Keeping the Wolves at Bay

Singer-songwriter Ryan Bingham won an Oscar, a Grammy, and an Americana Artist of the Year award all before he turned 30. He’d also endured a turbulent adolescence and lost both of his parents prematurely, his mom to alcoholism and his dad to suicide.

Thanks to the healing nature of music and the love of his wife, Anna Axster, the 39-year-old Bingham has since found peace as the father of three young children. His sixth studio album, last year’s American Love Song, was a hit, and he’s got an acting role in Yellowstone, a TV drama starring Kevin Costner. But there remains a lingering sadness in Bingham’s Texas rasp.

It’s all there in the starkly autobiographical song “Nobody Knows My Trouble,” which takes listeners from Bingham’s