The award-winning performers plays the Galveston County Fair & Rodeo with Jason Boland & the Stragglers on Friday night.
Bagwell’s shelf full of hardware is that much more impressive because it comes in a genre that can be less than hospitable to female artists; and because each of her five releases, beginning with 2011 LP “Banned In New Mexico,” was recorded and released without any label support. In 2015, “My Boots” was the only single by a female artist to reach the Texas chart’s pole position that year. “In My Defense” sent four singles to No.
“The amount of young girls that have come up to me, especially this last year, and said that I am maybe the reason that they wanted to pursue a career in Texas country, or the reason that they’re in the scene, or that I inspire them — it’s been kind of mind-blowing, because I don't really think of myself as that,” she says.
“Obviously a handful of us have been at it for a long time,” she says. “I told my dad if I do nothing else, if I can maybe be part of the reason that there are more females, then that’s what I consider a successful career.”
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