Orville Peck (L) and particular visitor Willie Nelson carry out “Cowboys Are Regularly, Secretly Keen on Every Different” reside collectively for the primary time on the 2024 Austin Metropolis Limits Music Pageant at Zilker Park on 13 October, 2024 in Austin, Texas. (Gary Miller/FilmMagic)
Nation famous person Willie Nelson, 91, has sung his homosexual cowboy anthem with Orville Peck reside for the primary time.
Homosexual masked cowboy Peck, who has labored with Trixie Mattel, Kylie Minogue and Elton John, carried out “Cowboys Are Secretly, Regularly Keen on Every Different” alongside Nelson on the Austin Metropolis Limits Music Pageant, in Texas, on Sunday (13 October).
The tune, a couple of homosexual romance, was launched to coincide with hit movie Brokeback Mountain storming the Oscars in 2006 – the identical 12 months it was first performed on US radio, regardless of being written 25 years earlier.
Peck instructed festival-goers that the anthem impressed his album Stampede. “Somebody requested me if I needed to do a duet with him, and he’s from proper right here in Texas,” he instructed the cheering crowd.
Human rights supporter Nelson initially launched the anthem to assist his supervisor David Anderson, who had come out in 2004.
Anderson mentioned: “This tune clearly has particular that means to me in additional methods than one. I would like individuals to know greater than something – homosexual, straight, no matter – simply how cool Willie is and … his mind-set, his tolerance, every part about him.”
Nelson’s model of “He Was A Good friend of Mine” options on the Brokeback Mountain soundtrack. The movie received three Academy Awards, together with the coveted greatest director gong for Ang Lee.
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