Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. George Ryan Bingham (born March 31, 1981) is an Academy Award winning American Texas Country/Americana rodeo bull rider turned singer/songwriter. He has released two albums on the Lost Highway Records label. Lone Star Music financed his first album Dead Horses in 2006. After its success, Bingham was signed to Lost Highway Records and he made his major label debut with Mescalito on October 2, 2007, which was produced by former Black Crowes guitarist Marc Ford. Texas Music Magazine has opined that "Bingham talks and sings with a whiskey-and-cigarette throat that screams hard living. Hard in a way that can make a 25-year-old sound like a 50-year-old Tom Waits." Bingham spent several several years on the bull-riding rodeo circuit: He began bullriding in his late teens. His family moved several times, from Hobbs to Spring and Stephenville, Texas.