TV & Film
Red Steagall's In The Bunkhouse comes to RFD-TV
By JOE LEYDON
Red Steagall, America’s favorite cowboy singer and storyteller, will do double duty as entertainer and interviewer for In the Bunkhouse, a weekly “cowboy variety” series premiering Nov. 4 on the RFD-TV network. Cowboys & Indians takes great pride in presenting the half-hour program, which will air at 1 and 11 p.m. EST Wednesdays on RFD.
“I call the show ‘cowboy variety,’” Steagall says, “because that’s what it is, the best in all things cowboy – music, interviews, poetry, chuck wagon cooking, and a little bit of good old American wisdom in every episode.”
Red and The Boys in the Bunkhouse
Each week, Steagall promises, “I’ll share coffee with the men and women who keep our beloved cowboy culture alive.” Veteran actor Barry Corbin – whose film and TV credits include Lonesome Dove, Urban Cowboy, No Country for Old Men, Northern Exposure and the forthcoming That Evening Sun – will appear on the Nov. 4 premiere episode. Future Bunkhouse guests include Robert Fuller (Laramie, Wagon Train) and James Drury (The Virginian).
Steagall, host of the syndicated radio show Cowboy Corner and long-time columnist for Cowboys & Indians, is the official Cowboy Poet of Texas, a former Texas Poet Laureate, and a chart-topping singer, musician and songwriter. Touring at least 200 days annually for well over 30 years, he has appeared in concert throughout the United States, as well as in Europe, the Far East, South America, and the Middle East. More than 200 of his songs have been recorded by artists as diverse as Dean Martin, Roy Clarke and Ray Charles. In 1974, he “discovered” Reba McEntire at the Oklahoma State Fair, and later helped her record her first demo tape in Nashville.
“No other performer has done what Red has been able to do throughout his career,” says Gregory L. Brown, publisher of Cowboys & Indians. “He is a legend, a gentleman, pure and simple. And (In the Bunkhouse) celebrates the values that so many people in this country have forgotten, or never learned. Red leads us, not backwards, but back to the future – where, hopefully, honesty, integrity, and hard work once again rule the day.”
In the Bunkhouse is produced at KTBU/Channel 55, the Houston-based television station and state-of-the-art production facility owned and operated by USFR Media Group. “We are very pleased with the high level of quality achieved in this production,” says Brown. “And it is even more gratifying to be celebrating the cowboy lifestyle in this exceptional television series.”
Now in its tenth year of broadcasting, RFD-TV is the nation’s first
24-hour television network dedicated to serving the needs and interests of rural America. The channel currently is distributed to over 40 million homes worldwide by DBS and cable systems including DISH Network, DirecTV, Comcast, Time-Warner and over 600 independent rural cable systems. For more information about RFD-TV, check out the network’s website at www.rfdtv.com. To learn more about the show, visit www.inthebunkhouse.com . For more on Red Steagall, visit www.redsteagall.com.
