# Chris LeDoux discography

Chris LeDoux was a rodeo cowboy who sang and recorded songs in his spare time and sold his albums from the back of his truck. With his father, he started his own record label, American Cowboy Songs, in 1970. Under that label he released 22 albums between 1971 and 1990. After gaining recognition from the 1989 Garth Brooks song, "Much Too Young (To Feel This Damn Old)" he was signed to Liberty Records, where he released 4 studio albums in four years. He released 6 more albums including a live album under Capitol Records. Horsepower in 2003 was his last studio album before his death in 2005. Nine official compilation albums have been released between 1994 and 2008. 20 Greatest Hits has been certified platinum by the RIAA.
LeDoux has released a total of 33 singles, most of them from his major label albums. While most of his singles failed to chart or missed the top 40, his most famous song is the duet with Garth Brooks, "Whatcha Gonna Do with a Cowboy" which charted at #7 on Billboard's Hot Country Songs chart. The follow-up single, "Cadillac Ranch" reached #18.

## Studio albums
### 1970s

| Title | Details |
| Songs of Rodeo Life | Release date: 1971 Label: self-released |
| Rodeo Songs "Old & New" | Release date: 1973 Label: self-released |
| Songs of Rodeo and Country | Release date: 1974 Label: self-released |
| Rodeo and Living Free | Release date: 1975 Label: self-released |
| Life as a Rodeo Man | Release date: 1975 Label: self-released |
| Songbook of the American West | Release date: 1976 Label: self-released |
| Sing Me a Song Mr. Rodeo Man | Release date: 1977 Label: self-released |
| Cowboys Ain't Easy to Love | Release date: 1978 Label: self-released |
| Paint Me Back Home in Wyoming | Release date: 1978 Label: self-released |
| Western Tunesmith | Release date: 1979 Label: self-released |

### 1980s

| Title | Details |
| Old Cowboy Heroes | Release date: 1980 Label: self-released |
| He Rides the Wild Horses | Release date: 1981 Label: self-released |
| Used to Want to Be a Cowboy | Release date: 1982 Label: self-released |
| Old Cowboy Classics | Release date: 1983 Label: self-released |
| Thirty Dollar Cowboy | Release date: 1983 Label: self-released |
| Melodies and Memories | Release date: 1984 Label: self-released |
| Wild and Wooly | Release date: 1986 Label: self-released |
| Chris LeDoux and the Saddle Boogie Band | Release date: 1988 Label: self-released |
| Powder River | Release date: 1989 Label: self-released |

### 1990s

| Title | Details | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | Certifications (sales thresholds) |
| Title | Details | US Country | US | Certifications (sales thresholds) |
| Western Underground | Release date: July 22, 1991 Label: Liberty Records | 36 | — | |
| Whatcha Gonna Do with a Cowboy | Release date: July 20, 1992 Label: Liberty Records | 9 | 65 | RIAA: Gold |
| Under This Old Hat | Release date: July 5, 1993 Label: Liberty Records | 21 | 131 | |
| Haywire | Release date: September 6, 1994 Label: Liberty Records | 17 | 128 | |
| Stampede | Release date: March 19, 1996 Label: Capitol Nashville | 33 | — | |
| One Road Man | Release date: July 14, 1998 Label: Capitol Nashville | 24 | 180 | |
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart |||||

### 2000s

| Title | Details | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions |
| Title | Details | US Country | US |
| Cowboy | Release date: August 1, 2000 Label: Capitol Nashville | 17 | 134 |
| After the Storm | Release date: April 9, 2002 Label: Capitol Nashville | 14 | 121 |
| Horsepower | Release date: July 22, 2003 Label: Capitol Nashville | 24 | 162 |

## Compilation albums

| Title | Details | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | Certifications |
| Title | Details | US Country | US | Certifications |
| Sounds of the Western Country | Release date: 1980 Label: self-released | — | — | |
| Gold Buckle Dreams | Release date: 1987 Label: self-released | — | — |
| Radio and Rodeo Hits | Release date: 1990 Label: self-released | — | — | |
| Best of Chris LeDoux | Release date: March 8, 1994 Label: Liberty Records | 51 | — | RIAA: Gold |
| American Cowboy | Release date: November 1, 1994 Label: Liberty Records | — | — | |
| Rodeo Rock and Roll Collection | Release date: August 15, 1995 Label: Capitol Nashville | — | — | |
| 20 Greatest Hits | Release date: June 8, 1999 Label: Capitol Nashville | 17 | 145 | RIAA: Platinum |
| The Capitol Collection (1990-2000) | Release date: June 4, 2002 Label: Capitol Nashville | 63 | — | |
| 20 Originals: The Early Years | Release date: June 15, 2004 Label: Capitol Nashville | 58 | — | |
| Anthology, Volume 1 | Release date: August 16, 2005 Label: Capitol Nashville | 20 | 126 | |
| The Ultimate Collection | Release date: October 3, 2006 Label: Capitol Nashville | 33 | — | |
| Classic Chris LeDoux | Release date: April 29, 2008 Label: Capitol Nashville | 26 | 175 | |
| Icon | Release date: 2013 Label: Capitol Nashville | — | — | |
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart |||||

