Track Listing

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

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #5703 in Music
• Released on: 2009-06-02
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .14 pounds

Album 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."

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."