Ryan Bingham is all of 30 years old and has four albums under his belt, as well as an Academy Award (along with T-Bone Burnett, I believe) for The Weary Kind from the film Crazy Heart (Ryan also appears in the movie early on as the guitarist playing with Bad Blake in, as I recall, a bowling alley). At any rate, he is currently touring America, and then headed to Europe, and he does a very nice live show I have to say, but I would add this caveat - I have only seen him once, and the show I saw was a little more on the rock and blues side as opposed to, let's say, the "roots" side, or the gentle quiet found here. I would see him again, but would hope for a little more balance. (Also: in an album review a couple of years ago, Rolling Stone referred to him as "sounding like Steve Earle's grandfather". Not sure if I agree with that, but I do think it's a funny line.)
Lately Ryan has been recording acoustic covers and posting them via Twitter; last week he recorded To Live Is To Fly, and since I'd done Townes' original yesterday, I thought I'd add this one today...
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