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.

It's like every time I need some help, he's there."LeDoux eventually signed with Brooks' record label."I guess we've sold, since I've been with Capitol, like 5 1/2 million records — or CDs, nowadays," ...

Chris LeDoux has a story that can be described as the plucky underdog who overcame significant odds and earned a world record in rodeo, only to go on to become a celebrated cowboy singer with the ...

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 ...

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.