Cross Canadian Ragweed Purge Social Media, Reactivate Website Hinting That Something Is Coming in 2025

Cross Canadian Ragweed was one of the bands at the center of the rise of Red Dirt music in the mid-to-late 90s. Their fusion of country and rock helped to codify the sound of a movement. Then, after nearly 15 years, they parted ways in 2010 after drummer Randy Ragsdale left the band. Now, fans are speculating on what’s coming next from the Stillwater, Oklahoma-based band.

The speculation started when fans who were following their nearly defunct social media pages noticed major changes. The band scrubbed all posts from their Instagram account. Additionally, they changed the profile picture to a graphic of a cloth covering something. This prompted some fans to check out the band’s website which features the same image with “2025” emblazoned across the image. Before the major changes, the website had been deactivated for more than a decade and the social media account had been stagnant since shortly after the band split.

These major changes have led fans to speculate on what Cross Canadian Ragweed has planned for 2025.

Background on the Cross Canadian Ragweed Split

Cross Canadian Ragweed announced a hiatus from touring in May 2010. Randy Ragsdale stated that he needed to shift his priorities. “Right now, I need to be at home for my family, particularly my son JC, who has autism. He’s 10 years old now and still struggling with his development. I feel the only way I can help him is to be more hands-on and close to home,” he shared in the statement. Ragsdale hoped the band could find another drummer and keep moving forward. However, that wasn’t the case.

“We’ve always said from the start, We’re Ragweed as the four of us or not at all,” Cody Canada stated. In September 2010, Canada announced the end of the band with a final show at Joe’s Bar in Chicago, Illinois.

He would move on to have a successful career fronting The Departed. They even re-recorded the classic Ragweed album Soul Gravy in 2022. Earlier this year, Cody Canada and the Departed performed the album live during a festival. Ahead of the show, he spoke to Rolling Stone about the possibility of a reunion.

“People don’t realize the hard feelings that are still there. It’s like asking somebody who is divorced if they’ll get remarried. The answer is ‘F—k no,’ right? Well, what if somebody offers you three million dollars to get remarried? I’d love to be able to say yes, but I wouldn’t feel right about it,” he told the publication. “I wish people would remember what we actually sounded like. The best nights of their lives were some of the worst performances of my life,” he added.

Speculation Based on Recent Events

Fans are speculating about what Cross Canadian Ragweed has in the works. More specifically, many fans are looking at what other bands have done in recent years and hoping that CCR is following the same path.

For instance, Turnpike Troubadours, another high-profile red dirt band from Oklahoma made similar moves in late 2021. The band took a hiatus, and then years later, they scrubbed their social media and drastically changed their official website. Not long after that, they announced the first of many reunion concerts and released their comeback album A Cat in the Rain in 2023. Fans are hoping Cross Canadian Ragweed will follow in the footsteps of their fellow Oklahomans.

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More recently, Sturgill Simpson made waves with a countdown on his website. Many fans believed that he was going to announce another album or a tour. However, when the big reveal came, he was just releasing a remastered anniversary edition of Metamodern Sounds in Country Music.

No matter what happens, Cross Canadian Ragweed has given their fans something to look forward to.

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