Fear and Fire at Ten: Ryan Bingham’s Rose Hill Drive Era

Ryan Bingham has always sounded older than his years. From the moment his whiskey-and-dust voice carried The Weary Kind through Crazy Heart, listeners pegged him as a songwriter built for lonesome highways and smoke-stained barrooms. But there was a moment — a brief, combustible stretch — when Bingham’s music became something bigger, louder, and less predictable. That moment was Fear and Saturday Night, released ten years ago, and the spark came from two Boulder musicians: guitarist Daniel Sproul and drummer Nate Barnes of Rose Hill Drive.