It’s happening 20 years since rodeo legend and nation music hero Chris LeDoux handed away. However with the assistance of his son and fellow performer Ned LeDoux, his voice is coming again to life, at the least for one music. As individuals put together for the Nationwide Finals Rodeo (NFR) in Las Vegas this week, Ned LeDoux has launched a brand new music that by means of a bit assist and serendipity, options his legendary father. And no, this isn’t a type of AI-generated issues.
The final music Chris LeDoux ever recorded was known as “One Hand In The Riggin’,” but it surely by no means was launched. Chris LeDoux’s vocal half was supposed to look on an album by the music’s author, Brenn Hill, who co-wrote the observe with Bruce Bouton. However for one purpose or one other, Brenn Hill determined to not launch the music, so the unused vocal observe sat on the shelf.
“Twenty-one years later, I bumped into Brenn on the Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko, Nevada, and he jogged my memory that he nonetheless had that vocal observe—and that God had a greater path for it,” Ned LeDoux explains. The plan was hatched to place each generations of LeDoux on the music collectively as a part of an upcoming album from Ned produced by legendary producer/guitar participant Mac McAnally.
“Mac dropped dad’s vocal in whereas I used to be out on tour. So, the primary time I heard it, Dad and I had been singing collectively. Man, it gave me chills,” says Ned LeDoux.
Ned performed drums in his father’s band up till his demise in 2005. To assist keep it up the household’s musical legacy, Ned transitioned to guitar and singing, and has since develop into a revered member of the cowboy and Western music neighborhood, touring recurrently and releasing a number of albums.
Together with a brand new album coming in early 2025 (launch date TBA), Ned LeDoux can be on the point of seem within the function movie Buffalo Daze that has sturdy ties to the Yellowstone world. He’ll even be performing on the Silverton On line casino Lodge on December fifth and sixth as a part of NFR 2025 in Las Vegas.
