Shotgun Red Nashville 1983 Tapestry

Shotgun Red is a puppet best known as a co-host for the television talk show Nashville Now, a country music talk show that aired from 1983 to 1993 on The Nashville Network. Often appearing alongside the show's host, Ralph Emery, Shotgun Red was performed by Steve Hall, a musician, comedian, and voice artist from Sheldon, Iowa. The puppet, best recognized for his large gray mustache and straw cowboy hat, was discovered by Hall in 1980 in a Minnesota hobby shop, where he bought it for forty dollars. Hall and Shotgun "crashed" Ralph Emery's local morning TV show, and Emery fell in love with the puppet and later made him his co-host on Nashville Now. The puppet's popularity led to the duo releasing two albums, Ralph & Red: Songs for Children.