This bright Sunday morning we have on the menu some hyper-gravitational rock and roll from the best redneck country band on the scene. Try a hot plate full of ‘Don’t Need You’:

Cross Canadian Ragweed broke out big in 2004, after relentlessly touring for about a decade. Damn near every student at A&M loves them, and has seen them live a dozen times. They’ve been here a bunch, including at this year’s Chilifest in Snook, which is right down the road from College Station. Chilifest is the redneck version of Woodstock.

I’ve missed CCR so far, but plan to remedy that lack as soon as possible. It’s getting harder, because they used to play small venues for cheap, and now they’re headliners.

I have a memory of extended father-daughter exaltation, listening to their ‘Purple Album’ with She Who is Awesome on a soft Friday evening, gliding through the hills and brush outside Dripping Springs on the way to a tree-worshipping neopagan weekend. It’s a classic road-trip album.

They’re far from being a one-trick pony, though. Their song ‘Broken’ will hurt you. I can’t find it on the net, nor can I find their signature song, ‘Boys from Oklahoma’, which is the rowdiest song about smokin’ dope that I’ve ever heard. You might try creating a CCR station at Pandora. I listen to mine often.

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Here are some more CCR vids:

Sick and Tired

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Fightin’ For

Constantly

Alabama

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