Country music outlaw Willie Nelson sang "Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys" and "My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys" more than 25
years ago. He released a very different sort of cowboy anthem this Valentine's Day.
"Cowboys Are Frequently, Secretly (Fond of Each Other)" may be the first gay cowboy song by a major recording artist. But it was written long before
this year's Oscar-nominated "Brokeback Mountain" made gay cowboys a hot topic.
Available exclusively through iTunes, the song features choppy Tex-Mex style guitar runs and Nelson's deadpan delivery of lines like, "What did you
think all them saddles and boots was about?" and "Inside every cowboy there's a lady who'd love to slip out."
The song, which debuted Tuesday on Howard Stern's satellite radio show, was written by Texas-born singer-songwriter Ned Sublette in 1981. Sublette
said he wrote it during the "Urban Cowboy" craze and always imagined Nelson singing it.
Someone passed a copy of the song to Nelson back in the late 1980s and, according to Nelson's record label, Lost Highway, he recorded it last year at
his Pedernales studio in Texas.
Nelson has appeared in several Western movies and sings "He Was a Friend of Mine" on the "Brokeback Mountain" soundtrack.gavin - 2-15-2006 at 09:00 PM
good for himXHonusWagnerX - 2-15-2006 at 09:45 PM
I heard that song this morning on sirius. Its pretty good!joemaconmovies - 2-15-2006 at 11:11 PM
i bought the song on itunes. it's pretty good.XnMeX - 2-16-2006 at 08:45 AM
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Originally posted by Boycott Christian HC
Someone should round up all faggots together and burn them.
You SURE your not Christian?JawnDiablo - 2-16-2006 at 09:19 AM
i always liked willieVoodoobillyman - 2-16-2006 at 11:03 AM
Willie could write a song about his latest bowl mevement and it would be damn good. And I have to say some of the best bars I have ever been to were
the gay bars my lesbian friend took my wife and I to. Lots of fun, of course I clung to my wife for the first hour or so shotting glances all around
me, when the alcohol kicked in the paranoia went away and I was never violated in the least. Met some really cool people too.
