David S. Irvin’s Positively Parker County
Red and Gail Steagall
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About Irvin
PA R K E R C O U N T Y T O D AY
David S. Irvin, The Portrait Photographers,
is nationally recognized photographer.
Irvin has photographed six presidents and
a variety of celebrities, including Garth
Brooks and Nolan Ryan. He has also been
recognized by Kodak as one of the top 25
photographers in
the United States.
Irvin photographs
notable families
in the Fort Worth
area who have ties
to area businesses.
To see additional
photos by David S.
Irvin, visit
www.dsirvin.com
DECEMBER 2016
ed Steagall’s career as a musician and entertainer began after he battled polio as a
teenager and started playing the mandolin as therapy. His career has spanned more
than four decades and has crossed 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 Ronald Reagan at the White House in 1983 — and played three overseas tours.
As a native Texan, Red Steagall enjoyed a career in Agricultural Chemistry after
graduating from West Texas A&M University with a degree in Animal Science and
Agronomy. He then spent eight years working as a music industry executive in Hollywood,
Calif., and has spent the last 37 years as a recording artist, songwriter and television and
motion picture personality. The Steagalls currently live on a ranch in Parker County where
in addition to his entertainment activities they are involved in numerous horse-related
interests.
Although Steagall is best known for his Texas Swing dance music and compositions
that include, “Here We Go Again,” “Party Dolls and Wine,” “Freckles Brown,” and “Lone Star
Beer and Bob Wills Music,” he is also beloved by Texas cowboys for the quiet times they
have spent with him around chuck wagon campfires. In their opinion, the public has
never heard Steagall’s best music.
If you ask Red where his favorite place to play music is, he might say The White
House, some famous stage in Nashville, California, Spain, or Germany — or he might say
at some lonesome cow camp in Texas.
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