“Randy was the writer and Chris was probably the reason that it was played. On Brook’s The Hits CD booklet liner note, he expressed his gratitude to Taylor and LeDoux for the completion of his very first single. Also, it topped at number 9 on Canada Country Tracks. The track successfully peaked at number 8 on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart on July 15, 1989. One of the track’s best feature is its instrumentals that highlight the fiddle and steel guitar.
He misses home and realizes that his time had passed and he has to let the younger crowd take over the business. It is a tale about a rodeo cowboy, who’s been competing for most of the time of his life. Seem to be the only friends I’ve left at allīrooks co-wrote the song with Randy Taylor and was also featured on The Garth Brooks Collection, The Hits, and The Ultimate Hits. The worn out tape of Chris LeDoux, lonely women and bad booze And in March 1989, Brooks’ debut single record, “Much Too Young (To Feel This Damn Old),” highlighted LeDoux and rodeo cowboy’s life.
His influence is much evidenced in Garth Brooks‘ music. No one in country music had written and sang as many songs about rodeo as Chris LeDoux whose career peaked in the mid-sixties to the nineties.
