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Nelson's fan base is secure and broad enough (including "hippies, rednecks and outlaws young and old") to take risks with LGBT-themed songs and soundtracks, while the WXBX station manager pointed out that Nelson has not been a mainstream country star for a while. Nelson's broad audience, and part of the appeal of the song, may be that "Willie speaks his mind about any subject ... That's one of those things that has made him so endearing to so many generations of fans".
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Willie's smart. We talked about recording it in the '90s but we needed some kind of context. It wouldn't make sense to just put this on some normal Willie album ... The movie provided the context. I don't know if the public is any more or less ready than they were but I think the media is more
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described the lyrics as "the language of thirty years ago." David Nahmod, however, stated that he felt the lyrics maintain currency and say "a lot about gender identity and heterosexual elitism"; "The song aims to show Mr. Nelson's support for gays, particularly to conservative country-music fans",
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It's supposed to be funny, that's what gets people's attention, but to get people to listen to it a second time have to have something going on, and Willie beautifully brought out the tenderness there ... nice to have a funny song out there—it is challenging people to laugh. Everybody is so
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after performing on the show in the mid to late 1980s. According to Sublette, "Willie took it from there" though Nelson recently found that demo in a drawer among a stack of his own while recording unreleased songs for iTunes at his Spicewood, Texas, home studio. Nelson says, "I thought it was the
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Every now and then somebody might get a little offended. It's got bad language in it, so I just don't do it in my shows. Anybody wants to hear it can hear it on iTunes. But you know people are listenin' to it, likin' it. Every now and then somebody don't like it, but that's okay. Similar to years
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However, some sources speculate about the potential success and reception of the song. Nelson explains that he didn't think "it took a lot of balls to put the song out", saying, "first of all, I didn't think anybody would play it. I didn't think it would get on the air, but sure enough it did",
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WXBX, a country station in Johnson City, Tennessee, devoted one morning show to a listener discussion of Nelson's release, concluding that "the audience was disappointed in " and, as Nelson thought, that they "probably wouldn't be interested in much airplay". PlanetOut offered the opinion that
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This song obviously has special meaning to me in more ways than one. I want people to know more than anything—gay, straight, whatever—just how cool Willie is and ... his way of thinking, his tolerance, everything about him.
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comic strip on 27 and 28 February and mentioned until March 2006. According to Sublette, "the Monday and Tuesday strip consisted of my lyrics and dramatizing listeners' response to my lyrics. What a compliment!"
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s country singles chart and marking the end of Brooks' string of top ten hits. Nelson's song has been lumped together with contemporaneous LGBT-friendly country releases: his and
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called Boots and Saddles. He explains, "Gay life in 1981 was very vibrant in those days. It was part of the culture of the city and cowboy imagery is a part of
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Hot 100 chart, which Nelson last appeared on with the Toby Keith duet "Beer for My Horses". The song was also well received by critics.
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ago, when the hippie thing come out and I started growin' my hair and puttin' the earring in, I got a little flak here and there.
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Nelson appeared on the movie's soundtrack with the traditional "He Was a Friend of Mine", which made the US charts at number 54.
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for 20 years. The timing's right for it to come out. I'm just opening the door." The song's release was encouraged by the
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funniest goddamn song I'd ever heard. I had it on the bus for 20 years, and people would come in and I'd play it. When
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of his friend and tour manager of thirty years, David Anderson, two years prior. Says Anderson:
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There were plans to release the song on a future album and filming for the video featuring
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Nelson's version of the song is his highest charting solo single since his 1984 duet with
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When the song appeared as the penultimate track on Nelson's 2009 compilation
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come out, it just seemed like a good time to kick it out of the closet."
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fad while living with his wife in Manhattan next to a gay country bar on
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and suggests that, in addition to other causes, he supports gay rights.
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Sublette stated that the song is based on his experiences growing up in
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though not on country stations: "Oh no, they're not gonna play it".
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Nelson also says that he has received very few negative reactions:
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Nelson himself described the release in a prepared statement to
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occurred at Dallas' gay cowboy bar, the Round Up Saloon (in
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Index

Cowboys are Frequently, Secretly Fond of Each Other

Latin
Ned Sublette
lilting
waltz
stereotypes
cowboys
gay
lyrics
western wear
leather subculture
GPS
alternative country
Lost Dakotas
Cargo
queercore
Pansy Division
Pile Up
cover
Willie Nelson
mainstream country
Orville Peck
Portales, New Mexico
Urban Cowboy
Christopher Street
gay iconography
Gay USA

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