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Willie Nelson Releases Gay Cowboy Song
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS - February 15, 2006
Filed at 10:12 a.m. US- EST

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (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 1981. Sublette said
he wrote it during the ''Urban Cowboy'' craze.

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.