In addition to new music, the very family-oriented Canada is busy with his other labor of love: his own School of Rock franchise in his hometown of New Braunfels, Texas. As a bonus, it will be a mini Braun Brothers Reunion, of sorts, with Micky & The Motorcars (another band that skipped Utah in 2018) co-headlining the show. On Tuesday, The Departed returns to The State Room for their first show in Utah in three years. In June, Cody Canada and The Departed – now a trio – released the appropriately titled 3, an album that found Canada reuniting with Cross Canadian Ragweed producer Mike McClure. Go out and do what you do best, sing YOUR songs. That’s when Canada took the advice of his wife, Shannon Canada, who told him, “I just want to hear you sing your songs.” In fact, in some ways it was a hindrance.Ī rotating cast of band members, Canada’s refusal to play many Ragweed standards, and experimentation with a new sound left fans confused and Canada frustrated. The success that Canada and bassist Jeremy Plato had with their prior band, however, wasn’t enough to launch The Departed back into Ragweed-like fame. The breakup of Ragweed was not as pleasant as originally portrayed. Before Cross Canadian Ragweed was officially over, Canada was already rehearsing with his new band, Cody Canada and The Departed. Songs like “Alabama,” “17,” “Constantly,” “Anywhere But Here,” “Fightin For” and “This Time Around” (just to name a small few) made Ragweed one of the most popular bands of the outlaw country/Texas/Oklahoma music realm of the mid-90s to 2010.īut as head singer/songwriter/guitarist and part of the band’s namesake, Cody Canada, has noted in concert, he had 14 great years in the band and one really bad one. ![]() ![]() 24, 2010, it ended a highly successful 15-year run of being the kings of the Red Dirt music scene. SALT LAKE CITY - When Cross Canadian Ragweed played their final show on Oct.
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