19 years ago yesterday……..

[ismith]

 

[Mica Man]

Glad I got to see him perform before he passed.

 

[Orlando]

One of those I remember exactly where I was when I heard the news.
So glad I got to see him in concert.

And Call of The Wild is still one of my favorite songs.

 

[Outlaw99]

My favorite artist of all time. They broke the mold after Chris

 

[elkantlers]

Saw him live in 1996. Still the best concert I've ever seen.

My two favorites.

 

[Dougfirtree]

When I started school in Missoula, one of the friends I made, who I ended up living with until we graduated, was a guy from Sand Coulee, MT. We were from very different backgrounds, and I like to think we each rubbed off on the other, including in the music dept. He was a big Chris fan and I have to admit I always enjoyed this one. Listening back now, I have to give some props for putting a Marc Knopfler-esque guitar solo in a cowboy song and making it fit...

 

[Brittany Chukarman]

I wish I could have seen him ride. He won the world around 1972, about 5 years before I got the rodeo itch. By then Joe Alexander was winning it all.

 

[perma]

I wish I could have seen him ride. He won the world around 1972, about 5 years before I got the rodeo itch. By then Joe Alexander was winning it all.

A man who walked the walk and had songs to back it up. I flipping hate country music nowadays.

 

[BigHornRam]

I wish I could have seen him ride. He won the world around 1972, about 5 years before I got the rodeo itch. By then Joe Alexander was winning it all.

I probably did see Chris ride, but don't remember it. I was pretty young. My parents always would take us to see their friends in Red Bluff every Easter weekend in the early 70's. Red Bluff roundup was that weekend, and was a big deal back in the day. I do rember my brother getting Larry Mahan's autograph one time.

I got to see Chris perform in Moscow, ID around 1997. Best concert I ever saw!

 

[Nick87]

flipping hate country music nowadays.

Still some good country, it's just not on the radio. The stuff on the radio is terrible.

 

[JDH]

I never got to see Chris in person, but was able to see his son Ned and he put on a good show.

 

[BigHornRam]

Back in his rodeo days, Chris would sell tapes of his music out of the back of his pickup in the parking lot.

That's where the line "worn out tape of Chris Ledoux, lonely women and bad booze" came from in the Garth Brooks song Much too Young.

 

[perma]

Still some good country, it's just not on the radio. The stuff on the radio is terrible.

All I keep hearing is some frog that woke up in his truck bed…

 

[Nick87]

All I keep hearing is some frog that woke up in his truck bed…

Unless I'm on a machine new enough with Bluetooth at work I just turn on the oldies station anymore. Better than anything on the new radio.