Mystery Ending Song in ‘Landman’ Episode 9 Stirs Interest
In September at AmericanaFest when Yellowstone Music Supervisor Andrea von Foerster warned the crowd assembled for an event to keep their eyes out for a new series called Landman because the music would play an every bigger role than Yellowstone, it definitely got people’s attention. After all, Yellowstone was instrumental to helping launch the independent revolution in country. Now this Landman series streaming on Paramount+ could have an even greater impact?
Now nine episodes into the series, we’re seeing what Andrea von Foerster meant about the Taylor Sheridan-written and directed series. Along with getting a hands-on course on the workings of the West Texas oil patch, and some incredible acting by Billy Bob Thornton who nabbed a Golden Globe nomination for his role, the soundtrack has been rather incredible. Three songs from the Turnpike Troubadours were featured in Episode 4 alone, and three from The Red Clay Strays were featured in Episode 7.
To see all the songs featured in the series so far, CLICK HERE.
It’s not just the amount of songs featured in the series. Though some episodes are chock full of great independent country tunes, some have only featured one or two. But it’s how the songs have become so symbiotic with the moments of the series. It’s like Taylor Sheridan and Andrea von Foerster took everything they learned from Yellowstone and the music, and did themselves one level better.
Whether you know songs like Ian Noe’s “If Today Doesn’t Do Me In” or Drayton Farley’s “Blue Collar” beforehand, or it’s your discovery mechanism for these artists, it all feels so rich and reverberative with the way these songs come in at the perfect moment.
But something else that has intrigued viewers is some of the original music composed for the series itself via the series score. Usually the score is the otherwise nondescript mood-setting music that plays in the background of a TV show or movies that you may not even consciously notice, but goes a long way in making you “feel” the moments. Some of the work by the Landman score composer Andrew Lockington has been so good, it’s felt just as resonant and intriguing as the original songs licensed and sequenced to be in the series.
Such was the case at the end of Episode 9 released on Sunday, January 5th titled “Wolfcamp.” At the very end of the episode, Billy Bob Thornton’s character Tommy Norris is standing out back behind the house, watching a wolf (or a bushy coyote). During this moment, an original composition from Andrew Lockington plays that was written specifically for the scene. It was so perfect for the specific scene, it set off a firestorm on the internet of folks searching for the name and artist. Since it was an unreleased, original composition though, nobody could identify it.
For some reason, numerous people started assigning it as an unreleased song from Billy F. Gibbons of ZZ Top fame called “Livin’ It Up Down In Texas.” But that song actually appeared in an earlier scene in the episode. Multiple people even took the song and looped it to make it into a proper track, and uploaded it to YouTube. Some of the songs featured on the series have been unreleased, so some though that might be the same story for the mystery song.
But Landman score composer Andrew Lockington finally chimed in via Reddit to solve the mystery. “Hey everyone. Thanks for your interest in the show and the music,” Lockington said. “The track you’re looking for is one I wrote specifically for this scene in Landman. It will be on the score soundtrack. Announcement with release date coming soon on my IG page. Thanks for being such fans of the show.”
The soundtrack is expected to be released some time after the series wraps. Landman will air its season finale on Sunday, January 12th on Paramount+. A second season has already been confirmed. Though some have criticized the female characters in the series (though in truth, they’re probably accurate to Texas trophy wives and daughters), the series has otherwise received positive reviews.
As it works to fill the hole left by Yellowstone, Landman picks up where Yellowstone left off supporting cool music.
P.S.: a recording of the song at the end of Episode 9 is not being included here because it’s an unauthorized release. But it can be found via the YouTube like above.
January 8, 2025 @ 10:08 am
I certainly do not feel that Lockington is a stellar composer.
In fact, i find him bland and mediocre.
Was trying to get a proper answer for someone who may have accidentally posed a question to a comment i made on the Landman article.
Glad the people who liked the last song on episode 9, now have an answer.
