![News Added Oct 25, 2014 When singer-songwriter Ryan Bingham set out to write songs for his fifth album “Fear and Saturday Night,” he retreated to the mountains of California in an airstream and cut himself off from the modern world. One of the first songs he wrote was “Broken Heart Tattoos,” a tune that came […]](https://hasitleaked.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/ryan-bingham-fear-and-saturday-night.jpg "Ryan Bingham : Fear And Saturday Night")
When singer-songwriter Ryan Bingham set out to write songs for his fifth album “Fear and Saturday Night,” he retreated to the mountains of California in an airstream and cut himself off from the modern world. One of the first songs he wrote was “Broken Heart Tattoos,” a tune that came out of some rather serious discussions he’d recently had with his wife.
“[We'd been] discussing the possibility of having kids and the feelings that came about through that conservation ended up evolving into that song.” It wound up being indicative of where he’s sees himself at in his songwriting career: refreshed and mature, ready to explore new aspects of his life.
Bingham broke out in 2010, when his song “The Weary Kind” won the Academy Award and Golden Globe for Best Original Song for its appearance in the Jeff Bridges film “Crazy Heart.” But personal trauma, including the death of his parents and dissolution of his longtime band led to what he describes as “angry” on 2012′s “Tomorrowland.”
“On this album I find myself back in a more hopeful place and the songs are more stripped down musically,” he says. “Each album seems to be about whatever I have gone through in my life previous to recording it.”
For the 12 songs that appear on “Fear and Saturday Night,” Bingham recruited a new band and worked with Jim Scott (Wilco, Tom Petty) for production. The album is due out January 20, 2015 on his own label Axster Bingham Records. “I’m really referring to life experiences in [Broken Heart Tattoos],” he says. “Sometimes they’re like scars or tattoos that you have to live with and deal with. You can’t run and hide from them or wash them off. There’s no way to remove them from your soul.”
