Updated 05-May-2020.
Mondo shtuff from around the internet, all about CHRIS LEDOUX!
My botty best at summarizing from Wikipedia: Chris LeDoux (October 2, 1948 – March 9, 2005) was an american country music singer-songwriter, bronze sculptor, and hall of fame rodeo champion . he recorded 36 albums which have sold more than six LeDoux’s father was in the US Air Force and was stationed at Keesler Air Force Base at the time of his birth . he learned to ride horses while visiting his grandparents on their Wyoming farm . LeDoux married peggy Rhoads on January 4, 1972 . they had five children: Clay, Ned, Will, Beau, and Cindy . to help pay his expenses while traveling the country, he began in 1976 LeDoux won the world bareback riding championship . he continued competing for the next four years . leDoux continued to write and record his songs . by 1982 he had sold more than 250,000 copies of his albums, with little or no marketing . he shot to national prominence when he was mentioned in Garth Brooks’ Top 10 country hit “Much Too Young ( leDoux’s follow-up album, Whatcha Gonna Do with a Cowboy, reached the Top 10 . the title track became his first and only Top 10 country single, reaching No. 7 in 1992 . for the RIAA certified two gold and one platinum recordings for leDoux . on February 22, 1993, the single “Whatcha Gonna Do with a Cowboy” went gold . the album The Best of Chris LeDoux Garth Brooks volunteered to donate part of his liver, but it was incompatible . an alternative donor was located, and LeDoux received a transplant on October 7, 2000 . after his recovery he released two additional albums leDoux was the first person to be inducted in two categories, for his bareback riding and in the “notables” category “for his contributions to the sport through his music” in 2004, the Academy of Country Music awarded “Garth Brooks performed the song on “the 39th Annual CMA Awards” on November 15, 2005 . leDoux was honored with the CMA chairman’s Award of Merit . friends have collaborated to produce an the art show features sculpture and sketches that leDoux completed for friends . none of his works were ever officially exhibited before his death . to mark the second anniversary of LeDoux’s death, Capitol Records released six CDs the city in which LeDoux attended college, casper, Wyoming, celebrates leDoux each November . the weekend event includes an art show featuring a number of his works, a rodeo and a country music “Chris LeDoux”. In The Encyclopedia of Country Music. Paul Kingsbury, Editor. New York: Oxford University Press. “Gold Buckle Dreams: The Rodeo Life of Chris LeDoux”. wolverine gallery. Archived from the original on March 14, 2005. Obituary by Peter Cooper, The Tennessean, March 10, 2005 “Chris LeDoux”. Find a Grave. Retrieved March 7, 2015.