Red Steagall

Western Music & Cowboy Poetry

Red Steagall has had many years of experience in the recording business, and it really shows in this album. Red's work is based on what he calls, "frontier-type sound," and his selection for producer of this collection is Steve Gibson, a man who loves acoustic music and understands it and bluegrass harmonies, the kind of harmonies cowboys used to listen to. The songs are produced elegantly and simply, without the unnecessary extra studio fill-in music that so many producers, especially the Nashville types, seem to think are necessary.
Steagall has included both songs and poems on this album. The poems are all his own. Red's poetry is well written, and his message is pure cowboy. Several of these songs were written by Steagall - "The Wagon Tongue," "One Empty Cot In The Bunkhouse," "When The Cimarron Was Red and On The Rise." He Has recorded these songs before, but this Warner Western release is a chance for him to expose some of his best work to millions of people. And, because his work is so authentically cowboy, Steagall has included a glossary of tewmas to instruct the uneducated about such words as soddie, remuda, string, hot roll, leggings, coosie, hoodlum, gut hooks, etc.
He's also recorded a couple tracks written by others. "Dust" and "Dodge City" were written by Bob Morrison and Eric Emerson. And Red teamed up with Rich O'Brien to write "Fort Phantom Hill," and with Luke Reed and Billy Jo Foster on "Panhandle Wind."
This album is pure Steagall - simple, classic, and good.

-Cowboy Magazine Review - Fall 1993

Born To This Land ~ Cowboy Poetry: by Red Steagall

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Songs include:

Panhandle Wind
Born To This Land
The Wagon Tongue
Comanche Moon
Dust
One More Lick
Dodge City
Ride For The Brand
When The Cimarron Was Red And On The Rise
Fort Phantom Hill
One Empty Cot In The Bunkhouse

CD: $15.95