{"id":35138,"date":"2026-04-24T08:52:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T12:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/?p=35138"},"modified":"2026-04-24T08:50:51","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T12:50:51","slug":"billy-bob-thornton-has-written-20-country-songs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2026\/04\/billy-bob-thornton-has-written-20-country-songs\/","title":{"rendered":"Billy Bob Thornton Has Written 20 Country Songs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Billy Bob Thornton<\/strong>\u00a0has been\u00a0<strong>writing country songs<\/strong> ever since he wrote\u00a0<strong>Flatland Cavalry&#8217;s<\/strong>\u00a0<strong><em>&#8220;Midland After Midnight&#8221;<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0for the\u00a0<strong><em>&#8220;Landman&#8221;<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0soundtrack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He says he&#8217;s written about 18 to 20 songs, and they&#8217;re more reminiscent of something from\u00a0<strong>Waylon Jennings<\/strong>\u00a0or\u00a0<strong>Johnny Cash<\/strong>.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t write what they write these days.\u00a0 Modern country music doesn&#8217;t thrill me.\u00a0I call it\u00a0<strong>&#8216;Def Leppard<\/strong>\u00a0with a steel guitar.&#8217;\u00a0 It just sounds like pop music.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"insta-iframe\" src=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DRS08WKj6CI\/embed\/captioned\" width=\"auto\" height=\"auto\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display:inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height:0;\"  class=\"mce_SELRES_start\"><\/span><\/iframe>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Billy Bob Thornton\u00a0has been\u00a0writing country songs ever since he wrote\u00a0Flatland Cavalry&#8217;s\u00a0&#8220;Midland After Midnight&#8221;\u00a0for the\u00a0&#8220;Landman&#8221;\u00a0soundtrack. He says he&#8217;s written about 18 to 20 songs, and they&#8217;re more reminiscent of something from\u00a0Waylon Jennings\u00a0or\u00a0Johnny Cash.\u00a0 &#8220;I don&#8217;t write what they write these days.\u00a0 Modern country music doesn&#8217;t thrill me.\u00a0I call it\u00a0&#8216;Def Leppard\u00a0with a steel guitar.&#8217;\u00a0 It just sounds","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":35139,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[2192,7198,6911,7199],"class_list":["post-35138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-billy-bob-thorton","tag-flatland-cavalry","tag-landman","tag-midland-after-midnight"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-03 05:51:07","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\/04\/billy-bob-thornton-has-written-20-country-songs\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35138","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=35138"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35140,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35138\/revisions\/35140"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}