Honest, forthright, and able to go the distance. LeDoux was always known as what the rest of us want cowboys to be. Know for high energy shows, Brooks says he modeled them after seeing a LeDoux show in California. Garth Brooks has always given credit to Chris Ledoux for his live shows. When the Brooks song mentioned him it changed everything. Ledoux had been making records and singing for years around the rodeo circuit. Champion bareback rider, bronze sculptor and musician. Here is one of my favorite Ledoux tunes called “This Cowboy hat”Ĭhris Ledoux was the real deal my friends. Well that shot Ledoux’s name out there into the great big music universe.
You remember the lyric right, everybody that was alive in 1989 does, “An wore out tape of Chris Ledoux, lonely women and bad booze, seem to be the only friends i have left at all”. Rodeo folks knew the name Chris Ledoux long before Garth Brooks made it a household name in his song “Much too young(to feel this damn old)”.
