With a voice that sounds like its one more cigarette and whiskey shot away from tearing out of his throat and demanding an apology and a brace of world-weary original tunes so caked in West Texas dust and true grit they could make a drowning man beg for water Ryan Bingham will most likely never find himself wrestling with Kenny Chesney for the No. 1 spot on the Billboard Country chart. But who needs mainstream country love when youve already got a pair of badass hombres like Joe Ely and Terry Allen on your booster team? At 26-years old and with just two albums to his credit his 2007 Lost Highway debut, Mescalito, and its predecessor, 2006s Dead Horses Bingham is already an old-soul troubadour whom Allen calls the legitimate heir to the hard-traveling, deep-knowing likes of Woody Guthrie and Hank Williams.