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Ryan Bingham

David Burke, R2/Rock'n'Reel, March 2015

RYAN BINGHAM'S IN a more hopeful place these days. And though his humility wouldn't countenance my or anyone else saying so, it makes you glad for him. The American singer-songwriter has done some hard travelling since his Oscar triumph in 2010 for 'The Weary Kind' from the film, Crazy Heart, losing both of his parents within a short time of each other. His mother drank herself to death and his father shot himself.

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