Willie Nelson Climbs Aboard The Brokeback Horse
Ewww. Even that semi-innuendo laden headline gave me the “willies”. Ugh! Another pun!!! I’m guessing this new song of Willie’s won’t be ‘number 17′.
Anyway, PajamasMedia network partner, SayAnything, has the downlow on a new download from Willie Nelson.
Willie Nelson just released a song about gay cowboys exclusively on iTunes. It is called “Cowboys Are Frequently Secretly (Fond Of Each Other).”
I’m kinda not sure what to make of it. It certainly isn’t the sort of thing I expected from Willie Nelson. I mean, he’s always been something of an outlaw with the pot smoking and what not, but a gay cowboy song?
Weird.
SayAnything has downloaded a clip of the song for your listening pleasure… (or creeped-out feeling where I landed). (LINK HERE FOR SONG) You have to be an iTunes subscriber to have the enjoyment of downloading the whole thing.
I’m afraid it is more than weird. As Simon Cowell would say…. it was “affected.” And, I think I may have to go puke.
-Bruce (GayPatriot)
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I’m not sure who wrote “Cowboys Are Frequently Secretly Fond of Each Other”, but, I heard it from Pansy Division at least 10 years ago… maybe more.
So, it’s an oldie but goodie. Interesting that the world has finally caught up to the point where Willie would cover it
Comment by Calarato — February 15, 2006 @ 11:23 am - February 15, 2006
Link to Pansy Division’s first album. (not having the song; just a cute album)
Ah, here we go. The album that has it is “Pile Up”, came out in 1995.
The guy I was playing with at the time wanted to cover it, so I started to learn it, but it’s awkward to sing and we didn’t pursue it.
Comment by Calarato — February 15, 2006 @ 11:31 am - February 15, 2006
The guy who wrote it gave it to Nelson a long time ago. Pansy Division has recorded it as well.
Comment by Jeremy — February 15, 2006 @ 11:39 am - February 15, 2006
Willie sang “He Was A Friend Of Mine” for the closing credits of Brokeback Mountain and it’s included on the CD. Maybe he was uncomfortable being seen as so closely (and from the lyrics of the song, sympathetically) involved with the so-called “gay cowboy movie” and this is kind of distancing himself? It is a wierd song, this new one, and I also felt kinda creeped out by it.
Comment by EssEm — February 15, 2006 @ 11:52 am - February 15, 2006
Well it expresses a very gay viewpoint. “What did you think all that leather and boots was about?”, or something like that.
A viewpoint in the genre of those things gay guys tell each other – “yeah, homophobes are secretly gay” and all that. Hearing an old straight guy sing it, yeah, it’s kinda like a creepy sexual form of blackface.
Comment by Calarato — February 15, 2006 @ 12:13 pm - February 15, 2006
What an odd song. And it seems to confuse an individuals potential for identifying with the opposite gender as a basis for homosexual attraction. I’m not entirely comfotable with the song depicting small towns as automatically homophobic. Are any of you guys/gals from small towns? What’s it like?
Comment by Dave — February 15, 2006 @ 12:33 pm - February 15, 2006
Willie is curiously-nervously – secretly-creeping me out!
//way too much pot smoking for gentleman of his years
Comment by Vera Charles — February 15, 2006 @ 12:47 pm - February 15, 2006
Mocking, sardonic by Pansy Division. Just embarrassing and unnerving by Willie Nelson.
Comment by wfoster — February 15, 2006 @ 1:40 pm - February 15, 2006
Willie makes a good point with his latest choice in recording music: not all the hucksters are found under the Capitol’s dome. He was a creep when he didn’t pay his taxes; he’s a creep even now.
Comment by Michigan-Matt — February 15, 2006 @ 3:10 pm - February 15, 2006
Wayon Jennings is turning in his grave.
Comment by rightwingprof — February 15, 2006 @ 3:42 pm - February 15, 2006
Michigan-Matt – Willie Nelson could be a Satanist, and it would still be blasphemy to speak so ill against Willie. No Kucinich-endorsing could ever sully him in my book.
Comment by Jeremy — February 15, 2006 @ 5:05 pm - February 15, 2006
He should change the title to “To All the Guys I’ve Loved Before.”
Regards,
Peter Hughes
Comment by Peter Hughes — February 15, 2006 @ 6:53 pm - February 15, 2006
SayAnything, has the downlow
What? No joke on the “downlow”?
Comment by ThatGayConservative — February 15, 2006 @ 7:10 pm - February 15, 2006
Ummm, this is surprising, why? I’m not even a country music fan and I’d heard rumors about Willie from my military buddies at DLI back in the 80s.
Comment by Asher Abrams — February 15, 2006 @ 9:26 pm - February 15, 2006
According to a story posted at another blog, Nelson filed this song away a long time ago He recently found it and decided to release it as sort of encouragement for a key employee who’s been uncomfotable since coming out. I’ve probably screwed up some of the details, but that’s the basic story.
Comment by Jack Allen — February 15, 2006 @ 11:27 pm - February 15, 2006
I finally got to listen to it.
IMHO, it’s one of those songs that’s great until the artist starts singing.
Comment by ThatGayConservative — February 16, 2006 @ 1:04 am - February 16, 2006
Let me put it this way….it wouldn’t be the first time Willie recorded something as a secret joke on the people he knows are going to want to buy it.
Comment by North Dallas Thirty — February 16, 2006 @ 1:31 am - February 16, 2006