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I love him so.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060215/people_nm/nelson_dc

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 03:02 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, and I already loved Willie as much as I thought I could.

― TRG (TRG), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 03:15 (nineteen years ago)

This definitely makes up for the few (tiny) missteps in the last couple of years.

― TRG (TRG), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 03:16 (nineteen years ago)

He did contribute a poignant version of "He Was A Friend of Mine" to the Brokeback Mountain soundtrack.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 03:18 (nineteen years ago)

i still haven't seen that! i guess i should.

― kanye twitty (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 03:29 (nineteen years ago)

I just d/l'd this. It's a little heavy on the "y'all secretly wanna be women" sentiment for my tastes, since I've never felt that way. But that's a minor quibble since it's a cover and an enormously cool thing for him to do.

― cheshycat (chëshy f cat), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 03:30 (nineteen years ago)

written by Ned Sublette...who worked with Arthur Russel and Glenn Branca?

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 03:33 (nineteen years ago)

kanye twitty

ROFFLE! omg JBR you rule SO HARD.

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 03:34 (nineteen years ago)

written by Ned Sublette...who worked with Arthur Russel and Glenn Branca?

Yep. Also with David Van Tieghem.

I was more impressed with Willie Nelson doing an early Ned Sublette song than I was with him doing a gay-cowboy song.

― Myke. (Myke Weiskopf), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 03:35 (nineteen years ago)

i wonder if someone brought willie the song.

― kanye twitty (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 03:38 (nineteen years ago)

Sublette is also the author of the astounding Cuba and Its Music as well as the person who did the single greatest presentation I've seen at the EMP Pop Conference last year, on New Orleans (long before the flood), just spellbinding, just amazing.

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 03:40 (nineteen years ago)

hes also been close to willie for years, and gave a demo to him, 25 years ago. can someone ysi this, i cant get it to work for itunes

― Anthony Easton, Wednesday, 15 February 2006 05:09 (nineteen years ago)

He will probably be assassinated.

― Watch and see, Wednesday, 15 February 2006 05:25 (nineteen years ago)

I didn't know Ned Sublette wrote this, I thought it was a Kinky Friedman song. Wow, big ups to Willie!

― Drew Daniel (Drew Daniel), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 07:17 (nineteen years ago)

Ha ha. Drew, I thought the same thing about Kinky when someone mentioned it on another thread today.

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 07:28 (nineteen years ago)

"He Was A Friend of Mine" = one of the best singles of '05.

― Eazy (Eazy), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 07:45 (nineteen years ago)

Cowboys.

― Bobby Peru (Bobby Peru), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 07:48 (nineteen years ago)

i agree that he was a friend of mine, is as complex and haunting as the film, and on my singles list. who else has sung it

― Anthony Easton, Wednesday, 15 February 2006 08:32 (nineteen years ago)

Bob Dylan's solo version from the early 1960s is one of the best things on 'The Bootleg Series Vol. 1-3' box set.

Greg Brown and Bill Morrissey covered it on a covers record they did on Rounder in the early 90s - so-so.

― Eazy (Eazy), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 14:57 (nineteen years ago)

pansy division covered it too

― dan bunnybrain (dan bunnybrain), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 18:12 (nineteen years ago)

For shits and giggles:

Willie Nelson - Cowboys Are Secretly, Frequently (Fond of Each Other)

― macphista, Wednesday, 15 February 2006 18:54 (nineteen years ago)

Hahaha

― Turangalila (Salvador), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 20:05 (nineteen years ago)

thanks so much

― Anthony Easton, Wednesday, 15 February 2006 20:49 (nineteen years ago)

Mercury Rev has a version too

― dan. (dan.), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 20:55 (nineteen years ago)

So do The Byrds.

― sleeve (sleeve), Thursday, 16 February 2006 01:38 (nineteen years ago)

heh, does this song propose a lacanian understanding of gender?

― amateurist0, Thursday, 16 February 2006 03:50 (nineteen years ago)

Somehow (okay, it was the scansion of the title) I had the idea this was a rewrite of 'Mamas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to be Cowboys.'

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Thursday, 16 February 2006 05:54 (nineteen years ago)

See also this thread for more on "He Was A Friend Of Mine." And I'll be damned if I didn't see a record with another version of it the other day but I've already completely forgotten what it was. Dang me!

― Doctor Casino (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 16 February 2006 06:43 (nineteen years ago)

Cowboys Are Secretly, Frequently (Fond of Each Other)

this belongs in the thread about song titles whose parentheses render them incoherent. (e.g. "get up [i feel like being a] sex machine")

shouldn't the stuff in parens be expendable?

but you could hardly have a song called "cowboys are secretly, frequently"! it's not even a clause!

i suppose "secretly, frequently" could be put in parens, but that would be too, i dunno, modish for a country song.

― amateurist0, Thursday, 16 February 2006 06:51 (nineteen years ago)

i really think it does, A

― anthony easton (anthony), Thursday, 16 February 2006 07:17 (nineteen years ago)

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