Ben Ballinger
Sagebrush
5500 S Congress Ave
Austin, TX 78745
Apr 18, 2023
8:00 PM CDT
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Brothers Ben and Galen Ballinger both delivered new albums last month and offer a repeat of their dual South by Southwest release show after the mayhem. Galen opens with his brooding Dumb Balloon, heavy beats etching into his darkly intoned vocals that lull into hypnotic invocations. Ben, meanwhile, unloads a mixture of vitriol and sadness laced with a weary wonder on Egress, his first full LP since 2014’s The State I’m In. The local songwriter weaves with an emotional intensity, sparking between small, vivid revelations and regrets. – Doug Freeman
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Ben Ballinger Biography
Ben Ballinger makes roots music with an emotional depth and songwriting mastery rarely heard on the Americana scene. A balladeer in the truest sense, Ballinger comes off as a craftsman, building fine-tuned melodies out of roughhewn passions. Ballinger mines every bit of his existence, a lifetime worth of triumph and disappointment and discovery, panning through the spiritual silt for a golden truth. Another from-the-hip melodic twist, another gut-wrenching insight, and one more late-night starry-eyed rhythm and rhyme. After digging deep into the Austin, Texas scene for the past few years, Ballinger easily stands out among the pack of would-be Country soulmen with an undeniably genuine Northwest brogue and the kind of hardscrabble lyrical chops that can only come from experience, solitude and struggle. Ballinger consistently achieves what all troubadours aim for—he tells us his story, while letting it be ours. “A warm-voiced alt-twang tunesmith, who sounds part Father John Misty and part Townes Van Zandt” — -Vita.mn (Minneapolis Arts & Entertainment)
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