Chris LeDoux is truly a renaissance man. He is not only a successful country singer and songwriter he is also champion rodeo rider, a noted sculptor, and a house builder. Born in Biloxi, Mississippi, he and his family moved to Austin, Texas when he was 12. There he got his own horse and was taught to ride by an old cavalry sergeant. Two years later he made it to the national finals of the Little Britches rodeo where he won the bareback riding championship and placed in the bull-riding competition. He then began working on a ranch in summers and participating in the Cody professional rodeo at night. A member of his high school rodeo team, LeDoux went on to win the Wyoming State Championship after graduating. This led him to receive a rodeo scholarship for Casper College, Wyoming. During the summer he kept working for Cody and also participated in the college rodeo circuit for the next three years. LeDoux subsequently became Intercollegiate National Bareback Riding Champion. He continued winning awards and recognition in rodeo through his college years. He also changed colleges several times. By his third year LeDoux had joined the Professional Rodeo Cowboy's Association (PRCA). During college, he had been a commercial art major. He made a bronze sculpture of a man riding a bronc which won him considerable acclaim. LeDoux reached the pinnacle of his rodeo career in 1976 when he became the World Champion Bareback Rider. While riding and traveling about LeDoux began writing songs about the rodeo such as "Rodeo Life," "Bareback Jack," "Bull Rider." In 1980, he left the cowboy craft and began focusing on his music career. He first recorded in a basement studio in Sheridan. His father then got him a Nashville recording session with some of the city's best session players. His debut album was released on Lucky Man, a subsidiary of his family's music business American Cowboy Songs. For the next two decades LeDoux recorded 22 albums on independent labels. The albums contained a blend of songs he had written and traditional cowboy songs. Many of those albums were sold on the rodeo circuit and over the years he developed a loyal following. In addition to records, LeDoux's company has also published a three volume set of all of the cowboy songs on his albums complete with music and chords. From 1979 to 1980, LeDoux had three minor hits with "Lean, Mean and Hungry," "Ten Seconds in the Saddle" and "Caballo Diablo." Finally, in 1990 LeDoux had become popular enough to sign to Liberty Records (formerly Capitol Records) which liked his previous works so much that they re-released all of his previous albums on cds and cassettes. His first album for Liberty was "Western Underground," which produced his first single, "This Cowboy Hat." The song made it to the Top 70 as did the follow up single "Working Man's Dollar." In 1992 LeDoux teamed up with longtime friend Garth Brooks --who helped popularize LeDoux by mentioning his name in his 1989 hit "Much Too Young (to Feel This Damn Old)" -- to sing the title track of "Watcha Gonna Do with a Cowboy" and made it to the Top 10. The two then began touring together. In 1993 LeDoux had a Top 20 hit with "Cadillac Ranch," which came from "Under This Old Hat." Since then, Chris has released three more records; "Haywire", "Stampede", and "Chris LeDoux Live". Chris' latest album "One Road Man" was released July 14th.