Thu
May
22
![Ryan Bingham was a bull-rider on the rodeo circuit, not even 20 years old yet, when he wrote a world-weary song about death, being a West Texas desperado and praying for change. “I was still rodeoing, living in this trailer house with a couple of roommates, sitting in the living room one afternoon and kind of just reflecting on my life a little bit and the song came out,” said Bingham, now 26, calling from his home in Topanga, Calif., adding that he was just as surprised as anyone that “Southside of Heaven,” one of the standout tracks from last year’s underappreciated “Mescalito” (Lost Highway) album, turned out as well as it did.
[Also ran in the Miami Herald, Denver Post, Albany Times-Union]](http://13.media.tumblr.com/NLbrVHkDv9h4jt1cZxs7hyc9_500.jpg)
Ryan Bingham was a bull-rider on the rodeo circuit, not even 20 years old yet, when he wrote a world-weary song about death, being a West Texas desperado and praying for change.
“I was still rodeoing, living in this trailer house with a couple of roommates, sitting in the living room one afternoon and kind of just reflecting on my life a little bit and the song came out,” said Bingham, now 26, calling from his home in Topanga, Calif., adding that he was just as surprised as anyone that “Southside of Heaven,” one of the standout tracks from last year’s underappreciated “Mescalito” (Lost Highway) album, turned out as well as it did.
[Also ran in the Miami Herald, Denver Post, Albany Times-Union]
