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Interesting Questions, Facts and Information
- There are a total of 30 general entries.
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 Interesting Questions, Facts, and Information
 Ledoux, Chris
Much Too Young (To Feel This Damn Old). Worn out tape of Chris Ledoux, lonely women and bad booze.
Liver. He was suffering from Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis, the same disease that killed football great Walter Payton.
22. A lot of these have been re-released since.
Watcha Gonna Do With a Cowboy. He recorded it with Garth Brooks.
Mississippi. Born in Biloxi, Mississippi then moved to Texas before settling in in Wyoming.
Sculpture. At Casper College he made a bronze of a bronco rider which gave him great acclaim at the time.
Professional Rodeo Cowboy's Association.
Oct. 2, 1948. He was born in Biloxi, Mississippi to Alfred and Bonnie LeDoux. Chris' Dad was in the Air Force, so they moved around a lot, even living in France for a time.
Bareback Jack. A song about a cowboy being banged up and still wanting to ride.
Kaycee, Wyoming. He built a log cabin near here.
Gold Buckle Dreams. This book was written before Chris made it big in the music business.
1976. At the National Finals Rodeo when it was still held in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. In 1964 he won the Little Britches Rodeo Bareback World Championship.
Omaha, Nebraska. He had a disease called Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis, which leads to cirrhosis of liver. Walter Payton died of the same disease a couple of years ago.
22. He recorded them in his parents' basement and sold over 250,000 copies out of the back of his pickup at rodeos.
steer wrestling. He tried a lot of events, but kept going back to bareback riding.
32. He quit to spend more time on his music.
Garth Brooks. They sang a duet together called "Watcha Gonna Do With A Cowboy". And Garth offered part of his liver to Chris when he got sick. What a friend!
| What notoriously strong bucking horse did Chris have to successfully ride in the last round of the National Finals Rodeo to win the World Championship in the Bareback Bronc Riding? | Chris LeDoux, Singing Rodeo Cowboy
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Stormy Weather, Stiener Rodeo Co.. All four of these broncs were bad news, but it was the big buckskin from Tommy Stieners' Rodeo Company that Chris had to face to win the title. Stormy Weather was well known for jerking on riders arms and if you watch the film of the ride you can tell in the last two seconds of it that Chris was taking a beating.
| Many of Chris' early songs tell of the harsh realities of rodeo, down and out times, crippling injury and even death. From his third album "Songs of Rodeo and Country", what song tells the story of an bull fighter who gets killed trying to save the cowboy from a bull? | Chris LeDoux, Singing Rodeo Cowboy
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Joad'e the Rodeo Clown. "One of my buddies dragged me away, but Joad'e lay dead on the ground." Joad'e had been a rider himself but after an accident he became a rodeo clown/bullfighter because "he didn't want cowboys hooked by the bulls."
| By the year that Chris won the Championship he was pretty banged up. One major accident contributed to his practice of using athletic tape over almost his entire upper torso. What mishap was it that led to these injuries and Chris being taped up like a mummy? | Chris LeDoux, Singing Rodeo Cowboy
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Collision with a horse.. After dismounting a bucking horse at a rodeo in California, Chris was frieght trained by one of the pickup men's horses sustaining several upper body injuries.
Amarillo by Morning. Long before anybody had heard of George Strait, Chris recorded his version of this great rodeo song which was written by songwriter extrordinaire and Elvis sound-a-like Terry Stafford.
| Many people don't know that Chris went to college. While there he competed in the National Intercollegiate Rodeo Association. What was significant about his time in college rodeo? | Chris LeDoux, Singing Rodeo Cowboy
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It's when he won his first major championship.. Chris was the 1969 NIRA Bareback Riding champion.
| While he was a fine song writer himself, Chirs LeDoux was quick to recognize the talent of others and cover their songs. What tune by legendary singer songwriter Kris Kristofferson did Chris record on his album "Sing me a Song Mr. Rodeo Man"? | Chris LeDoux, Singing Rodeo Cowboy
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The Silver Tongued Devil and I. As a kid wanting to be a rodeo cowboy, Chirs LeDoux was the only singer and songwriter who mattered as far as I was concerned. I rember looking at the credits on that album and thinking "who is Kris Kristofferson?"
| In the whacky times that were the mid late 70's, CBS sports had a battle of the sexes that pitted Chris against what women's all around rodeo champion? | Chris LeDoux, Singing Rodeo Cowboy
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Sue Pirtle. It was a one time event, they both competed in bareback bronc and bull riding. Sue was the women's bareback champion but she was also a very capable bull rider. Chris did not do so well in the bull riding segment, but being the world champ, he shined in the bronc riding and accumulated the most over all points givnig him the win.
| As any Chris LeDoux fan knows, not all of his songs were about rodeo and cowboys, he could do a straight up country song as well as anyone. On his debut album, what song tells the trials of a down home boy going out into the world with the opening lines "I packed my clothes in a carboard box and momma packed my lunch"? | Chris LeDoux, Singing Rodeo Cowboy
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Ain't No Place for a Country Boy. Few people have probably ever heard this poignant song from early in Chris' career, "I didn't even bother to unpack the clothes I'd brought, some man paid me $10 for Grand pa's pocket watch." I love this song, it is one of my two favorite songs by Mr. LeDoux, he had so many great ones.
Joe Alexander. All were great bareback riders with Paul, Bruce and Marvin being champs themselves. But it was Joe "Alexander the great" whom Chris edged out for the 1976 world title, up until then Joe had won five straight world championships in the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association.
| As mentioned before, Chris did songs about what rodeo was really like. Beginning with the line "Folks used to think that I could ride, any bronc or bull alive" what song featured on his "Life as a Rodeo Man" album tells what its like to climb to the top in the sport, only to watch your rodeo career eventually decline? | Chris LeDoux, Singing Rodeo Cowboy
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All Around Cowboy of 1964. "Now my days have shortened up, I'm out of breaks and out of luck, and things will never be the same old way." This could be Chris best song ever, as well as my other personal favorite, the lyrics are right on, the musicianship and sound production are great, when I play this one I crank it up loud.
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