Red Steagall
2005 WMA Hall of Fame Member

The entertainment career of Red Steagall has covered a period of more than 35 years and has spanned the globe from Australia to the Middle East, to South America and to the Far East. He has performed for heads of state including a special party for President Reagan at the White House in 1983, and has completed three overseas tours for the United States Information Agency to the Middle East, the Far East, and South America. He has performed an average of 200 days per year over the past 30 years, including over 100 major rodeo performances and an equal number of major fair appearances. His career has not been limited to music, and The Texas State Legislature named Red Steagall The Official Cowboy Poet of Texas in April of1991. In 2005, the legislature named him the 2006 Poet Laureate of the State of Texas.

Steagall has had over 200 of his compositions recorded, by himself and by other artists. He has written the title song for the National Finals Rodeo telecast as well as songs for the following movies: Vanishing Point, Drive-In, Shadows on the Wall, Savannah Smiles, and Dark Before Dawn. 26 of his records have appeared on the national charts, and he has released a total of twenty albums. He has appeared on national television numerous times, presenting Western music to vast audiences.

Red has five times won the Wrangler Award for original music from the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City. The first time in 1993 for his Warner Western album, BORN TO THIS LAND, next in 1995 for the Warner Western album, FAITH AND VALUES , the third time in 1997 for his Warner Western album, DEAR MAMA, I’M A COWBOY, and his fourth project with Warner Western, LOVE OF THE WEST, in August of 1999. In the fall of 2002, Red released his 20th album, entitled WAGON TRACKS, a multi-generational journey from the shores of Ireland across frontier America, as told in story and song. This latest album also won the Wrangler Award from the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum.

In April of 1994, Red launched his one hour syndicated radio show, COWBOY CORNER <http://www.cowboycorner.com/> , on 170 stations in 43 states. COWBOY CORNER <http://www.cowboycorner.com/> celebrates the lifestyle of the American West through the poems, songs and stories of the American cowboy. In recognition of Red Steagall’s significant contribution to the Western way of life, he was inducted into the Texas Trail of Fame in October 1999. Bronze inlaid markers have been placed throughout the walkway of the Fort Worth Stockyards National Historic District, where Red’s marker proudly joins other inductees Gene Autry, Charles Goodnight, Quanah Parker, and Roy Rogers to name a few.

In April of 2003, Red was officially inducted into the Hall of Great Westerners at the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, the national museum's highest honor.

Although Red Steagall is well known for his wonderful Texas Swing dance music, such as "Lone Star Beer and Bob Wills Music," Red is beloved by Texas cowboys for the quiet times they have spent with him around chuck wagon campfires. In their opinion, Red Steagall's best music has never been heard by the public. And, if you ask Red where his favorite place to play music is, he might say some famous stage in Nashville, California, Spain, or Germany - or he might say some lonesome cow camp in West Texas