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Music and rodeo have always been two constants in Red Stegall’s life. Growing up in a large Texas family, Stegall was immersed in western swing music and rodeo entertainment. In college, he started a band to supplement his tuition and pay entry fees for bull riding. After graduating with a degree in Animal Husbandry and Agronomy, Stegall worked for five years in agricultural chemistry before being pulled back into music.

He formed the Coleman County Cowboys group and started playing rodeos and fairs across the country. Rodeo and the culture of the Southwest prevailed in his songwriting and music, earning him the moniker “The King of Texas Swing.” If you ask him, he will tell you that “I think probably the most important stage of my career was the years I spent working rodeos in the 1

970s and 1980s. I worked nearly all the major rodeos in some capacity, and it was my family. Those cowboys would ride the bus with us, and we would party together, we laughed together, we cried together. I pulled a few ropes on the back of the chutes, and they were my family and still are.”

Through a career that has spanned five decades, Stegall has performed across the country and the globe for heads of state and regular folk. With over 200 titles and 24 albums to his credit, Steagall is the ultimate entertainer. He has appeared on television as both a singer and a rodeo commentator, produced radio shows, and performed in the motion pictures.

Stegall served as one of the original Board of Trustees for the ProRodeo Hall of Champions – as the Hall of Fame was known then. And has served on many boards since. He has been inducted into the Texas Rodeo Cowboy Hall of Fame (2004) and into the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Center’s Hall of Great Westerners (2003). He continues to support the Western lifestyle with his The Red Steagall Cowboy Gathering in the Stockyards Historic District of Fort Worth. This event features a ranch rodeo, cookoffs, poetry contests, horsemanship clinics, and swing dances.