SONG LIST:

BAD BRAHMA BULL
BALLAD OF WILL ROGERS, THE
BAREBACK JACK
BLUE BONNET BLUES
BLUE EYES AND FRECKLES
BORN IN MISSISSIPPI
BORN TO FOLLOW RODEO
BUCKING MACHINE, THE
BULL RIDER
CALL OF THE WILD
COPENHAGEN
COUNTY FAIR
COWBOY AND THE HIPPIE, THE
COWBOY SONGS
COWBOY'S GOT TO RIDE, A
COWCAMP BLUES
DIRT AND SWEAT COWBOY
EVEN COWBOYS LIKE A LITTLE ROCK 'N' ROLL
FEELING COMES BACK, THE
FOURTH OF JULY RODEOS
FREEDOM AIN'T FREE
FREEDOM, JUST A STATE OF MIND
GET ALONG LITTLE DOGGIES
GRANGE HALL DANCE
GREATEST PRIZE, THE
HARD TIMES
HE RIDES THE WILD HORSES
HIPPIES IN CALGARY
HOKA HAY, LAKOTAS
HOME GROWN WESTERN SATURDAY NIGHT
HOMETOWN COWBOY
HOOKED ON AN EIGHT SECOND RIDE
I BELIEVE IN AMERICA
I CAN'T RIDE THE BRONCS ANYMORE
I DON'T WANT TO BE A COUNTRY STAR
I GOT YOU
I'M COUNTRY
I'VE GOT TO BE A RODEO MAN
IT AIN'T THE YEARS, IT'S THE MILES
JOHN ED SANG COWPOKE
JOHNSON COUNTY WAR
JUST ENOUGH MONEY HONEY
LADY IS DANCING WITH ME, THE
LAST SUNSET, THE
LEAN, MEAN AND HUNGRY
LITTLE JOE THE WRANGLER
LITTLE LONG HAIRED OUTLAW
LONE RANGER
LOOK AT YOU GIRL
MELODIES AND MEMORIES
MIGHTY LUCKY MAN
MOUNTAIN WILD MAN
NATIONAL FINALS
NEW BREED
NOT FOR HEROES
OLD JAKE
OLD PAINT
OLD TIMER, THE
OUR FIRST YEAR
PAINT ME BACK HOME IN WYOMING
PASSENGER, THE
PHOTO FINISH
POWDER RIVER HOME
RAINBOW RIDER
REAL THING, THE
RIDING FOR A FALL
RODEO HAND, THE
RODEO LIFE
RODEO ROSE
RODEO, YOU'VE CAST A SPELL
RUNNING THROUGH THE RAIN
RUSTY SPURS
SEVENTEEN
SO YOU WANT TO BE A COWBOY
SONG OF THE YUKON ROSE
SONS OF THE PIONEERS
STAMPEDE
STRAWBERRY ROAN
TAKE ME BACK TO OLD WYOMING
TAKE ME TO THE RODEO
THEM BAREBACK HORSES
THEY COULDN'T UNDERSTAND MY COWBOY SONGS
THIRTY DOLLAR COWBOY
TIE A KNOT IN THE DEVIL'S TAIL
TIME
TOO TOUGH TO DIE
UTAH TRIBUTE
WESTERN SKIES
WHAT MORE COULD A COWBOY NEED
WHEN THE RODEO COMES TO TOWN
WHERE IS THE GLORY
WILD AND WOOLY
WILD BUNCH RIDES AGAIN, THE
WORKING COWBOY BLUES
WORKING MAN'S DOLLAR
WYOMING GIRL
YELLOW STUD, THE
YOU BRING OUT THE BEAST IN ME

CHRIS LEDOUX

Chris Ledoux is an American original: a legendary country music singer/songwriter, an accomplished bronze sculptor and a rodeo champion. During his career, LeDoux recorded thirty-six albums, most of which he released on his own American Cowboy Songs record label. LeDoux was real. He represented the iconic ideal of the all-American cowboy and the modern spirit of the American frontier.

Born in Biloxi, MS, LeDoux moved around as a child as his father's U.S. Air Force career dictated but spent time with his grandparents on their Wyoming farm, where he learned to ride horses. By age thirteen, LeDoux had participated in his first rodeo competition and began winning those in which he rode. Once his family was settled in Cheyenne, LeDoux competed in rodeo events throughout his high school years and twice took the title of Wyoming State Rodeo Championship for Bareback Riding. He attended Casper College on a rodeo scholarship he'd earned and won the Intercollegiate National Bareback Riding Championship his junior year.

By 1970, LeDoux was a professional rodeo cowboy competing on the national circuit. He began writing songs about his life on the road. Within two years, he'd created a start-up record label (American Cowboys Songs) with his dad, recorded songs in a friend's basement and began selling his homemade albums out of the back of his truck at rodeo events. LeDoux's pedigree as a rodeo cowboy was authentic; when he won the World Bareback Riding Championship at the National Rodeo Finals in Oklahoma City in 1976, his status was undeniable, even to those outside the world of rodeo. But just as he wrote about in his songs, life as a rodeo cowboy competing on the road causes a lot of wear and tear on a man. In 1980, LeDoux retired from the competitive rodeo circuit and moved home to the ranch he and his family called home in Kaycee, Wyoming.

LeDoux continued writing and recording songs and began performing live; his concerts were huge events, complete with fireworks and a mechanical bull he'd ride during the course of the show. The quiet cowboy had successfully self-managed an award-winning rodeo career and a musical career. He was beloved by the rodeo community but not well-known to those outside the rodeo and country music world. All that changed when the biggest name ever to come out of country music name-dropped his rodeo hero in a song lyric; when Garth Brooks sang "Much Too Young (To Feel This Damn Old)" a whole new generation and audience was introduced to Chris LeDoux.

With the attention garnered by Brooks' tribute to LeDoux, LeDoux signed with Liberty Records (a subsidiary of Capitol) and released his first national album. The title track, "Whatcha Gonna Do With A Cowboy" was released as a duet between Brooks and his mentor and became LeDoux's first (and only) Top Ten country single. Over the next ten years, LeDoux continued to write and record, releasing albums on a national level; he even began recording songs written by other people when the lyrics' message resonated.

In 2000 LeDoux received a liver transplant having suffered from a profound liver disease the cause of which is still unknown. LeDoux recovered and continued to release new music but in 2005, LeDoux's medical woes returned and he died due to complications brought on by cancer of the bile duct and liver. He was just 56 years old.

LeDoux's legacy is that of an independent, grounded, genuine cowboy and poet. LeDoux was inducted into the ProRodeo Hall of Fame, the Rodeo Hall of Fame at the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum and the post-humous recipient of the Acadamy of Country Music's Pioneer Award.

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For more information on the life and career of Chris LeDoux, please visit The Official Chris LeDoux Website at www.chrisledoux.com

MPCA is proud to own all of the songs in the Chris LeDoux comprehensive catalogue.