{"id":2234646,"date":"2026-01-14T17:02:28","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T17:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2234646"},"modified":"2026-01-14T17:02:28","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T17:02:28","slug":"julianna-rankins-bad-habits-and-good-horses-comes-to-landman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/julianna-rankins-bad-habits-and-good-horses-comes-to-landman\/","title":{"rendered":"Julianna Rankin&#8217;s &#8216;Bad Habits and Good Horses&#8217; Comes to &#8216;Landman&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/julianna-rankin\/\" id=\"auto-tag_julianna-rankin\" data-tag=\"julianna-rankin\">Julianna Rankin<\/a> spent the past two years placing a bet on herself. Just as she gained a foothold as part of the latest group of rising Texas stars touring relentlessly across the Lone Star State, Rankin hit pause. She had touring figured out, she thought, but she wanted to improve as a songwriter. \u201cBeing off the road as a musician is daunting. It can get dark at times, because you don\u2019t have that steady income,\u201d Rankin says of her decision. This week, though, Rankin sees that bet pay off.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tOn Wednesday, Rankin released the single \u201cBad Habits and Good Horses,\u201d her first on the Big Loud Texas label founded three years ago by Miranda Lambert and Jon Randall. The tune will also feature in Sunday\u2019s season finale of <em>Landman<\/em>, Taylor Sheridan\u2019s Paramount+ series that has <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-country\/landman-billy-bob-thornton-songs-soundtrack-1235498080\/?utm_source=edit-vip\">doubled as a gateway<\/a> for independent Texas, Red Dirt, and Americana artists to reach substantial audiences in a single scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tA <em>Landman<\/em> feature alone may not be a skeleton key for success, but it\u2019s a massive platform for Rankin\u2019s mellow vocals and hard country lyrics like \u201cBad habits, good horses, \u2018cause they\u2019re hell on a heart.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Julianna Rankin - Bad Habits and Good Horses (Lyric Video)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/G-JOTCiq9PY?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><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201cI\u2019ve been calling it, for lack of a better word, a hammer of a song,\u201d Rankin says. \u201cIt\u2019s so much fun. I just played it acoustic on a little acoustic tour with William Beckmann, and I loved it. My band is loving it too. It\u2019s one of those songs that I feel like everyone can relate to. It\u2019s such a broad message, not only coming from country roots like myself. I come from a family of bankers and cattle ranchers, so I grew up around horses, and I also grew up around bad habits \u2014\u00a0as we all have.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tThe song came from a writing camp that Landman music supervisor Andrea von Foerster organized with Big Loud Texas. Rankin co-wrote it with Garrett Bradford \u2014 who previously had a song featured in Sheridan\u2019s Yellowstone \u2014 and Jon Decious, whose songs have been cut by Lainey Wilson, Tyler Braden, and Lambert herself.<\/p>\n<section class=\"brands-most-popular \/\/ editors-pick-module lrv-u-margin-tb-2 lrv-u-border-a-2 u-box-shadow-5-5 lrv-u-padding-lr-1 a-span1 u-padding-b-1@tablet u-overflow-hidden\">\n<h2 id=\"section-heading\" class=\"c-heading larva  lrv-u-text-align-center u-border-color-black a-font-theme-primary-xxs lrv-u-color-black lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase u-letter-spacing-0063 lrv-u-padding-t-050 u-padding-b-0375@tablet lrv-u-padding-b-050@mobile-max lrv-u-border-b-2\">\n<p>\t\tEditor\u2019s picks<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tWhen they set out to write what would become \u201cBad Habits and Good Horses,\u201d von Foerster shared the backstory of a specific scene. It wasn\u2019t intended to be a part of the finale, but when von Foerster heard the finished product, she called an audible and worked it into Sunday\u2019s episode.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201cWe had walked into the room not knowing what was in store for all of us,\u201d Rankin says. \u201cAndrea walked in with a plan and gave us some key points to run with, and gave us a lot of freedom.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tRankin is a native Texan with deep musical roots. Her grandfather played in a Texas-based band in the 1970s, and she grew up nurturing a love for Merle Haggard, Stevie Nicks, and Carole King. \u201cI remember the first time I heard \u2018Blue Bayou\u2019 by Linda Ronstadt,\u201d she says.\u201d I was just in awe and floored. I didn\u2019t even realize, looking back as a kid, how influential it was on me. I realized, \u2018OK, well this makes sense now. This is why I\u2019ve always loved it so much. It\u2019s because it\u2019s what I was born to do.