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. LeDoux ...

He speaks politely, with a slow, friendly drawl. He talks of his childhood as an Air Force brat, his friendships, his love of family. Chris LeDoux, 53, was a rodeo cowboy who played the guitar in his ...

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (CBS4) – The 125th annual Cheyenne Frontier Days Rodeo event is largely dedicated to rodeo and country music icon, Chris Ledoux. Ledoux, a longtime resident of Wyoming, will be honored ...

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) -- 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 ...

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (CBS4) — Garth Brooks will take the stage Friday at the 125th annual Cheyenne Frontier Days and his performance will be dedicated to the late-great Chris LeDoux. In an interview with ...

"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 ...