Interview by Jeff Johnson | Illustration by Alan Vest | Edit Project for The Surfer’s Journal

This interview was a fully collaborative project. Photographer and journalist Jeff Johnson had a reel of tape and some surf photos of country musician and songwriter Ryan Bingham, who apparently rides bulls and Pipeline in his free time. I helped Johnson draft an intro and whittle down their conversation, while TSJ’s art director, Jim Newitt, found Alan Vest to illustrate.