IT’S HAPPENING.
Or is it? While there has been no verbal communication with fans, the sudden surge in social media activity is leading country music fans all over to believe there is a Cross Canadian Ragweed reunion on the horizon.
At the beginning of the week, the Stillwater, Oklahoma group updated their social media for the first time since 2011, which sent fans into a spiral. Along with the social media update, their website shows a curtain covering something, with the words “2025” written over it. Naturally, this led fans to believe they are cooking up a reunion tour or reunion album in 2025.
Of course, it could be something as simple as a reissue, but fans are hoping for a full blown reunion.
After the band sadly broke up in 2010, fans have kept their fingers and toes crossed over the last decade that the Red Dirt icons would eventually get back together. As pioneers of the Red Dirt scene, Cross Canadian Ragweed is a staple listen among country music fans in Oklahoma, Texas and beyond.
Today, the group made another slight move that sent social media into a tizzy. They put a cover photo up on their Facebook page. The image highlights the group on stage from Steamboat’s The MusicFest many years ago.
The festival’s official account even commented on the photo, confirming that they “know that stage.” While there have been theories on social media that the group might get back together for a hometown show at Stillwater’s The Tumbleweed, does this image choice mean they could be playing The MusicFest in 2025?
Only time will tell at this point, but given an interview that Cody Canada, the lead singer for Ragweed who now fronts Cody Canada & the Departed (along with CCR’s Jeremy Plato on bass), gave earlier this year, I am still skeptical. When talking with Rolling Stone, he made clear a reunion was off the table.
“The offers I get for Ragweed are really hard to overlook sometimes. But 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*ck 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.
And 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.”
But hey… things can change, right? A Ragweed reunion show would heal the world. Please don’t play with our hearts, Cross Canadian Ragweed.
“Boys From Oklahoma”