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tStill, she didn\u2019t take it seriously as a career path until, as a student at Texas A&amp;M, she ended up spending nights at the Tap, a local bar in College Station, Texas, singing karaoke. One night some patrons assumed Rankin was a musician and asked her where they could find her singing around town. That was the first time she thought, \u201cMaybe I should learn to play the guitar.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201cI started getting better at it and posting covers on Facebook,\u201d she says. One Mother\u2019s Day, she gave her mom a simple phone recording of her singing Lauren Alaina\u2019s \u201cLike My Mother Does.\u201d \u201cMy dad, immediately, was like, \u2018You should really think about doing this.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<section class=\"brands-most-popular \/\/ recirculation-modules lrv-u-margin-tb-2 lrv-u-border-a-2 u-box-shadow-5-5 lrv-u-padding-lr-1 a-span1 u-padding-b-1@tablet u-overflow-hidden\">\n<h2 id=\"section-heading\" class=\"c-heading larva  lrv-u-text-align-center u-border-color-black a-font-theme-primary-xxs lrv-u-color-black lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase u-letter-spacing-0063 lrv-u-padding-t-050 u-padding-b-0375@tablet lrv-u-padding-b-050@mobile-max lrv-u-border-b-2\">\n<p>\t\tRelated Content<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tAfter college, she moved to New Braunfels, one of the musical hotbeds of Texas music and fell in with established artists like Wade Bowen and Randy Rogers. Bowen, in particular, began inviting Rankin to join him during festival sets, and she gained enough exposure to build a following in Texas. Then, when Lambert\u2019s parents caught Rankin playing at the 2024 Mile 0 Festival in Key West, Florida, they turned their daughter onto her as well.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tAt the time, Big Loud Texas was very much in its infancy, but Lambert wanted Rankin to be a part of the label. Lambert, Randall, and Jack Ingram met Rankin in person in Austin that year at a celebration for the 40th anniversary of the venerable Arlyn Studios. It was supposed to be a business meeting, but Rankin doesn\u2019t recall talking shop at all.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201cWe stayed up until about five in the morning just passing guitars around and swapping songs,\u201d she says. \u201cIt was a dream night for any musician because you\u2019re sitting in the room with your heroes. Those were three people who I grew up listening to from a songwriters\u2019 standpoint. We got to know each other, and I keep saying it\u2019s all cosmic. It was in the stars from the beginning.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tShe signed to Big Loud despite having little more than a handful of singles and her 2023 EP, <em>Top Shelf<\/em>, in her catalog.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tThat\u2019s when Rankin realized she needed to hone her songwriting if she was to be taken seriously. She committed herself to the craft, scheduling a series of trips to Nashville to co-write even before joining Big Loud.<\/p>\n<section class=\"brands-most-popular \/\/ recirculation-modules trending-in-article lrv-u-margin-tb-2 lrv-u-border-a-2 u-box-shadow-5-5 lrv-u-padding-lr-1 a-span1 u-padding-b-1@tablet u-overflow-hidden\">\n<h2 id=\"section-heading\" class=\"c-heading larva  lrv-u-text-align-center u-border-color-black a-font-theme-primary-xxs lrv-u-color-black lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase u-letter-spacing-0063 lrv-u-padding-t-050 u-padding-b-0375@tablet lrv-u-padding-b-050@mobile-max lrv-u-border-b-2\">\n<p>\t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201cA lot of my favorite songs that have come out from the past two years have started by just sitting there with the writers and talking for two hours before we even start writing a song,\u201d she says. \u201cJust getting to know people \u2014 if I can walk out of there and have made a friend and maybe not even have a song, I feel like some day, me and that friend will write a song.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t<em>Josh Crutchmer is a journalist and author whose book <\/em><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/backloungepublishing.com\/almostalmostfamous\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\"><em>(Almost) Almost Famous<\/em><\/a><em> will be released April 1 via Back Lounge Publishing.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.rollingstone.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Julianna Rankin spent the past two years placing a bet on herself. Just as she gained a foothold as part of the latest group of rising Texas stars touring relentlessly across the Lone Star State, Rankin hit pause. 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