Cody Canada & the Departed at Duling Hall on December 12

meet Cody Canada & the Departed

Cody Canada first rose to fame as the leader of the rabble-rousing alt-country act Cross Canadian Ragweed, and later launched a solo career that found him following a similar formula of barnstorming rock & roll with strong country and blues influences. Canada’s work with Cross Canadian Ragweed took the influences of the Southwestern Red Dirt music community and paired them with solid, high-spirited musicianship and rowdy but literate songs, and the prolific band (ten albums between 2001 and 2009) was at the peak of their strength when Canada headed out as a solo artist.

Cody Canada was born in Pampa, Texas in 1976 and first developed a passion for music when his folks took him to a George Strait concert when he was just five years old. At the age of eight, Canada started playing guitar, and by the time he was a teenager, his family had relocated to Yukon, Oklahoma, where he became friends with a handful of guys who shared his love of outlaw country and hard-edged rock & roll.

In 2010 Cross Canadian Ragweed announced they were going on an extended hiatus, a time-out that became permanent the following year when Ragsdale and Cross amicably resigned to spend more time off the road and with their families.

Canada recruited Plato to play in his new project, Cody Canada & the Departed, featuring Seth James on guitar, Steve Littleton on keyboards, and Dave Bowen on drums. Canada’s first album with the Departed, This Is Indian Land, was released through Underground Sound in the summer of 2011. Adventūs (credited just to the Departed, though Canada appeared on the album) arrived in 2012, followed by the hard rockin’ HippieLovePunk in 2015, with Canada once again taking star billing over the band.

Canada took a slight creative detour with 2015’s Chip & Ray, Together Again for the First Time, a live album that documented a concert he performed in tandem with fellow songwriter Mike McClure. Canada turned down his rock influences just a bit on his next album with the Departed, 2018’s 3, a more thoughtful collection that included guest appearances from Robert Earl Keen and Danny Barnes.

Doors – 6:30pm | Show – 7:30pm

Listen to them on Spotify to get a sneak peek of what you’ll be seeing on December 12th live at Duling Hall!

Our friends at Saltine Restaurant serve a food menu from doors to showtime and provide a full bar with signature cocktails throughout the entire event.

Duling Hall is an Independent Venue that welcomes all music lovers.