Who is chris ledoux

And the best part? He lived everything he ever sang about. And it worked. Shortly after completing the album in the summer of , LeDoux was diagnosed with primary sclerosing cholangitis, a rare and debilitating liver ailment.

When he discovered he needed a new liver, Garth Brooks offered part of his own, but was found to be an unsuitable donor. He underwent a liver transplant in October , and though false rumours of his death surfaced shortly thereafter, his recovery had apparently been complete and he was back out on the road working just as energetically as previously. However, in late he began undergoing radiation treatment for cancer of the bile ducts, and he passed away on March 9, Chris LeDoux will always be considered one of the most influential artists of country music.

Superstars like Garth Brooks and Toby Keith, who performed a duet with LeDoux called Copenhagen in the early s, cite him as a huge influence on their music, and artists like Charlie Daniels, Johnny Gimble, and Janie Fricke have appeared on his records. He is also considered a monumental figure in the world of rodeo.

The day is the last Saturday during Cheyenne Frontier Days, a well-known rodeo event. It would instead be for his strong belief that family always comes first. He settled on a ranch in Kaycee, WY, but kept up his songwriting and recording and developed an increasingly large following as well as a reputation for exciting concerts. By , he'd sold over , copies of his self-released albums, of which he completed 22 by the end of the '80s.

LeDoux had long refused to sign a record deal, valuing his independence more, but when rising superstar Garth Brooks name-checked him on the hit "Much Too Young To Feel This Damn Old ," the attention was too much to resist. LeDoux signed with Capitol subsidiary Liberty and released his national debut, Western Underground , in Though he hasn't had another single that big, LeDoux recorded steadily for Liberty through the '90s, and all of his albums -- 's Under This Old Hat , 's Haywire , 's Stampede , 's Live , and 's One Road Man -- made the country Top 40, selling well to LeDoux 's extensive fan base.

He recovered and returned to music with the more personal album After the Storm in LeDoux released Horsepower in It would be his last completed album before he died of complications from liver cancer in March of AllMusic relies heavily on JavaScript. Please enable JavaScript in your browser to use the site fully.

Blues Classical Country. Electronic Folk International. Jazz Latin New Age. During his all-too-short 56 years of life, LeDoux was indeed a rare breed. The young Chris put pen to paper often.

Poem after poem reflected his love of rodeo and of a young girl, Peggy, who would become his wife and bear him five children. His sense of humor and self-deprecating manner were constants even in the most painful of times.

This Wyoming, and rodeo, hero outshined them all. A practical joke player extraordinaire, who would not intentionally hurt even the squirrels on the golf course, Chris will forever be thought of with a certain amount of reverence in these parts.

He was world champion professional bareback rider in When speaking about that accomplishment LeDoux chuckled recalling his bounty. The boots are worn out. I still have the saddle and the buckle. His stage act came to represent a rodeo complete with mechanical bull, pyrotechnics, and pulsating energy that kept standing-room-only crowds on their feet for two hours — always howling for more.