That's actually a tough one for me, Gene. He put out all these cassettes over the years and so I heard his songs in various friends' cars and houses but never owned any because I didn't have a cassette player, only a turntable. I've got a few of his CDs now but no one of them really catches him.

I guess it'd be best to get one of his 'Greatest Hits' collections, '20 Greatest Hits' maybe. He put this out after he was pushed by Garth Brooks and broke relatively big. It's got a lot of duets and covers, like 'Copenhagen' sung with Toby Keith and even 'Bang a Drum' with Jon Bon Jovi. It's all listenable though and you can catch who he was as a performer. Garth Brooks claimed that Chris LeDoux taught him how to work a crowd and he did put on a good show.

The last song on it is 'Western Skies', which is his song about why he lived in Wyoming not Nashville. Listening to it now, it may turn out to be my favorite song of his.