CROSS CANADIAN RAGWEED

(Nashville) -- Country alt favorites CROSS CANADIAN RAGWEED just keep
turning their tour bus towards Texas!
At the request of Billy Bob's Texas, the world's largest nightclub, the band
is headed towards Fort Worth in December to record before a live audience on
the 21st at the venue. Ragweed will be featured on the latest "live at Billy
Bob's" project-the twelfth edition of the "live at" series recorded at the
club. Other artists included on the "live at" Billy Bob sessions include
names such as Merle Haggard, Roy Clark, Lynn Anderson, Johnny Lee, Janie
Fricke, Pat Green, and Cooder Graw.
To be released later in 2002, Ragweed will record more than a dozen songs for
the
project, produced by the Smith Music Group and distributed by L.A. based
Image Entertainment.
The inclusion of Cross Canadian Ragweed was by popular demand. Noted Rick
Smith of the Smith Music Group: " On their last engagement here in Fort
Worth at Billy Bob's, Ragweed blew the house out! We looked at each other
and said, 'we have to have this band!'"
The band is turning up the heat, in fact, all over the Lone Star State. On a
recent show in Lubbock, Ragweed drew such a crowd that the fire Marshall shut
down the venue with an over count of 300 fans jamming in for their dose of
Cross Canadian Ragweed.

(Nashville) -- Alternative country renegades "Cross Canadian Ragweed," are
proving with the current moves in their career that artistic innovation can
indeed merge uncompromisingly with mainstream success. Their break above the
waves is currently generating major label attention from several corners
within the industry. A major label-signing announcement is anticipated early
in 2002.

Ragweed's current album, "Highway 377," is already an underground cult
success in the alternative country market. The first single from the album
titled "Jimmy & Annie," made an impressive debut at #9 in the Texas charts as
an out of the box freshman venture for the unsigned Oklahoma band.

Ragweed's new video, "Look At Me," shot in a Dallas warehouse, was directed
by Darren Cameron, who also directed recent alt-genre successes "Lonesome
Sky" for The Bastard Sons Of Johnny Cash and "Down the Line" for Los Straight
Jackets.
Ragweed, led by rock influenced lead guitarist/singer/songwriter Cody Canada
has come to alternative country with a full suitcase of offline music, much
of it written by Canada that, as witnessed by the band's legion of fans, has
obviously struck a responsive musical chord with audiences.

Cross Canadian Ragweed has forged their career at the grassroots "word of
mouth" level, touring for the past seven years throughout the Midwest and
southwest with a heavy schedule of clubs and venues under 2,000. A major
concentration of their scheduling has been in Texas, where Ragweed has built
a huge fan base. "The phones ring off the hook on Ragweed," noted Cory
McDaniel of Austin Universal Entertainment, Inc. Ragweed's responsible agent.
"We can't accommodate all the incoming avail calls for dates on the band,
which is a fabulous problem to have with a group at this level."

Major upcoming dates on Cross Canadian Ragweed include Steamboat Springs,
Colorado, January 1-8th the "Third Annual Ski Trip," an event that last year
drew 7,000 attendees. Other artists set to appear include Pat Green, Cory
Morrow,
and Jason Boland. Ragweed will appear on February 1st at the Galveston,
Texas Mardi Gras.

Ragweed will embark on an East Coast with support by fellow alt-country
favorites, Reckless Kelly, in March. Concert dates are already set in Baton
Rouge, New Orleans, Oxford, Birmingham, Atlanta, Charlotte Winston-Salem,
Washington D.C., Boston, and New York.

Cross Canadian Ragweed will break in January to be back in the studio.