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Bingham reached out to The Texas Gentlemen, the beloved Lone Star collective that has backed up Paul Cauthen, Leon Bridges, Shawn Mendes, and the late Joe Ely, among many others. They hadn’t previously worked together, and it was going to be a tight turnaround. “I didn’t have any time to rehearse with them or anything,” Bingham recalls. He sent recordings and hoped for the best. What he got exceeded his expectations.

“We ended up playing these versions of these songs that were really almost how I meant for them to be played live from the time I wrote them 20 years ago,” Bingham says. “And it just really blew me away.”

The one-off date turned into more than one, and then a 2024 concert album recorded at Red Rocks Amphitheatre that reminded everyone why Bingham is such a revered live performer. The latest chapter of their ongoing collaboration is captured on Bingham’s seventh studio album They Call Us the Lucky Ones — his first release since 2023’s conceptual Watch Out for the Wolf EP and his first full-length studio album in seven years, following 2019’s American Love Song.

Recorded at Grant Wilborn’s 7013 Sound in Fort Worth, They Call Us the Lucky Ones is a collection that shows the alchemy of a world-class storyteller and a world-class band standing toe to toe in the studio. Bingham co-produced the album with his longtime sound engineer Wilborn, with sizzling instrumental contributions from The Texas Gentlemen’s Ryan Ake (guitar), Dan Creamer (keys), Paul Grass (drums), and Scott Lee (bass), as well as Richard Bowden (fiddle) and Cody Huggins (Guitar).

Together, they forge a sound that’s inspired by the thousands of miles they’ve traveled, the long stretches of time away from home, and the transcendent nights when deep connections are created with the audience.