I first heard Ryan Bingham on a late-night drive from Dallas to Abilene. There’s a terrific radio station in Dallas called The Ranch (95.5) that plays a lot of traditional country music, mostly Texas based. I’d flown in and found the station and it kept me country along that beautiful road of rolling hills when a song came on that I liked so much I pulled out my i-phone and recorded enough of it I could research and find out who sang it. And later I did that, and discovered it was Ryan Bingham. The song was Dylan’s Hard Rain. Bingham was born in New Mexico and dropped out of school at 17. He recorded his first record in 2006 to much critical and fan appreciation, and recently won an Academy Award for best original song for his song The Weary Kind. Here he is singing that song. I hope you like Ryan as much as I do. Good Sunday morning, to you.
