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LeDoux will always be known in country music as the real cowboy. Chris was a professional bareback rodeo rider/wrangler
for most of his life, winning countless national championships and titles. LeDoux wrote and performed his music "on the side"
for many years selling a couple of thousands units through a private label for many years. Though LeDoux had been offered
professional recording contracts by the big names he ademently refused. LeDoux held this stance untill 1982 when Garth Brooks
spoke of LeDoux in one of his #1 hits "Much to Young to Feel This Damn Old". LeDoux was offered a recording contract with
Capital records that he could not refuse. LeDoux shortly after released his first and only top ten hit "Whatcha Gonna Do With
a Cowboy", which has been redone by another current artist. LeDoux held a very steady fan base , releasing one more album
that contained great songs such as "This Cowboys Hat", "Life Is a Highway", and "Caddilac Ranch", which had been re-done by
Sammy Kershaw. In all LeDoux released 22 professionally recorded songs before his death from liver cancer in 2005. LeDouxs'
signature song and my favorite is "This Cowboys Hat", because it really tells a story of a real cowboy and his real cowboy
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