Ryan Bingham On World Cafe — npr.org

Ryan Bingham. Rich McKie/WXPN hide caption A rough-voiced rodeo veteran and country songwriter, Ryan Bingham just returned with a direct and personal new album titled Fear And Saturday Night. Bingham burst on the scene with the well-received Mescalito in 2007, but really became known when a song of his from the film Crazy Heart won a Golden Globe and an Oscar in 2009. But then life intervened: His alcoholic mother died, his father committed suicide, and Bingham didn't deal with the grief until he had to.

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