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REALLYMUSICRADIO presents
CROSS CANADIAN RAGWEED
"We're a little more rock 'n' roll than other people
(from the Oklahoma/Texas scene) and that's not a bad
thing," laughs Cody Canada, whose Southern-fried lead
guitar licks betray his love of heroes like Stevie Ray
Vaughan, Pete Anderson (of Dwight Yoakam fame) and
Eddie Van Halen--not to mention the fact that he's been
playing since he was eight years old.
"Cody's such a good lead player, I don't have a problem
playing rhythm," says Grady Cross. "Man, he feels it. He
doesn't just sit up there...he's all over the stage, just
killing it. He'll take his guitar and slide it across the
rail on the front row. And when it's all four of us out
there on stage, sometimes it doesn't even feel like the
crowd's there because we're all so focused on each
other--what the next person's going to do."
No surprise really, given that these guys have known
each other pretty much since kindergarten. "We've been
friends since we were kids and that's the one thing that
keeps us going I think," says Canada. "That's the soul
of this band...the friendship between us."
These friendships were born in the band's hometown of
Yukon--a blue-collar burg they couldn't escape from
fast enough. By the time the guys were all just out of
high school (except for Ragsdale, the youngest), they
started jamming at a party and Cross Canadian Ragweed
was born. Yukon as a rule wasn't a very musician
friendly town, but they had one notable local squarely
in their corner: Ragsdale's father Johnny (now
deceased).
"My dad was a guitar player--he played with Bob Wills,and a little bit with Reba McEntire when she was first
starting out," says Ragsdale. "He really didn't
want me to be a drummer but I insisted...I found a set
of drums in a neighbor's trash one day and hauled them
into the cellar. He kind of figured out after about a
year that I was serious and finally got me a new drum
set. When he met Cody, he realized his talent and how
seriously we wanted to take music, and he really pushed
us. He completely drove us up the wall but later down
the road we realized he did it for a good reason."
Once the band got its chops, they moved to the all-
together more musician friendly town of Stillwater,
where acts like McClure's Great Divide and singer-
songwriter Jimmy LaFave had established enough of a
local scene to earn Stillwater the nickname "North
Austin" (or, depending on your perspective, "West
Nashville"). Inspired by McClure's self-penned Great
Divide songs (and more than a little by early Steve
Earle), the band quickly grew out of its Merle Haggard
and classic rock covers and began focusing on Canada's
uncommonly honest and straight-forward originals. A
potent foursome of albums--1998's CARNEY, 1999's LIVE
AT THE WORMY DOG, 2001's HIGHWAY 377 and 2002's LIVE
AT BILLY BOB'S TEXAS, collectively selling over 70,000
copies to date--coupled with an average of 200 gigs a
year cinched the band's place at the top of the
Texas/Oklahoma music totem pole.
Cross Canadian Ragweed's website
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