Chris LeDoux
Chris LeDoux
Chris LeDouxwas an American country music singer-songwriter, bronze sculptor and rodeo champion. During his career LeDoux recorded 36 albumswhich have sold more than six million units in the United States as of January 2007. He was awarded one gold album certification from the RIAA, and was nominated for a Grammy Award and the Academy of Country Music Music Pioneer Award...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCountry Singer
Date of Birth2 October 1948
CityBiloxi, MS
CountryUnited States of America
My best year I made $25,000. Of course, that was back in the '70s.
I'm healed up and I feel great. After going through the fire, it's great to be out performing again.
If you're lucky enough to draw a good horse, you still have to ride him, then the next ones. So It's probably 80 percent luck and 20 percent skill.
You'll probably get three horses and you have to draw a good buckin' horse. That's mighty tough.
I only won $250 all summer. And then I got crippled. I had a horse step on me while performing and it was messed up for a while.
You hope your buddies will win so you don't have to loan them any money.
I admire bull riders for their passion and the uniqueness each one of them has.
So it's probably eighty percent luck and twenty percent skill.
And takin' a bath in the creek. That's the stuff that really made it worthwhile. Anybody can stay in a motel.
But if they ever saw a sunrise on a mountain morning/Watched those cotton candy clouds roll by/They'd know why I live beneath these Western Skies.
You get to where you kind of like it, and It's a habit That's hard to break. I still find myself sittin' in a cafe, like a pizza parlor.
I really didn't go that hard, although a couple of years I did. Some guys work 125 to 130 rodeos a year. they're just goin' all the time.
In fact my son subscribes to Pro Bull Rider magazine.
Sleepin' in the truck wasn't so bad. Shoot, I kind of liked that, myself.