{"id":63626,"date":"2026-04-30T19:29:29","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T19:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/30\/kenny-feidler-is-a-rodeo-cowboy-following-the-path-of-chris-ledoux\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T19:29:29","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T19:29:29","slug":"kenny-feidler-is-a-rodeo-cowboy-following-the-path-of-chris-ledoux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicianvoice.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/30\/kenny-feidler-is-a-rodeo-cowboy-following-the-path-of-chris-ledoux\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenny Feidler Is a Rodeo Cowboy Following the Path of Chris LeDoux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/kenny-feidler\/\" id=\"auto-tag_kenny-feidler\" data-tag=\"kenny-feidler\">Kenny Feidler<\/a> is not chasing record deals, arena shows, or anything else associated with becoming <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/country-music\/\" id=\"auto-tag_country-music\" data-tag=\"country-music\">country music<\/a>\u2019s next breakout star. The former rodeo cowboy has enough of a following to grind out a living on the dance hall circuit, and he\u2019s fine with that. The South Dakota artist says his only concern is ensuring his high-energy concerts live up to his own expectations. \u201cI always think about being fierce with it, and giving everything,\u201d Feidler says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tFeidler (pronounced \u201cFiddler\u201d) has a pair of recent LPs to show off. He recently released <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/cains-ballroom-tulsa-red-dirt-1235163040\/\">Live at Cain\u2019s<\/a><\/em> \u2014 a 12-track, straight-to-master recording of an October 2025 concert opening for Josh Meloy. The same month he played that show, Feidler released <em>The Western Tragedy<\/em>, his first studio album since <em>Bloodshot<\/em> in summer 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tThe live album, which features six songs from <em>The Western Tragedy<\/em>, was a target of opportunity for Feidler. He released a much-longer concert record, <em>Live at Buck<\/em>\u2019s, earlier in 2025, but the chance to share a night at Cain\u2019s Ballroom in Tulsa provided too much nostalgia to pass up.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201cI\u2019m 38. It\u2019s not like a big flash-in-the-pan thing for me to get to play stages like Cain\u2019s,\u201d Feidler says. \u201cWho knows when something like that will happen again? And I lived in Oklahoma for six years, right when I started playing music. It was a big deal to get to play that stage, and it was kind of important to me.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Idaho Hippies (Official Music Video)-Kenny Feidler\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/csk98VRIIbo?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tFeidler was born in Baltimore but the notion of the West appealed to him from a young age. In high school, he became a bareback bronc rider and was good enough to make the rodeo team at Northwestern State College in Alva, Oklahoma. He was heavily influenced by the life and music of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-country\/chris-ledoux-cheyenne-rodeo-songs-garth-brooks-1200815\/\">Chris LeDoux<\/a>, and when he moved to Oklahoma, he discovered the state\u2019s Red Dirt scene. It was enough to push him to music. Like LeDoux, Feidler started writing cowboy songs and selling music out of his car at rodeos. A 2013 song, \u201cBarrel Racer Land,\u201d a crude number about cowgirls and the cowboys who chase them behind the chutes, became popular enough to make a name for Feidler in rodeo circles.<\/p>\n<section class=\"brands-most-popular \/\/ editors-pick-module lrv-u-margin-tb-2 lrv-u-border-a-2 u-box-shadow-5-5 lrv-u-padding-lr-1 a-span1 u-padding-b-1@tablet u-overflow-hidden\">\n<h2 id=\"section-heading\" class=\"c-heading larva  lrv-u-text-align-center u-border-color-black a-font-theme-primary-xxs lrv-u-color-black lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase u-letter-spacing-0063 lrv-u-padding-t-050 u-padding-b-0375@tablet lrv-u-padding-b-050@mobile-max lrv-u-border-b-2\">\n<p>\t\tEditor\u2019s picks<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tAfter he graduated in 2010, he moved to South Dakota, from where his then-girlfriend (now wife) hailed. It felt like home to him in a way that Baltimore never did.