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CD review of Junky Star
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Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Ryan Bingham & the Dead Horses
JUNKY STAR
It was one of the stranger career trajectories in recent
memory: Ryan Bingham, a mid-level singer-songwriter with
a slim back catalogue, was rescued from folkie purgatory
by the makers of the film "Crazy Heart," for which he
would eventually win both a Golden Globe and an Oscar for
Best Original Song for "The Weary Kind."
Because his victory likely had as much to do with a
groundswell of support for star Jeff Bridges and
awards-bait producer T-Bone Burnett as it did for his
solid, workmanlike songs, Bingham's first post-Oscar
release, the gravelly, understated "Junky Star," finds
him in an awkward position: He's now the Three 6 Mafia of
Americana acts, with a reputation bigger than anything
he's actually done to deserve it.
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