★★★★★
Built around a voice as raw and unpolished as the dusty New Mexico landscape where he was raised, Ryan Bingham's sound is a grimy take on country rock, fueled by nicotine and a troubadour's restlessness. When Bingham growls that he was born a bad man's son (on Roadhouse Sun's hard-driving opener "Day is Done") it's evident that at least a little bit of daddy's attitude was handed down...
- www.americansongwriter.com
2013-04-25
★★★★★
We've gotta send out a long-distance high five to Ryan Bingham from all of us out here in listener-land -- he got invited to the big dance and opted instead for a lonely drive down a long dark road and our stereos will all be better for it. The L.A.-based, Texas-born singer-songwriter could have gone in a very, very different direction as his follow up to "The Weary Kind," the Oscar-winning tune from 2009?s country music parable Crazy Heart...
- www.americansongwriter.com
2013-04-25
★★★★★
The churning, slide-lacerated "Sunshine" is the sort of tug and flow that is clumsy in its frankness, yet so wide-open in its guilelessness that you stand awestruck-marveling at how some people can stand honest and naked, even in the desolation. But that is the tone struck by the raw-voiced Bingham and producer Marc Ford, late of the Black Crowes-another band long on aggressive atmospherics...
- www.americansongwriter.com
2013-04-25
★★★★★
Axster Bingham "Risk-taking" is the sort of boilerplate PR language that gets slapped onto acts positioned as an alternative to mainstream fare. But it would actually be justified in the case of Ryan Bingham's latest; he took Tomorrowland as far away as he could possibly get from the leathery troubadour fare that won him acclaim (even an Oscar). The countrified textures are mostly confined to the final few tracks...
- www.relix.com
2012-12-19
★★★★★
Ryan Bingham is stepping up and stepping out on his fourth album, ditching his former label Lost Highway and his former band The Dead Horses for a truly independent production. But the results crackle with energy as Bingham delivers a platter that may be his best yet. Bingham's gritty vocals are as cathartic as ever and these songs are sparkling with rocking riffs and big chords...
- www.popmatters.com
2012-10-25
★★★★★
Ryan Bingham's career received quite the jolt of electricity back in 2010, when his song "The Weary Kind" was suddenly echoing from the sound systems of every movie theater in the country. It was a lucky strike, the kind of breakthrough any wandering troubadour would kill for, but for those of us sitting in those darkened theaters, it wasn't hard to see why Bingham had won the lottery...
- absolutepunk.net
2012-09-20
★★★★★
The United States spent the majority of the 1980's in Recession. Its a fact not frequently remembered. Our image of the 1980's are filled with brightly colored sitcoms about happy orphans who got adopted by wealthy couples and pop singers clad in diamonds and gold lame. There were very few artists documenting the lives of the working class, people like Merle Haggard, John Conlee, John Mellencamp and Bruce Springsteen...
- roughstock.com
2010-12-07
★★★★★
After achieving critical acclaim for the dark stories of a Southwest drifter on his major label debut, Bingham's second set on Lost Highway Records has the West Texas singer-songwriter heading in a different direction both lyrically and musically. Bingham's got a lot on his mind after a couple years on the road, and Roadhouse Sun is more a collection of quick thoughts and even quicker glances at American life than a compelling narrative...
- roughstock.com
2010-12-07
★★★★★
Looser and wilder than last year's Mescalito, Roadhouse Sun - Ryan Bingham's second release on Lost Highway - kicks in and doesn't relent throughout. It's an album written after some time on the road. Described as ''unblinkingly personal and unapologetically political'', it straddles both camps with a degree of élan. After Mescalito garnered widespread praise, Bingham returned to the studio with Black Crowes producer Marc Ford for another instalment of organic heavy western...
- www.bbc.co.uk
2010-10-07
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