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    Willie Nelson joins Orville Peck’s ACL set for a gay cowboy serenade

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    At the Austin City Limits Music Festival on Sunday, Willie Nelson performed the gay cowboy anthem “Cowboys Are Frequently Secretly Fond of Each Other” with rising star Orville Peck. The song inspired Peck’s 2024 duet album “Stampede,” he said at ACL Fest.

    “Someone asked me if I wanted to do a duet with him, and he’s here from Texas,” Peck said. The crowd’s cheers began to rise as the Austin country music legend took the stage. Peck performed the song last year at Willie’s 90th birthday celebration at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles, but “we’ve never performed the song live together before,” he said.

    Peck took charge of the vocals while Willie sang support, the power of his presence pushing Peck to new heights. The crowd roared as the song came to an end. As the red-haired stranger left the stage, a chant of “Willie! Willie! Willie!” exploded through the crowd. Peck beamed across the sweltering field.

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    This isn’t the first time Willie Nelson has serenaded gay cowboys

    Nelson, who bought a tape of Ned Sublette’s original in the mid-’80s, first covered the song in 2006, around the same time the movie “Brokeback Mountain” was generating Oscar buzz. Willie’s song “He Was a Friend of Mine” is featured on the soundtrack. He debuted the song on the “Howard Stern Show” on Valentine’s Day that year.

    He released the song in part in support of his manager, David Anderson, who had recently revealed that he was gay.

    “This song obviously has special meaning to me in more ways than one,” Anderson told the Dallas Morning News at the time. “I want people to know more than anything – gay, straight, whatever – how cool Willie is and… his way of thinking, his tolerance, everything about him.”

    Nelson has long been an advocate of gay rights

    As calls for marriage equality grew louder in the mid-2010s, Willie Nelson raised his voice in support of the cause.

    “I never thought about marriage being only for men and women. Gay people should be as miserable as the rest of us (laughs). Love does not discriminate, nor should it be discriminated against,” he told Seattle publication The Stranger just before the marriage equality amendment passed in 2015.

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    Nelson has long been an advocate of all human rights, but the issue of gay rights is personal to him. Willie’s cousin, Michael Fletcher, son of his brother and best friend Bobbie Nelson, was a gay man who died at the height of the AIDS epidemic in 1989. The siblings dedicated the 1996 gospel album “How Great Thou Art” to Michael on.

    Willie Nelson is in town for the 50th anniversary of ‘Austin City Limits’

    Willie, who reshaped our city with his iconoclastic approach to music, is in town to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the date he recorded the first episode of the festival’s television show of the same name on October 17, 1974. “ACL” will celebrate this in a big way. party on the Long Center Lawn this week. Free tickets for the public were allocated through a lottery, and for music fans who missed the passes, there will be a livestream on aclturns50.com at 7 p.m.

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