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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 (eighteen years ago) link

i wonder if someone brought willie the song.

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

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

He will probably be assassinated.

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

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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

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

Cowboys.

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

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

pansy division covered it too

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

For shits and giggles:

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

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

Hahaha

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

thanks so much

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

Mercury Rev has a version too

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

So do The Byrds.

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

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

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

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

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 (eighteen years ago) link

i really think it does, A

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

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