Last month, Cross Canadian Ragweed shocked fans by reactivating their website and purging their social media. While their social accounts were blank, the website hinted that something was coming in 2025. Earlier today, the band revealed their plans. The band will reunite and come together with a handful of Oklahoma’s best Red Dirt acts for one very special show next spring.
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Cross Canadian Ragweed parted ways back in 2010. Since then, frontman Cody Canada swore a reunion would never happen. In previous interviews, he hinted that no amount of money could get the old band together again. Instead, he preferred to continue fronting The Departed without looking back. That has changed now.
Ragweed will team up with Turnpike Troubadours, Jason Boland and the Stragglers, The Great Divide, and Stoney LaRue for The Boys from Oklahoma. It will take place at the Boone Pickens Stadium at Oklahoma State University in Stillwater, Oklahoma on April 12, 2025.
Getting That Old Time Feeling Like Before
Interestingly, Ragweed’s road to reunion mirrors another band on the bill. Turnpike Troubadours went on an indefinite hiatus in 2018 after personal issues within the band caused poor performances and missed shows. Then, in 2021, the band scrubbed their social media profiles and teased a big announcement. In January 2022 they announced their first reunion shows at Cain’s Ballroom in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and have been on the road almost constantly since then. They released their latest album, A Cat in the Rain last November.
Cross Canadian Ragweed is calling the show in Stillwater a one-night-only event. However, it could lead to more in the future. Only time will tell.
Cody Canada on the Cross Canadian Ragweed Reunion
Cody Canada spoke to Josh Crutchmer for Rolling Stone about the Cross Canadian Ragweed reunion. Not long ago, he told Crutchmer that the band would never get back together. In the most recent interview, he admitted his regret in saying that. “I should not have said I’d never do it. When I told you that, I thought, ‘What if we do? I’ll have to eat my words.’ Now, I’m sitting here with a mouthful of my words,” he said. “You really never know, and you should never say never,” he added.
Pre-sale tickets for The Boys from Oklahoma go on sale next Monday (October 7). Tickets go on sale to the public on Friday, October 11.
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