By no means Earlier than Heard Chris LeDoux Vocal Monitor Turns into A New Collaboration With His Son, Ned LeDoux
“One Hand In The Riggin’” Out Now – Ned LeDoux is performing two nights in Las Vegas this weekend
Chris LeDoux was well-known, and well-respected, in a number of circles. A chart-topping musician, an ACM Pioneer Award-winner, a World Champion bareback rider within the Professional Rodeo Corridor of Fame and most significantly a hero to his son, Ned LeDoux who’s about to make his on-screen appearing debut within the upcoming function movie Buffalo Daze. However the sweetest factor going for the LeDouxs in the intervening time is Ned’s new single, “One Hand In The Riggin’” that mixes all of these aforementioned accomplishments with a really particular duet visitor: his late father, Chris.
Ned, as many followers know, was a drummer in his dad’s band Western Underground till Chris’s passing in 2005. Deeply impressed to hold on the musical legacy Ned stepped out from behind the drums and picked up a guitar. With 3 albums and a thousand reveals behind him, Ned has lastly discovered his second.
Out right this moment, “One Hand In The Riggin’” was the final music the elder LeDoux ever recorded and the primary launch by Ned since 2022’s Buckskin—and a little bit of a serendipitous musical assembly of each generations of LeDoux males. “In 2003, one of many music’s writers, Brenn Hill, was engaged on a brand new album and requested dad to sing on this music with him,” Ned explains. “Resulting from unexpected circumstances, it didn’t find yourself on the document. 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 monitor—and that God had a greater path for it.” The timing couldn’t have been higher as LeDoux was simply getting began recording his subsequent album with producer Mac McAnally.
“Mac dropped dad’s vocal in whereas I used to be out on tour,” recollects LeDoux. “So, the primary time I heard it, Dad and I have been singing collectively. Man, it gave me chills.” The driving strums of “One Hand In The Riggin’” carry the mix of lonesome highway music and cowboy nation tune from verse to verse with Ned and Chris splitting vocal duties till they be part of collectively for the music’s defiantly jubilant choruses: “If I preserve one hand within the riggin’ and one hand on the wheel / Regardless of how far down the highway I’m going, there’s all the time yet another rodeo / She’d like for me to calm down / So long as I’m nonetheless livin’, I preserve one hand on the wheel and one hand within the riggin.’” For a person who’s made a profession out of not singing songs about issues he doesn’t know and, in his phrases, “sticking to what I perceive,” this new tune from LeDoux is as true and earnest because it comes. And slicing it with the assistance of his dad, effectively, that’s what makes it sing. “It’s only a very particular music for me,” says Ned.
LeDoux’s mission in music has all the time been clear, a philosophy that rings extra loudly now than ever earlier than. “I’m simply making an attempt to put in writing my very own story and I’m a horrible pretender. I can’t write a music that I’ve no relation with as a result of folks would determine that out fairly fast. I’ll simply stick with what I perceive,” he explains.
Followers can stream or buy “One Hand In The Riggin’” right this moment at this hyperlink and you should definitely preserve a watch out for extra new music from LeDoux in early 2025. This weekend LeDoux and his band will carry out at Silverton On line casino Lodge’s Veil Pavillion in Las Vegas as a part of the Nationwide Finals Rodeo. LeDoux will even make his silver display debut as Teton Ridge’s NFR pre-show broadcast appears to be like on the premiere of Buffalo Daze theatrical trailer December sixth.
A full listing of introduced tour dates may be discovered beneath. For extra data, please go to nedledoux.com.
Catch Ned LeDoux On Tour:
Dec. 5 – Las Vegas, NV – Silverton On line casino Lodge – Nationwide Finals Rodeo
Dec. 6 – Las Vegas, NV – Silverton On line casino Lodge – Nationwide Finals Rodeo
Jan. 9 – Steamboat Springs, CO – The MusicFest
Jan. 10 – Steamboat Springs, CO – The MusicFest
Jan. 11 – Denver, CO – Grizzly Rose
Jan. 23 – Cedar Park, TX – The Haute Spot
Jan. 24 – Fort Value, TX – Billy Bob’s Texas
Jan. 25 – El Campo, TX – Greek Brother’s Oyster Bar
Mar. 28 – Omaha, NE – Barnato
Mar. 29 – Wichita, KS – Wichita Union Stockyard
Jul. 26 – Three Forks, MT – Headwaters Nation Jam
Aug. 2 – Sidney, MT – Richland County Truthful & Rodeo
