When Ryan Bingham and The Texas Gentlemen paid Salt Lake City’s Red Butte Garden a visit on Sunday (June 8, 2025), part of Bingham’s 17-date All Night Long Tour, his wide-eyed fans did everyone on stage a solid by selling the night out. They also wore a lot of cowboy hats and/or boots because, well, both tend to match a country music show nicely.
It’s safe to assume that many of the assembled audience had first discovered Ryan Bingham from the popular Kevin Costner vehicle Yellowstone (AKA Cowboy Falcon Crest). Bingham, who is also an actor, played Walker, a hang-dog ranchhand and itinerant barroom troubadour, who became one of the series’ most popular secondary characters.
Opting to play two complete sets of music instead of bothering with an opener, fans got even more than what they bargained for, and that’s always a good-to-great thing. Bingham casually made his way through older favorites (“Jingle and Go,” “Bluebird,” “The Weary Kind”) as well as songs so new they’ve yet to be recorded (and his “Americana” deserves to be played on the radio already). Looking a little like Matthew McConaughey’s kid brother and owning up to a similarly easy Texas grin, Bingham and the rest of his players were in great spirits, which had a ripple effect on all attending.
Is it OK to end a review with a request? (It’s got to be because I’m about to do it.) The locals deserve a whole night of music from The Texas Gentlemen whenever their next time rolls around. They’re a more than capable backing band—not unlike the Heartbreakers sans their late Tom Petty superstar—and pointing a spotlight in their direction would more than prove that. And whatever tour manager takes me up on that suggestion will find that out for themselves. Music gods, make it so.
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