Red Steagall

As a songwriter Red Steagall has been responsible for over 200 compositions, and has enjoyed his share of chart action in the 1970s plus a few major hits. And as a singer of Western songs as well as an author of poetry about the West, he is one of modern music's cowboy balladeers. Steagall had his first success as a songwriter in 1967, when Ray Charles recorded his Here We Go Again

Steagall was performing at the National Rodeo Finals in Oklahoma City in 1974 when he spotted a young singer named Reba McEntire who was appearing with her family. He got her to record a demo which resulted in her being signed to a recording contract while still in her teens.

He has made Western recordings with his band, the Coleman County Boys, and his poems were also to become extremely popular. In 1991, the Texas legislature voted Steagall the Official Cowboy Poet of Texas. Subsequently Steagall has recorded numerous Western albums.

Red Steagall

Here We Go Again Red Steagall £9.99