George Ryan Bingham (born March 31, 1981) is an American alt-country[1] singer from Hobbs, New Mexico. He has an older sister, Maren Bingham.
Lone Star Music financed his first album "Dead Horses" in 2006. After its success, Bingham was signed to Lost Highway Records. He then made his major label debut with "Mescalito" on October 2, 2007, which was produced by former Black Crowes guitarist Marc Ford. The album received mainly positive reviews. While some critics have claimed Bingham's songwriting is clichéd[1], others laud his talents. Texas Music Magazine has opined that "Bingham talks and sings with a whiskey-and-cigarette throat that screams hard living. Hard in a way that can make a 25-year-old sound like a 50-year-old Tom Waits.
Bingham's songwriting depths are not mere fabrications. His creative expressions are likely derived partially from a knockabout life on the bull-riding rodeo circuit for several years (he began bullriding in his late teens). A life of semi-permanence was already the norm to a young man who grew up in a fractured family that moved around often, from Hobbs, NM to Spring, TX and Stephenville, TX and a multitude of other dusty small towns in the southwest
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