{"id":34723,"date":"2026-03-01T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/?p=34723"},"modified":"2026-02-27T09:24:33","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:24:33","slug":"willie-nelson-records-heart-of-america-for-civil-war-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2026\/03\/willie-nelson-records-heart-of-america-for-civil-war-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Willie Nelson Records \u201cHeart Of America\u201d For Civil War Series"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Willie Nelson has recorded \u201cHeart of America\u201d for the soundtrack to Amazon Prime\u2019s new Civil War drama, The Gray House. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The show premiered on Thursday, February 26, with the album released the same day via MCA Nashville\/Universal Music. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Songwriters Jim \u201cMoose\u201d Brown and Erin Enderlin and actor Jeff Fahey wrote the patriotic ballad specifically for the series finale. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Brown said, \u201cWhen we wrote this we thought Willie would be the perfect spokesperson for it.\u201d Executive producer Leslie Greif called Nelson \u201cthe holy grail\u201d for the project, stating \u201cWho has the breadth and gravitas to tell a story of unity of a country held together by its differences than Willie Nelson?\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The eight-episode series was also executive-produced by Kevin Costner and Morgan Freeman. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The soundtrack features additional contributions from country stars Lainey Wilson, Shania Twain, The War and Treaty, and Drake Milligan, along with songs by Adrienne Warren, Creed\u2019s Scott Stapp, Larkin Poe, and rapper Killer Mike. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Willie Nelson - Heart Of America (From The Gray House Original Soundtrack)\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0bhcO4Yphuo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Willie Nelson has recorded \u201cHeart of America\u201d for the soundtrack to Amazon Prime\u2019s new Civil War drama, The Gray House. The show premiered on Thursday, February 26, with the album released the same day via MCA Nashville\/Universal Music. Songwriters Jim \u201cMoose\u201d Brown and Erin Enderlin and actor Jeff Fahey wrote the patriotic ballad specifically for","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":31965,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[6592,7023,7024,7025,661],"class_list":["post-34723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-amazon-prime","tag-civil-war","tag-heart-of-america","tag-the-gray-house","tag-willie-nelson"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-19 19:06:14","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country959.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2026\/03\/willie-nelson-records-heart-of-america-for-civil-war-series\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34723","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=34723"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34733,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34723\/revisions\/34733"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}