Red Steagall

Russell "Red" Steagall (born December 22, 1938) is an American country music singer, musician, poet, and stage performer, who focuses on American Western and country music genres.

Early life and day jobs He was born in Gainesville, Texas, United States. He became a bull rider at rodeos while he was still a teenager, but at the age of 15, he was stricken with polio.

Steagall is also the official Cowboy Poet Laureate of San Juan Capistrano, California.

Since 1991, Steagall has hosted the annual Red Steagall Cowboy Gathering in the Stockyards National Historic District of Fort Worth. The event features a ranch rodeo, chuckwagon cookoff, children's poetry contest, Western swing dances, cowboy music and poetry, a trappings show, and horsemanship clinics.

In 1999, Steagall was inducted into the Texas Trail of Fame.

In April 2003, Steagall was inducted into the Hall of Great Westerners at the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, joining the likes of Will Rogers, Theodore Roosevelt, Charles Goodnight, and Charlie Russell.

In January 2004, Steagall received the Spirit of Texas Award and was inducted into the Texas Cowboy Hall of Fame in Fort Worth.

In April 2005, he was inducted to the Texas Rodeo Cowboy Hall of Fame in Belton.

He was named "2006 Poet Laureate of the State of Texas" at the Capital in Austin in the spring of 2005. Steagall is the first "cowboy" poet to be named the poet laureate of Texas.

In 2007, he was inducted into the National Multicultural Western Heritage Museum in Fort Worth, Texas.

He was named the 2023 Legend of ProRodeo.

In 2025, he was awarded the Ken Stemler Pioneer Award.

Red Steagall Institute for Traditional Western Arts In 2024, the National Ranching Heritage Center in Lubbock, Texas, announced the forthcoming location at the center of the Red Steagall Institute for Traditional Western Arts, which will feature interactive classes and displays for the public to learn about Western culture. The Texas Tech System Board of Regents approved the NRHC's $42 million dollar expansion in May 2024. Jim Bret Campbell, executive director of the NRHC, said that the project comes after Steagall and his wife sought a location to donate his collection of Western songs, poetry, and various radio and television recordings of his programs.

Discography Albums Year Album US Country Label 1972 Party Dolls and Wine — Capitol 1973 Somewhere My Love 42 If You've Got the Time, I've Got the Song — 1974 Finer Things in Life 47 1976 Lone Star Beer and Bob Wills Music 27 ABC/Dot Texas Red 36 1977 For All Our Cowboy Friends — 1978 Hang On Feelin'''

1979

Tractor 1982

Delta 1986

Dot/MCA 1993

1995

1996

Eagle 1997

1999

2002

Shanachie 2006

2007

2011 Dreamin' of.....When The Grass Was Still Deep'' — Bunkhouse Press

Singles Year Single Chart Positions Album US Country CAN Country 1972 "Party Dolls and Wine" 31 — Party Dolls and Wine "Somewhere, My Love" 22 65 Somewhere My Love 1973 "True Love" 51 80 "If You've Got the Time" 41 — If You've Got the Time,I've Got the Song "The Fiddle Man" 87 — 1974 "This Just Ain't My Day (For Lettin' Darlin' Down)" 93 — single only "I Gave Up Good Mornin' Darling" 54 — Finer Things in Life "Finer Things in Life" 52 — "Someone Cares for You" 17 17 1975 "She Worshipped Me" 62 — single only 1976 "Lone Star Beer and Bob Wills Music" 11 — Lone Star Beer and Bob Wills Music "Truck Drivin' Man" 29 10 "Rosie (Do You Wanna Talk It Over)" 45 — Texas Red 1977 "Her L-O-V-E's Gone" 59 — "I Left My Heart in San Francisco" 53 — "Freckles Brown" 90 — For All Our Cowboy Friends "The Devil Ain't a Lonely Woman's Friend" 72 — ''Hang On Feelin''' 1978 "Hang On Feelin'" 63 — "Bob's Got a Swing Band in Heaven" flip — 1979 "Good Time Charlie's Got the Blues" 41 — singles only 1980 "3 Chord Country Song" 31 — "Dim the Lights and Pour the Wine" 49 — "Hard Hat Days and Honky Tonk Nights" 30 —