January 8, 2025 @ 10:33 am
Believe it or not, this article is not about you, Di.
January 8, 2025 @ 12:58 pm
Didn’t intimate that it was.
Often, people on this site help others with questions we might have.
January 8, 2025 @ 10:40 am
Personally I am not going to tune into a western-based melodrama mmmhhmmm but if we could get a proper 2nd season to Tiger King if Joe Exotic gets released mmmhhmmm that’d be better than french fried potaters mmmhmmm
January 8, 2025 @ 11:07 am
Season 2 came out in 2021.
January 8, 2025 @ 10:46 am
The use of the TP song Wrecked was perfect for the scene. I was chuckling.
January 8, 2025 @ 11:34 am
Strange we never got a proper season by season soundtrack for Yellowstone.They’ve cashed in on nearly everything else imaginable. The season we got the excellent “Yellowstone Edition” re-recording of Tim McGraw’s “The Cowboy in Me” (the same year of 1883), I thought we were gearing up for a bunch of exclusive songs to the series like we are getting now in Land Man.
Either way Sheridan is very, very good for country music.
January 8, 2025 @ 11:50 am
I’m really enjoying my Yellowstone beef stronganoff TV dinners 🙂
January 8, 2025 @ 11:38 am
” Though some have criticized the female characters in the series (though in truth, they’re probably accurate to Texas trophy wives and daughters), the series has otherwise received positive reviews.”
This is the flaw of most Sheridan series; women are portrayed as stereotypes or uncontrolled F5’s. While it may seem entertaining, objectively it’s degrading.
And every man’s daughter is a trophy.
January 8, 2025 @ 12:20 pm
Isn’t it refreshing? No girl bosses.
January 8, 2025 @ 12:42 pm
I dunno, that female attorney who was put in charge of acquisitions seems pretty formidable
January 8, 2025 @ 4:29 pm
I think Sheridan does a great job of balancing his portrayal of women. I saw the same rhetoric JC is spewing all over the far left publications the first three weeks of Land Man. There’s nothing wrong with woman being women and men being men and for everyone it upsets, there Teeter, Monica, and Rebecca Falcone.
January 10, 2025 @ 1:07 pm
Nothing feminine about her, just as there’s nothing masculine about the Dutton sons.
She runs on pure power-trip and greed.
January 8, 2025 @ 5:45 pm
I’m still waiting on when Demi steps out. Maybe 5 lines for her this far in. I’m thinking she turns into the wicked bitch of the West.
January 13, 2025 @ 7:32 am
Isn’t she already?
January 8, 2025 @ 11:42 am
My theory was that a snakebite will play a role in the finale. With a Brent Cobb song (“Snakebite”) being released apparently for this series specifically, and the imagery of the rattler in EP 2 near Rebecca…I was guessing kind of a Chekhov’s Snake thing.
Guess I’ll find out Sunday. Hopefully Rip and cooler are not involved this time. But Sheridan does have a history of using snakes as murder weapons lol
January 8, 2025 @ 12:22 pm
The one-eyed snake caused a lot of manfall in Hollywood recently.
January 8, 2025 @ 4:32 pm
I was hoping Mark Collie was going to become the new Ryan Bingham in the Landman series, but the sheriff has hand minimal scenes to date and no chances to sing. Maybe the last episode will have a new Mark Collie song.
January 9, 2025 @ 10:25 am
I thought I was the only one old enough to recognize and still have a Mark Collie cd in my catalogue:)
Unfortunately I don’t think Mark has released new music in years. He’s become more of an actor than anything…
January 10, 2025 @ 1:09 pm
I still wait for a new Rick Vincent song, but he gave up after his debut album, it seems.
A shame.
January 10, 2025 @ 1:42 pm
I liked Hardin County Line, Tennessee Plates and the self-titled album but my favorite by Collie is Born and Raised in Black & White. A great collection of songwriters like Pat Alger, Don Cook, Paul Kennerley, Marty Stuart, Jamie O’hara, etc.