Ned LeDoux has music in his blood. Under the tutelage of his father, the late rodeo champion-turned-country star Chris LeDoux, the younger LeDoux spent much of his childhood and early adult years ...
The words sprawled across the album cover of Ned LeDoux's newest project are more than just the album title. Safe Haven is both a dedication to his late daughter, Haven, and a place he ran to after ...
With “country culture” turning from taboo to trendy in the modern mainstream, it’s easy to assume that all of these new additions have created a diluted version of the culture. But for artists like ...
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 ...
"I believe that everybody in this world has a place where they need to go when things get a little too heavy," he tells PEOPLE. "And for me, music has always been that" It’s been 20 years since the ...
But they also bootlegged their own copies of albums like 1971’s Songs of Rodeo Life and passed them around, as Brooks called out in “Much Too Young” when he sang about “a worn-out tape of Chris LeDoux ...
Singer-songwriter Ned LeDoux has a surefire trick for trying to get his baby daughter to calm down when she’s crying: just cue up some cowboy music and wait for tales of the range to work their magic.
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 ...
Mark Sissel had a front-row seat to Chris LeDoux's rise to national prominence, as the singer-songwriter and rodeo star's tour manager and guitar player for just over a decade and a half. When he ...
SOUTHERN ILLINOIS - Chris LeDoux was a real cowboy. In his local appearances at the Du Quoin State Fair and Sikeston Bootheel Rodeo, the grandstands were packed full of hard-core rodeo junkies and ...
Ned LeDoux Says His Late Daughter Haven Spoke to Him in New Song It was as if "Haven was speaking to me as I was playing the guitar part." The recently released 'Wyoming Cowboy — A Collection' is a ...
Her music and songs are the result of a lifetime of musical involvement inspired by her accumulated life experiences. This latest and most successful effort was inspired by a book she had read about ...