Ryan Bingham’s first full-length album in over 7 years is out now. ‘They Call Us The Lucky Ones,’ recorded with The Texas Gentlemen, is available via The Bingham Recording Co./Thirty Tigers, and it arrives as one of the most anticipated releases in Bingham’s catalog. Listen here.
The 10-track album was tracked mostly live with minimal overdubs, built around the loose, gritty, soulful energy Bingham has always chased in the studio. “This album was probably the most fun I’ve had making a record,” he says. “Working with musicians as talented as The Texas Gentlemen really let us lean into that in a way I hadn’t experienced before. It finally felt like I was capturing these songs the way I always heard them in my head.”
The record includes previous releases “The Lucky Ones” and “Americana,” alongside new single “Ballad of The Texas Gentlemen,” which traces how Bingham found himself part of a band again without planning it. “After years of being out on my own, I realized somewhere along the way I was part of a band again without really planning it,” he says. “Just being back out on the road with people you trust and remembering why you fell in love with playing music in the first place.”
In addition to Bingham and The Texas Gentlemen, Ryan Ake on guitars, Daniel Creamer on piano and organ, Paul Grass on drums and percussion, and Scott Lee on bass, the album also features Richard Bowden on fiddle and mandolin and Cody Huggins on electric guitar, acoustic guitar, and pedal steel.
The album is available on vinyl in multiple exclusive variants including Classic Black, Indie Retail “Electric Smoke,” Barnes & Noble “Blue Sky,” Amazon “Vintage Bone,” and webstore-exclusive “Roadside Rust,” plus CD and cassette.
Bingham and The Texas Gentlemen are currently on the Still Gettin’ Away With It Tour, with upcoming stops at Irving Plaza in New York, Roadrunner in Boston, The Fillmore in Philadelphia, Lincoln Theatre in Washington D.C., and Stage AE in Pittsburgh, among others.
‘They Call Us The Lucky Ones’ Track Listing:
The Lucky Ones
Let The Big Dog Eat
I Got A Feelin’
Twist The Knife
Americana
Cocaine Charlie
Blue Skies
Relevance
“Ballad of The Texas Gentlemen”
I’m A Goin’ Nowhere