September 28, 2012

 

Street marker for Chris LeDoux


The Mississippi Country Music Trail will honour the late Chris LeDoux with a marker in Biloxi.
The Biloxi native won the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association bareback title in 1976 and sold more than 5 million albums over his career. He died in 2005 at the age of 56.
LeDoux played guitar and wrote songs while traveling for the rodeo and by 1989 had made 22 self-produced albums for a loyal but limited fan base. Things changed that year when Garth Brooks referenced a "worn-out tape of Chris LeDoux" in his hit "Much Too Young (To Feel This Damn Old)."
The reference energized LeDoux's music career, leading to a contract with Capitol Records in 1991 and a 1992 Grammy-nominated Top 10 duet with Brooks called, "Whatcha Gonna Do With a Cowboy."



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