What happens when you lose your childhood and you lose your parents to mental illnesses

and yet your job is to get up in front of people and show them a good time?

It's the hilarious world of depression. I'm John Moe. You're listening to a song called South Side of Heaven.

It's by Ryan Bingham.

I'm a grown up on a train. Won't you send it self-bind? Give your crew a blues man name.

Cause I've been lost down in back road so many times I've gone blind.

I knew some things in my family had dream me out of my 10 miles.

My name is Ryan Bingham and we are in Minneapolis, Minnesota at the fine line music venue.

I guess we're downtown, right?

Ryan Bingham has really six studio albums and one live album. He's won an Oscar for best original

song. His music is beautiful, sometimes inspirational and often more than a little sad.

And he's about the nicest guy you'd ever want to meet. I caught up with Ryan when he came through

Minneapolis on tour. He doesn't really have a hometown.

You know, I was born in Hobbes, New Mexico. Left there, I was four or five years old and kind of

hit the trail from there. We went to Beckerfield, California for several years. And then from there,

we moved back to Texas, Midland and Odessa. And then we went to Houston. Makes you wonder why he

moved so much. And I came back to New Mexico and then I went back to Houston and then I went to

Laredo, Texas on the border. Military family? Nope.

I think what's Stephenville, Texas from there, Fort Worth and then Austin and now back to LA.

What was the reason for moving around so much when you were a kid?

I was my parents. My dad couldn't hold down a job and when bills weren't getting paid and

the lights were getting shut off and we were getting evicted and having to move onto the next town.

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