## Live albums

| Title | Details | Peak chart positions |
| Title | Details | US Country |
| Live | Release date: June 17, 1997 Label: Capitol Nashville | 26 |

## Singles
### 1970s and 1980s

| Year | Single | Peak positions | Album |
| Year | Single | US Country | Album |
| 1979 | "Lean, Mean and Hungry" | 99 | Paint Me Back Home in Wyoming |
| 1979 | "Caballo Diablo" | 98 | Life as a Rodeo Man |
| 1980 | "Ten Seconds in the Saddle" | 96 | Western Tunesmith |
| 1980 | "Buckin' Machine" | — | Rodeo & Living Free |
| 1982 | "I Used to Want to Be a Cowboy" | — | Used to Want to Be a Cowboy |
| 1984 | "Even Cowboys Like a Little Rock and Roll" | — | Melodies and Memories |
| 1987 | "It Ain't the Years, It's the Miles" | — | Gold Buckle Dreams |
| 1989 | "Sons of the Pioneers" | — | Powder River |
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart ||||

### 1990s

| Year | Single | Peak chart positions | Peak chart positions | Certifications | Album |
| Year | Single | US Country | CAN Country | Certifications | Album |
| 1990 | "Wild and Wooly" | —$^A$ | — | | Radio & Rodeo Hits |
| 1990 | "Riding for a Fall" | — | — | | — |
| 1991 | "This Cowboy's Hat" | 63 | — | RIAA: Platinum | Western Underground |
| 1992 | "Workin' Man's Dollar" | 69 | — | | Western Underground |
| 1992 | "Riding for a Fall" (re-recording) | 72 | — | | Western Underground |
| 1992 | "Whatcha Gonna Do with a Cowboy" (featuring Garth Brooks) | 7 | 5 | | Whatcha Gonna Do with a Cowboy |
| 1992 | "Cadillac Ranch" | 18 | 16 | | Whatcha Gonna Do with a Cowboy |
| 1993 | "Look at You Girl" | 52 | 56 | | Whatcha Gonna Do with a Cowboy |
| 1993 | "Under This Old Hat" | 54 | 53 | | Under This Old Hat |
| 1993 | "Every Time I Roll the Dice" | 61 | 68 | | Under This Old Hat |
| 1994 | "For Your Love" | 50 | 73 | | Under This Old Hat |
| 1994 | "Honky Tonk World" | 71 | — | | Haywire |
| 1995 | "Tougher Than the Rest" | 67 | — | | Haywire |
| 1995 | "Dallas Days and Fort Worth Nights" | 68 | — | | Haywire |
| 1996 | "Five Dollar Fine" | — | — | | Stampede |
| 1996 | "Gravitational Pull" | 71 | 77 | | Stampede |
| 1997 | "When I Say Forever" | 65 | — | | Stampede |
| 1998 | "Runaway Love" | 62 | — | | One Road Man |
| 1998 | "Bang a Drum" (with Jon Bon Jovi) | 68 | — | | One Road Man |
| 1999 | "Life Is a Highway" | 64 | — | | One Road Man |
| 1999 | "Stampede" | 66 | — | | 20 Greatest Hits |
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart ||||||
Notes:
* $^A$ "Wild and Wooley" did not chart on Hot Country Songs, but peaked at No. 8 on Hot Country Radio Breakouts.

### 2000s

| Year | Single | Peak positions | Album |
| Year | Single | US Country | Album |
| 2000 | "Silence on the Line" | 65 | Cowboy |
| 2001 | "He Rides the Wild Horses" | — | Cowboy |
| 2002 | "Bareback Jack" | — | After the Storm |
| 2002 | "Cowboy Up" | — | After the Storm |
| 2004 | "Horsepower" | 56 | Horsepower |
| 2005 | "The Ride" | — | Horsepower |
| 2005 | "Airborne Cowboy" | — | Anthology, Vol. 1 |
| "—" denotes releases that did not chart ||||

## Music videos

| Year | Video | Director |
| 1991 | "Riding for a Fall" | Gary Eckert |
| 1992 | "Working Man's Dollar" | Joanne Gardner |
| 1992 | "Cadillac Ranch" | Michael Merriman |
| 1993 | "Look at You Girl" | Michael Merriman |
| 1993 | "Under This Old Hat" | R. Brad Murano/Steven T. Miller |
| 1993 | "For Your Love" | Michael Salomon |
| 1994 | "Honky Tonk World" | Michael Salomon |
| 1994 | "Tougher Than the Rest" | Michael Merriman |
| 1996 | "Five Dollar Fine" (cameo by Garth Brooks) | Michael Salomon |
| 1997 | "This Cowboy's Hat" | Ken Carpenter |
| 1998 | "Bang a Drum" (with Jon Bon Jovi) | Anthony M. Bongiovi |
| 1999 | "Life Is a Highway" | Michael Salomon |
| 1999 | "Stampede" | Michael Salomon |
| 2000 | "Silence on the Line" | Michael Salomon |
| 2001 | "He Rides the Wild Horses" | Various |
| 2003 | "Horsepower" | Eric Welch |