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201cYou can only write about yourself so much,\u201d he says. \u201cI zoned in on listening to people\u2019s stories around me. These are themes that run across all kinds of cultures, but they\u2019re not always talked about. This place gets talked about like the romantic side of the West. It gets embellished \u2014 the easy stuff does. But there\u2019s generational ranches getting passed down here. My boys will probably see that one day. My brother-in-law took over a ranch after my father-in-law passed away. There\u2019s heavy stuff here. Everyone looks at the shiny things and doesn\u2019t think about the weight of them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tFeidler processed his feelings about his adopted home into what became <em>The Western Tragedy<\/em>. Its eight songs \u2014\u00a0all written by Feidler \u2014\u00a0are heavy on nostalgia and imagery that evokes the West. On \u201cCoyotes,\u201d he sings about the animals trailing wagon trains, waiting for a tragedy to scavenge. \u201cPinto\u201d is his ode to the late Idaho songwriting icon Pinto Bennett, who Feidler never met but was heavily influential on his bandmate and friend, Casey Shelden, an Idaho native.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Coyotes (Live)\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XX18ge39P70?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tHe has incorporated <em>The Western Tragedy<\/em> into his concerts since last year. Fiedler\u2019s fanbase is not a massive one, but it\u2019s loyal, and he can make a living playing bars and clubs from South Dakota to Texas or west to the Rockies. The new album, he says, has been a hit.<\/p>\n<section class=\"brands-most-popular \/\/ recirculation-modules lrv-u-margin-tb-2 lrv-u-border-a-2 u-box-shadow-5-5 lrv-u-padding-lr-1 a-span1 u-padding-b-1@tablet u-overflow-hidden\">\n<h2 id=\"section-heading\" class=\"c-heading larva  lrv-u-text-align-center u-border-color-black a-font-theme-primary-xxs lrv-u-color-black lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase u-letter-spacing-0063 lrv-u-padding-t-050 u-padding-b-0375@tablet lrv-u-padding-b-050@mobile-max lrv-u-border-b-2\">\n<p>\t\tRelated Content<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201cIt has a lot of stuff that\u2019s very meaningful to me,\u201d Feidler says. \u201cA lot of stories about people that I know. I felt like there wasn\u2019t any angst in this one. I didn\u2019t feel like I had to get any heavy stuff out. I just settled into the songs. And this version of my band has been together for several years. Any shows that we headline, we\u2019re doing two-hour shows, so I\u2019m playing everything. It\u2019s been a really good response to this one.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\tDespite his determination to be a self-made artist, Feidler has experience on big stages. He was part of the Stagecoach festival in 2023 and opened for Colter Wall in 2024 at Denver\u2019s Mission Ballroom, in addition to a steady run of shows with Meloy over the past two years. He\u2019ll spend the late winter and early spring on a headlining run of bars \u2014 highlighted by the Rhinestone Saloon in Fort Worth and the Tractor Tavern in Seattle.<\/p>\n<section class=\"brands-most-popular \/\/ recirculation-modules trending-in-article lrv-u-margin-tb-2 lrv-u-border-a-2 u-box-shadow-5-5 lrv-u-padding-lr-1 a-span1 u-padding-b-1@tablet u-overflow-hidden\">\n<h2 id=\"section-heading\" class=\"c-heading larva  lrv-u-text-align-center u-border-color-black a-font-theme-primary-xxs lrv-u-color-black lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase u-letter-spacing-0063 lrv-u-padding-t-050 u-padding-b-0375@tablet lrv-u-padding-b-050@mobile-max lrv-u-border-b-2\">\n<p>\t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t\u201cWe\u2019ve had a couple of cool things that have happened in the past,\u201d he says. \u201cAnd I feel pretty good about this year. A lot of stuff comes with the right timing, confidence in my band and professionalism, and I feel like we\u2019re pretty well-set to take on whatever comes our way this year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   \">\n\t<em>Josh Crutchmer is a journalist and author whose book <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/backloungepublishing.com\/almostalmostfamous\/\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><em>(Almost) Almost Famous<\/em><\/a><em> will be released April 1 via Back Lounge Publishing.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/kenny-feidler-rodeo-cowboy-western-tragedy-1235556312\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kenny Feidler is not chasing record deals, arena shows, or anything else associated with becoming country music\u2019s next breakout star. 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