Ryan Bingham - American Love Song album flac

Great rocking record. I don’t know what to say about the reviewer below here. I guess he doesn’t like it. Vinyl edition sounds just fine. I wish Ryan success with this album. I don’t see the sell out angle here. Go Ryan...

Agreed 100%. Each album has been different than the last and this one is no different. Nothing will ever beat Mescalito, but I can listen to this start to finish and love every second.

While I sincerely support the notion that artists should and are entitled to progress and change, and having never been one of those who’s simply wished for more of the same, I’ve gotta say, there’s little I recognize on American Love Song from Ryan Bingham.Ryan’s gotten popular, Ryan’s selling out shows, and on American Love Song, his first album in close to four years, the man has gotten very loud and very edgy. Along with that edginess comes a new visual persona, donned in more hipster chic clothing, less reminiscent of Texas or New Mexico and more in line with Nashville. Yes, at the time of this writing, the album’s just out, still fresh from the presses, where critics are falling all over each other, arms raised to the sky heaping praises on this release of more lean, less bluesy, less alternative countrified numbers that don’t go down easy, demand your attention, where by the end of the album, there’s not a single song spinning in the back of your head that you can remember or want to return to. Yes, Ryan’s road weary voice is still there, that immediately recognizable character he’s developed is still standing right in front of you, though it’s me who’s rather weary after hearing this conflicting record. I’ve been listening to people all day say things such as, “I’ve been a huge fan of Bingham’s since Tomorrowland back in 2012 …”, but hey, Ryan was around for a long time prior to that, and this is a very complicated album, leaving me excited about a new outing, yet put off by all the glam he’s sporting. Others go on saying “Bingham fans will appreciate American Love Song. While on the surface, there might be something slightly mellower about it. Certainly there are some poppy melodies and a decent amount of piano at its core, with the album being a continuation of his celebration of American music.” And see, that’s just not true, the whole notion of music critics is disingenuous when they say nothing, don’t know what their talking about, while merely supporting Bingham in order to help sell some records that no one’s gonna be happy with, records that no one’s gonna play after the first spin, feeling let down, sidestepped and exhausted. And finally there are those who infer that the album is sonically different, not by saying it out loud, but with statements such as, “It can take the ear a few moments to adjust to what Bingham’s about at the moment.” Come on, really, can’t any one but me stand up and say that this is not a very good or very comfortable album?You know, there are those who are gonna love this record, as it’s far more in line with the neo-alternative country music that’s out there, where the genre’s been redefined, and Bingham is dead set on gaining a place on that train. Though for those of us who've been following him for years, there’s almost nothing here, suggesting that the man has forgotten his roots, left behind those who helped push him and his remarkable voice to the top. Both personal and cultural influences make up this recording, one produced by the guitarist Charlie Sexton, where Sexton can be heard playing both guitars and piano. The album is supported by a hand picked group of really fine Austin musicians who must have felt as bewildered playing this music as those in Nashville did so many years ago when Dylan’s Blonde On Blonde breathed new life into the hazed 60’s … though I can assure you, American Love Song will not do that, nor do I imagine that it will survive into the summer.As to the album art, I’ve no idea what’s going on with the jacket photograph, depicting Ryan Bingham as some sort of latter-day superfly dandy in his new high-crowned white hat, leaning on his vintage pimped out Caddy pulling a horse trailer with who knows what in side, for who knows what good reason.And therein lies the dilemma for me, I simply see no good reason for owning this record.Review by Jenell Kesler