Billy Bob Thornton Finds He As soon as Recorded a Duet With Johnny Money

Someplace in the market is a recording of Billy Bob Thornton and Johnny Money taking part in Money’s 1958 tune “I Nonetheless Leave out Any person” in combination. In a new interview with The Mother or father, Thornton printed that he collaborated with Money at the track, however it hasn’t ever been launched.

The actor responded a chain of fan questions for the U.Okay. newspaper, together with the question “You’ve met Johnny Money. What was once that like?”

“I by no means were given over being worried round Johnny Money as it was once like God walked within the room,” Thornton recalled. “I stayed at his space a few instances and I didn’t wish to get stuck in my drawers having a look in his fridge. So I simply stayed in my room all evening lengthy. However he was once very sort to me. We did a duet in combination of one in every of his songs, ‘I Nonetheless Leave out Any person,’ that I’ve by no means put out.”

He persevered, “Money mentioned to me, ‘What’s your thought, son?’ And I mentioned, ‘Smartly, I assumed we’d do the primary verse and bridge after which it’s good to do your recitation.’ This was once at some extent the place Johnny was once in somewhat extra sick well being. And I mentioned, ‘Then you definitely do the recitation after which we’ll come again and do the ultimate verse and bridge.’ And he mentioned, ‘Yeah, that sounds excellent to me.’ After which he mentioned, ‘I may also have an concept or two myself. Finally I wrote the fucking factor.’ And I used to be like, ‘Sure, sir, sorry.’”

Thornton added that Money “wrote a tale about that day on 4 items of pocket book paper.” “It was once partially reality, partially fiction,” the actor defined. “And at the ultimate web page are 3 autographs through him: ‘John R Money,’ ‘Johnny Money,’ ‘John Money.’ And I mentioned, ‘John, why did you write 3 autographs on that paper?’ He says, ‘Son, when you ever get broke, reduce the ones into 3 items and also you’ll be all proper.’

In other places within the interview, Thornton shared a reminiscences of seeing the Beatles when he was once 8 years previous and changing into a roadie at age 18. “I used to be a thin little 64 kg creep with lengthy hair all the way down to my waist, lifting stuff that I couldn’t actually carry,” he remembered of running for bands. “It wasn’t as glamorous as you may suppose, however I cherished each minute of it as a result of all I sought after to do was once be in that international.”

Thornton, who these days stars on Paramount+ collection Landman, added that he nonetheless enjoys each tune and performing. “I went to LA to play tune, by chance were given into performing,” he mentioned. “I’m nonetheless now not positive the way it came about. I at all times say that my luck as an actor was once out of lack of know-how, as a result of I didn’t understand how to be anything else instead of herbal, and I believe they favored that. I cherished either one of them. It’s all one imaginative and prescient, all out of the similar mind. I couldn’t make a choice one over the opposite. I’d find irresistible to do each, so long as they’ll let me.”

Thornton’s ultimate solo album, Stunning Door, arrived in 2007 and he has since launched tune as a part of rock band the Boxmasters. The band dropped LP Love & Hate in Determined Puts in August and toured widely round North The usa ultimate fall.

In 2014, Thornton informed Rolling Stone he was once glad to pay his dues in tune if it intended being taken critically.

“I used to be taking part in in bands because the time I used to be a child,” he mentioned. “If in some way, in 1981, once I began as an actor in LA, if I had fallen on my ass doing that, after which in some way were given a report deal, I’d be placing up with the similar factor in the other way. If you wish to discuss paying my dues, it’s all I ever did. I wasn’t in theater. I used to be handiest in tune.”