{"id":31689,"date":"2025-04-20T07:00:01","date_gmt":"2025-04-20T11:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/?p=31689"},"modified":"2025-04-16T08:46:16","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T12:46:16","slug":"country-songwriter-larry-bastian-passed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2025\/04\/country-songwriter-larry-bastian-passed\/","title":{"rendered":"Country Songwriter Larry Bastian Passed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Renowned country music songwriter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/country\/larry-bastian-dead-songwriter-rodeo-obituary-1235943624\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Larry Bastian passed away on Sunday, April 6, at age 90. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Born on September 1, 1934, in Porterville, California, Bastian initially worked as a biologist before pursuing a successful career in music.<\/p>\n<p>He made his mark in the 1970s as part of the influential Bakersfield Sound movement, collaborating with musicians like Jim Shaw.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout his career, he penned songs recorded by iconic artists such as Merle Haggard, Tammy Wynette, Conway Twitty, Reba McEntire, and George Jones, among others.<\/p>\n<p>His most notable successes came in the 1990s during a fruitful creative partnership with Garth Brooks, penning smash hits like \u201cUnanswered Prayers\u201d and \u201cRodeo,\u201d along with fan favorites like \u201cI\u2019ve Got a Good Thing Going,\u201d \u201cThe Old Man\u2019s Back in Town,\u201d \u201cCowboy Bill,\u201d \u201cNobody Gets Off in This Town\u201d and \u201cMan Against the Machine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>During an apperance on The Paul Leslie Hour in 2020, Bastian said&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThere was no doubt in my mind that I could write a song. I think you have to be that driven to succeed, and then there\u2019s a lot of luck. They have a saying, \u2018You can\u2019t get out of the way of a hit song,\u2019 and that\u2019s so right.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Larry Bastian, Co-Writer Of Garth Brooks\u2019 No. 1 Hit, \u201c\u2018Unanswered Prayers,\u201d Dies At 90","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":21862,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[5390,56,1917,6238,5687,507,6239,2040,6240],"class_list":["post-31689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-conway-twitty","tag-garth-brooks","tag-george-jones","tag-larry-bastian","tag-merle-haggard","tag-reba-mcentire","tag-rodeo","tag-tammy-wynette","tag-unanswered-prayers"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-11 11:40:24","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country959.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2025\/04\/country-songwriter-larry-bastian-passed\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31689"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31690,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31689\/revisions\/31690"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}