Song review: Crazy Heart - The Weary Kind by Ryan Bingham

The Weary Kind (Theme from Crazy Heart) by Ryan Bingham, Music Lyrics and Video

The Weary Kind (full title "The Weary Kind (Theme from Crazy Heart)") is an Academy Award-winning country song written by T-Bone Burnett and Ryan Bingham for the award-winning Crazy Heart, a 2009 film directed by Scott Cooper starring Jeff Bridges and Maggie Gyllenhaal. Colin Farrell and Bridges perform renditions of the song in the film. Bingham and his Dead Horses serve as Bridges' backing band in the film as well.

Ryan Bingham, the rodeo bull rider turned singer/songwriter, wrote and performed two songs for the soundtrack of the movie Crazy Heart, including "I Don't Know," and the theme song, "The Weary Kind."

On January 17, 2010, Bingham was awarded the Golden Globe for Best Original Song for "The Weary Kind" at the 2009 Golden Globe Awards. The song won Best Original Song at the 2009 82nd Academy Awards.

You can listen the song here, Ryan Bingham performing live "The Weary Kind", from the soundtrack for CRAZY HEART.