Thornton has co-written songs with some of country’s biggest stars
An all-star country soundtrack for the breakout Paramount+ series Landman is in the works. Series star and musician Billy Bob Thornton revealed the news during a recent interview we conducted with The Boxmasters.
When asked if the group would be contributing songs to the new season, Thornton shared, “The Boxmasters are not, but Mark Collie is an old friend of mine, a country singer-songwriter… Collie said, ‘Hey, you and I should write a country song [for the show] and see what happens.’ The next thing you know, I’m talking to MCA about doing a soundtrack album, and before you know it, somehow we started co-writing songs with all these country singers. I have a co-write thing on the soundtrack coming out that we wrote with Ronnie Dunn, and Billy Gibbons, and Parker McCollum, and Dwight Yoakam.”
Further details on the project are forthcoming.
Earlier this year, MCA released the Landman Original Series Soundtrack. We spoke with Andrew Lockington, who scored the music for the series, which flawlessly matches the drama and the intensity of the series, as well as the expanse of the landscape.
Set in the boomtowns of West Texas, Landman is a modern tale of fortune seeking amongst roughnecks and billionaires in the world of oil. The series stars Thornton as Tommy Norris, Collie as Sheriff Walt Joeberg, Ali Larter, Michael Peña, Jon Hamm, and Demi Moore.
Paramount+ renewed the 2024 hit for season two, which is set to premiere in November on the streaming service. The series, co-created by Taylor Sheridan and Christian Wallace, scored in the Top 10 SVOD Original Series for quarter four across all SVOD, alongside Paramount+’s Tulsa King and Lioness, marking only the second time since Nielsen began tracking SVODs that a service had three of the Top 10 series, outside of Netflix.
Landman had 35 million global streaming viewers for the premiere episode and set new records for Paramount+. It was the most-watched global premiere and finale of any series in Paramount+ history. It has placed as the top Paramount+ Original ever on the service with the top engagement driver and No. 1 on households.
Season one is available to stream exclusively on Paramount+, with a Blu-ray and DVD that dropped in May.
