Ryan Bingham has enjoyed thrilling highs and suffered debilitating lows, sometimes all at once. While his career was taking off, he was coping with the tragic deaths of his mother, an alcoholic, and his father, who took his own life. The losses put Bingham in a dark tunnel, and it took a while to crawl his way out. “I always really struggled with my identity – who I was, where I was from,” Bingham explains of his pursuit of wholeness. The new album finds Bingham honing his creativity on two distinct levels, the personal and the cultural.