Willie Nelson, and the first Brokeback Mountain

[doubleU]

He wrote this in 1981

http://www.secretcowboys.com/

 

[MrsSpringsteen]

I read about that yesterday, it's on iTunes too - that's sort of freaky that he wrote that so long ago

lol, I like the video w/ the dancing animals

I prefer the song he wrote for Brokeback Mountain

 

[phanan]

I don't believe Willie Nelson wrote it, from what I remember in the article. Someone else did.

And he just recorded it last year.

 

[MrsSpringsteen]

Yep, I posted this in FYM and I didn't even remember it..


AP

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 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.

 

[Headache in a Suitcase]

i wonder if we'll ever get to a point where a major recording artist can record a song like this and it isn't news.

 

[doubleU]

Thanks for the correction, I thought I read where he wrote it.