Austin City Limits will livestream a concert by the award-winning country artist Tuesday evening.
Hey, want to go to a Ryan Bingham concert tonight?
No, don’t worry about buying spiffy new duds to show off, or making sure you have enough cash afterwards to gas up your car. Thanks to the miracle of modern technology, you can savor a performance by Bingham and his band The Texas Gentlemen on the Austin City Limits stage without leaving your living room. Or your bedroom. Or wherever.
Starting promptly at 9 p.m. ET/8 p.m. CT Tuesday, Austin City Limits will livestream the event on YouTube.com/AustinCityLimitsTV and Yiktok.com/@austincitylimitstv.
And if you can’t make it, don’t fret. Austin City Limits — a production of Austin PBS, and the longest running music series in television history — will broadcast Bingham’s performance in an episode slated to air this fall.
During the Tuesday concert, Bingham will preview songs from They Call Us The Lucky Ones, his highly anticipated seventh studio album, which will be released May 15. He’ll be joined by The Texas Gentlemen, an all-star ensemble that includes Ryan Ake (guitars), Daniel Creamer (piano, organ), Paul Grass (drums, percussion) and Scott Lee (bass). The record also features Richard Bowden (fiddle, mandolin) and Cody Huggins (electric guitar, acoustic guitar, pedal steel).
According to an ACL press release, They Call Us The Lucky Ones finds Bingham reflecting “on the highs and lows of an artist’s life on the road and his newfound sense of joy and hope, all framed by the unique genre-defying sound he and the band create together. In celebration of the new music, Bingham and The Texas Gentlemen will embark on their extensive ‘Still Gettin’ Away With It Tour’ this spring.”
“This album was probably the most fun I’ve had making a record,” Bingham says. “I’ve always loved records that feel loose and live and gritty with a bit of soul, where the imperfections from the moment are left in. Working with musicians as talented as The Texas Gentlemen really let us lean into that in a way I hadn’t experienced before. There was an unspoken understanding between us about what each song needed, so we tracked most of it live with minimal overdubs, just playing and letting the feel lead. It finally felt like I was capturing these songs the way I always heard them in my head. We can’t wait to get out on the road and share them with fans.”
Fun Fact: Bingham — who won a passel of awards, including an Oscar, as co-writer (with T Bone Burnett) of “The Weary Kind,” a song featured prominently in the 2009 film Crazy Heart — made his breakthrough as an actor in Yellowstone. He was cast in the Taylor Sheridan-produced series as Walker, a guitar-strumming ranch hand whose instrument of choice was smashed to bits in a fit of rage by the curmudgeonly Lloyd Pierce (Forrie J. Smith) during a memorable Season 4 episode.
More recently, Bingham starred in Love Letter to Texas, a visually striking and emotionally resonant 14-minute short written and directed by Jeff Nichols (Mud, Loving) that pays eloquent tribute to the cinematic heritage of the Lone Star State.
