Heavyweight LP in gatefold jacket

Album download plus bonus track included

Recorded mostly live with a brand-new backing band Fear and Saturday Night shows singer-songwriter Ryan Bingham facing down his past with a poetic grace throughout. The lead single "Radio" is about coping with a darkness that does not want to let go, searching for a safe place to make sense of your life and the strength to stay on the right track through it all. Some of the most affecting moments on the album are in the harmonica-driven wistful waltz "Broken Heart Tattoos," a song written to an unborn child, and in the title track, "Fear and Saturday Night."

Those hard-learned lessons, through both good times and bad, helped make Bingham the man he is today. Fear and Saturday Night is the most authentic, personal, and deeply moving portrait of that man we have heard yet. Bingham grew up poor in West Texas after his family moved there from New Mexico. He was riding bulls to earn a living by the age of 17, having already left home to fend for himself. His mother was an alcoholic; his father later committed suicide.

But instead of growing angry and silent, Bingham channeled his rage, sorrow and keen-to-the-point-of-painful observations into his music.

For years, he slung his songs in weather-beaten honky-tonks around the Southwest. Then, in 2009, he caught his break when he penned "The Weary Kind," the theme song for the Jeff Bridges film "Crazy Heart." The track earned him both an Oscar and a Grammy, and vaulted him from a scruffy, boot-stomping kid to an internationally celebrated artist.

Track Listing
1. Nobody Knows My Trouble
2. Broken Heart Tattoos
3. Top Shelf Drug
4. Island In The Sky
5. Adventures of You and Me
6. Fear and Saturday Night
7. My Diamond Is Too Rough
8. Radio
9. Snow Falls in June
10. Darlin
11. Hands of Time
12. Gun Fightin Man