Jill Scott and Emmylou Harris - Episode 69

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Social Distortion & The Old 97's - Episode 48

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Mp3 version just 7.99 (right now)

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Episode 45 Kid Rock & Raul Malo

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TJR Reivews Ryan Bingham - Roadhouse Sun - Music Worth Buying 07/08/09

Artist: Ryan Bingham
Album: Roadhouse Sun
Worth Buying: Every song
You might be interested in this album if you are fan of: Springsteen, Mellencamp, Tom Petty, Michael Ubaldini, Americana Rock, Southern Rock

Tell Me More: It's no secret within the music industry that most new albums are way over compressed. New recordings are compressed and
compressed in an attempt to make them louder. The reason for making albums louder, is that everyone is afraid that if there album isn't as loud as everyone else's, no one will notice them when the first note starts playing. This is not relegated to just Rock, Pop, and Hip Hop. Even a soft acoustic ballad will be compressed so that it is just as loud.

The downside to this, is that there is no dynamic range to a lot of today's music. The softer parts of a song are just as loud as the.....louder parts of the song.

Studies have shown that louder will get the listeners attention...for a moment, but that if every song and every part of the song is at the same level of loudness, the listener starts dismiss it all as background.

So that is why it was such a surprise to hear dynamic range on the latest album by Country/Roots/Americana/Rock Singer Songwriter Ryan Bingham.

The albums first track "When The Day is done" opens with a quiet refrain. So quiet that I turned up my car stereo for a moment to hear it better, suddenly The Electric guitars came bursting into chorus and suddenly I was turning my car stereo down....I had to laugh, because It's been some time since an album or song fooled me like this, and then I realized.....There is some dynamic range to this album......What a novel idea.

The next thing I noticed about Mr Bingham's album is that on Amazon he is listed as Country, but when I put the CD into my itunes he is categorized as Rock.

My take: If this album had come out in the 70's, Ryan Bingham would have categorized somewhere between the Populist rock of Springsteen and the Southern rock of Skynnard.

There are definite country influences and some songs are definitely more legitimately country than most of the Pop disguised as country that has turned me off of Country radio....but for my money this is a rock album.

What about the packaging? The CD comes in a standard 4 panel digipak. Lyrics are not included.

NOTE: The amazon mp3 store version comes with an exclusive bonus track

2ND NOTE: Right now the CD version is only 6.99 at Amazon!....This could change at anytime.

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CD Version

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXFc-OTNbxM