Most country music singers never dare to get on the back of a bucking horse or bull, or throw a loop in an arena or on a ranch. But Chris LeDoux was different. He ...

Twenty-one years ago today, a rodeo star who wrote and sang songs about his life and rose to fame after a Garth Brooks shout out died.

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CHEYENNE — Rodeo and country music fans mourned the death of Chris LeDoux, a former world champion bareback rider who parlayed songs about the rodeo life into a successful country music career.

Ned LeDoux was born in 1977, shortly after his father, Chris LeDoux, earned the world championship title in rodeo bareback bronc riding. For several years previous, his father had also chased a ...

Chris LeDoux, a world champion bareback rider who parlayed songs about cowboys he knew on the rodeo circuit into a successful country music career, died Wednesday from complications of liver cancer.

"As the rodeo career sort of dwindled away, the recording career picked up."He said he started writing and recording rodeo songs because nobody else was doing it.Now, LeDoux says, he'd rather be out ...