Roadhouse Sun

Ryan Bingham

Product Details

• Vinyl (June 2, 2009)
• Original Release Date: June 2, 2009
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Lost Highway
• ASIN: B001YXXSDI
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (59 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #102,755 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Track Listings

1. Day Is Done

2. Dylan's Hard Rain

3. Tell My Mother I Miss Her So

4. Country Roads

5. Bluebird

6. Snake Eyes

7. Endless Ways

8. Change Is

9. Rollin Highway Blues

10. Hey Hey Hurray

11. Roadhouse Blues

12. Wishing Well

Editorial Reviews

From the Artist

"With all that's happened politically and economically in the last couple of years, I felt like there was a lot to say," explains the 28-year-old singer-songwriter. "As a young person, I felt like it was time to get involved, to write something that wasn't just about Saturday nights in bars. Things that were happening back then are still happening. Things keep repeating themselves."

"I think when I was younger, I had more of a grudge against society," he offers. "I grew up poor and I grew up angry about it. But at some point, you realize you can't just be pissed off - you have to try to do something positive, and this record is my way of doing that." --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.

Product Description

Ryan Bingham has spent most of his life on the road, first on the rough-and-tumble rodeo circuit, then moving from town to town on the equally volatile roadhouse musical circuit. Those travels have given him plenty of material to draw from - and plenty of reason to stop for a moment to dig in his heels and take a stand.

That's exactly what the Texas-bred troubadour does on his second Lost Highway album, Road House Sun, a hardscrabble collection that's at once unblinkingly personal and unapologetically political - the latter a new and bracingly vivid addition to Bingham's palette.

Produced, like its predecessor, by one-time Black Crowes guitarist Marc Ford, Road House Sun manages to capture a feel that's rootsy without being retro. That has a lot to do with the singer's preternaturally wizened voice - which Bingham laughingly attributes to "Too many nights in the whiskey house" - not to mention Ford's approach behind the board," which Bingham describes as "really old school. Those guitar tones and basslines, Marc knew how to get those down. He wanted to do it the way they used to do it." --This text refers to the Audio CD edition.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Unreal, June 2, 2009

By	Alex Fritsch - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: Roadhouse Sun (Audio CD)

Bingham does it again. One of a kind music that you just have to hear over and over and over again. A great musician and even a better troubadour.

7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great CD, June 13, 2009

By	Mike - See all my reviews

This review is from: Roadhouse Sun (Amazon MP3 Exclusive Version) (MP3 Download)

I bought the first album haveing heard of Ryan by chance and really enjoyed it. I bought this second album as a result and was prepared to be a little disappointed but I like this as much as the first and it deserves to sell a lot so go out and buy it.
It has the same qualities of good songs and excellent playing as the first but is enough different in style to be a worthwhile progression.

Both CDs are the sort you find yourself listening to again and again and I can say that about very few CDs that I have bought.

7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Just Damn Good Music., June 9, 2009

By	Brian Brady (Castro Valley, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Roadhouse Sun (Audio CD)

Great music that defies classification. I had 'Roadhouse Sun' in the CD player in the car as I drove my friend to work, and he sat quietly for 15 or 20 minutes, a first for as long as I've known him, and we just rocked out to this great music.
If I had to label it I would say, West Texas Alt Country Rock in the great tradition of Joe Ely or Springsteen's Nebraska. He was a little late for work because he wanted to hear more music, but I bought him a copy of his own and I'll give it to him next time I give him a ride to work.