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New Cross Canadian Ragweed
New Braunfels-based Cross Canadian Ragweed has a new CD, “Happiness and All the Other Things,” out today, just in time to get fans hyped for the band’s fourth annual Red Dirt Roundup on Sunday at the Fort Worth Stockyards. A crowd of upward of 15,000 is expected to hear such acts as the Wallflowers, Robert Earl Keen, Randy Rogers Band, Charlie Robison, the Gourds, Band of Heathens, Lucero and more.
The world’s loudest country band, Ragweed plays Friday at Stubb’s and Saturday at the Whitewater amphitheater in New Braunfels.
The new CCR album is the band’s best since the self-titled major label debut (known as “the purple album”), with material ranging from the Bob Seger-like opening track “51 Pieces” to the peaceful easy feeling of “Kick in the Head,” the piano-dripping “My Chances” and the tender ballad “Bluebonnets.” Singer/guitarist Cody Canada wasn’t going to record that latter tune, but when his young son Dierks asked him “Daddy, are you going to record my song?” Canada not only put it on the CD, but had Dierks introduce it.
Image from Universal South Records.
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