“I’ve always been afraid of losing that human connection with fans,” Ryan Bingham tells me. We’re holed up in the green room at Cain’s Ballroom in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where he is preparing for the second of back-to-back nights headlining the historic honky-tonk. “If I don’t really believe or feel what I’m singing about, how do I expect them to feel anything?”
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