Get this unreleased song on the Landman soundtrack pronto. Long before Billy Bob was the star of the hit Paramount+ show, he was broke and trying to make it as either a musician or an actor. Thornton moved to California in the 1980s originally trying to make it in music. When things weren’t progressing, he decided to try out a little acting gig on the side. For his first job, which just required him to say one line, he was paid over $350. From that point on, he knew he wanted to be an actor. Though that realization didn’t immediately translate to success in Hollywood. Thornton flip-flopped between acting and playing music in the late 1980s and early ’90s in an effort to just stay afloat financially. When one potential career path slowed, he pivoted and went to the other. It’s hard to imagine the actor known for such classic films as Sling Blade and Bad Santa was struggling to get his foot in the door, but like many that chase the dream of becoming a movie star, Thornton’s life wasn’t all glitz and glamor initially. When he started to break through a bit in acting and making music, he was fortunate enough to meet the legendary Johnny Cash after Thornton’s 2003 film U-Turn caught the country music artist’s attention. Their relationship started with a simple phone call, and blossomed into occasional visits when the movie star made trips to Nashville, Tennessee. Billy Bob has detailed some of those visits in the past, and in a recent interview with a country music radio station in the UK, the 70-year-old actor revealed that of all the high-profile individuals he’s met over the years, the one person that always made him a nervous wreck when he saw him was the “Man in Black.” The Landman star says that Johnny Cash had a presence to him that led to Thornton having unshakable nerves whenever he was around the legendary artist: “I came up around all of those guys: Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings and Kris Kristofferson. And Johnny Cash is the only one that I never got over being nervous around. Because every time… his presence was so huge, that you were always aware that you were around Johnny Cash.” A number of artists over the years have echoed similar sentiments about the aura of Johnny Cash. Thornton and Cash grew closer as friends as the years went by, and apparently Billy Bob was able to control the nerves at one point for long enough to… record a song with Johnny. The TV and movie star went on to talk about their collaboration, saying that he and Johnny talked over a plan for the cover of Cash’s “I Still Miss Someone”… and at one point, Cash passionately indicated that he might have a couple of notes on the song that he wrote himself: “(It’s) never been released, no. This was later on. He wasn’t singing like he used to, and didn’t have as much breath and everything. When we were doing a song – we did ‘I Still Miss Someone’ – he said, ‘Well son, what do you want to do?’ I said, ‘Well, I thought I’d sing the first verse and bridge, and then you do recitation. We’ll come out of that and have a solo, and then I’ll do the last verse and bridge. And he goes, ‘Alright, I might have an idea or two myself. After all, I wrote the f***ing thing.’ And I was like, ‘Yes, God. Thank you very much.'” View this post on Instagram All I know is that the world needs to hear this Billy Bob Thornton and Johnny Cash duet that’s mentioned in this story. Obviously, the original version is one of Cash’s greatest hits… but I can’t be the only one thinking that a collab between Johnny and Billy Bob would be worth a listen, right? “I Still Miss Someone” The post “Never Been Released”: Landman Star, Billy Bob Thornton, Says He’s Been Sitting On A Song He Recorded With Johnny Cash first appeared on Whiskey Riff.