a cowboy at rodeo shows . Bingham, who was often homeless and therefore often slept in his truck and with friends, soon got to know mariachi musicians through his neighbors at the time, from whom he learned to play the guitar. He also got into music through his uncle's jukebox , where he mainly listened to Bob Dylan , Bob Wills and the Marshall Tucker Band .

In addition to the weekly appearance in a nearby bar in Stephenville , he began with the band The Dead Horses to record no-budget CDs, to which the major label Lost Highway noticed and soon made him the offer for a debut album. After the published 2007 Mescalito was a great success with the critics, Bingham was working on his second album Roadhouse Sun and took with T-Bone Burnett , the song The Weary Kind to the film Crazy Heart on which he both the Oscar for best song , as also received the corresponding Golden Globe and Grammy Awards . He also played the supporting role of the accompanist Tony in the film and also composed I Don't Know and Gone, Gone, Gone for the soundtrack . The following year he released his third LP Junky Star , which included The Weary Kind as a bonus track and is still his most commercially successful today.

In mid-2012 he separated from the band and released his fourth official album Tomorrowland under the independent label Axster / Bingham Records, founded with his wife Anna Axster . In June 2013, the download single Until I'm One with You followed , which Bingham wrote for the series The Bridge - America of the US broadcaster FX and which is the title song. Ryan Bingham currently lives in Los Angeles , California .

The Dead Horses

Ryan Bingham performing live in Jacksonville (2010)

From 2005 to Junky Star (2010), Bingham had a regular backing band with him that he called "The Dead Horses" . She performed with him at concerts and can be heard on his first three official and no-budget albums. It consisted of the following members:

• Corby Schaub: guitar and mandolin
• Elijah Ford: Bass
• Matthew Smith: drums

Discography

→ Main article : Ryan Bingham / Discography

Studio albums

year	Title music label	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, music label , placements, weeks, awards, notes)		Remarks
		US	Country
2007	Mescalito Lost Highway	-	-	First published: October 2nd, 2007 Data carriers: CD , LP
2009	Roadhouse Sun Lost Highway	US65 (1 week) US	Country17 (38 weeks) Country	First published: June 2nd, 2009 Data carriers: CD, LP
2010	Junky Star Lost Highway	US19 (4 weeks) US	Country2 (29 weeks) Country	First published: August 31, 2010 Data carriers: CD, LP
2012	Tomorrowland Axster / Bingham Records	US36 (2 weeks) US	Country7 (10 weeks) Country	First published: September 18, 2012 Data carriers: CD, LP
2015	Fear and Saturday Night Axster / Bingham Records	US47 (1 week) US	-	First published: January 20, 2015 Data carriers: CD, LP
2019	American Love Song Axster / Bingham Records	US124 (1 week) US	Country12 (1 week) Country	First published: February 15, 2019 Data carriers: CD, LP

Filmography

• 2009: Crazy Heart
• 2014: Love Me Like You Do (Jackie & Ryan)
• 2015: A Country Called Home
• 2017: Enemies - Hostiles

Web links

Commons : Ryan Bingham  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

• Official website of Ryan Bingham
• Ryan Bingham on the website by Lost Highway Records (English)
• Concert review of Ryan Bingham & The Dead Horses in Frannz, Berlin , HP Daniels in Der Tagesspiegel from June 19, 2011, accessed February 11, 2013
• Ryan Bingham on countrymusicnews.de , accessed June 10, 2012.
• Ryan Bingham on universal-music.de , accessed on June 10, 2012.
• US chart placements of the albums , accessed on June 18, 2012.
• Crazy Heart on imdb.de , accessed on June 18, 2012.

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1. ↑ Biography on music.aol.com ( Memento of the original from March 17, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (English). Retrieved June 10, 2012. 
2. ↑ Article on latimes.com (English). Retrieved January 2, 2013.
3. ↑ Article on country.de , accessed on June 10, 2012.
4. ↑ Article about the Oscar win on spinner.com ( memento of November 24, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (English). Retrieved December 1, 2012.
5. ↑ Biography on allmusic.com (English). Retrieved June 10, 2012.
6. ↑ Junky Star on countrymusicnews.de , accessed on June 18, 2012.
7. ↑ Article on billboard.com (English). Retrieved December 1, 2012.
8. ↑ Article about Until I'm One with You on billboard.com . Retrieved August 15, 2013.
9. ↑ Article on klub-kultur.de Accessed on June 11, 2012.
10. ↑ Chart sources: US