Various Artists Ghost Brothers of Darkland County (Hear/Concord) Rating: 3 out of 5 stars Did someone say “all-star cast?” How about this play written by Stephen King with John Mellencamp handling the songwriting and T Bone Burnett as the music director? Add singers that include Americana frontrunners Dave and Phil Alvin, Neko Case, Sheryl Crow, [...]

Bob Dylan announced over the weekend that he’ll  join with indie rockers Wilco and My Morning Jacket  this summer to offer a concert experience dubbed Americanarama. 26 dates have been announced, beginning June 26 at the Cruzan Amphitheatre in West Palm Beach, Florida and ending on August 4 at the Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, [...]

Here’s one of our favorite artists, Ryan Bingham, performing a sparse and gritty version of Tommorowland’s ” Too Deep To Fill” as part of the Guitar Center’s awesome “At: Guitar Center with Nic Harcourt” podcast series. Listen to the full session, recorded from inside the West L.A. Guitar Center Platinum Room here, and check out [...]

(Kenny Chesney on the Brothers of the Sun Tour) Three of country music’s primetime players have announced upcoming tours for 2013. Tim McGraw, Kenny Chesney, and Blake Shelton will all hit the road this year. Chesney has a new album in the works. The album, still untitled, is set for release on April 30 via [...]

For his fourth studio album, Tomorrowland, Ryan Bingham made some changes. He put his band, The Dead Horses, out to pasture, ditched his record label, and decided to try his hand at co-producing the record. American Songwriter caught up with the Grammy-award winning singer-songwriter to talk about Tomorrowland, going indie, country music movies and more. [...]

Check out the lyric video for the hard rocking “Heart of Rhythm,” off Ryan Bingham’s fourth studio album Tommorowland, which drops September 18th on his own label, Axster Bingham Records. Bingham cut the record, the followup to 2010′s Junky Star, without his longtime band The Dead Horses. “On this record I had a lot more [...]

We were somewhere around Michigan Ave on the edge of the Google Stage when the rain began to take hold. I remember saying something like, “I feel raindrops; maybe you should get out the ponchos…” And suddenly there was torrential weather all around us and Grant Park was full of 90,000 waterlogged music fans, some [...]

A brief recap of the fevered dream that is Bonnaroo.

Bingham performs a track off the album Mescalito.

Bingham talks about his development as an artist, the inspiration behind the “The Weary Kind,” and why the state of Texas produces a special kind of songwriter.

Ryan Bingham has lived an itinerant life. Before becoming a professional musician, Bingham spent several years on the bull-riding circuit, a job that he says involves as much “bullshit” as the music biz. Today, the Texas-reared songwriter is best known for penning “The Weary Kind,” the Academy Award-winning song for the 2009 film Crazy Heart. [...]

The Year Of The Buffalo “Turn it up! Turn it up!” That’s what fans chanted at the beginning of Buffalo Springfield’s set. The sound issues were eventually addressed, and the legendary ’60s band was off to the races, turning a set that was alternately mellow and invigorating. When Stills and Young made their guitars talk [...]