Cross Canadian Ragweed Blows into Few Quad

They're a little bit country. They're a little bit rock-n-roll. But Cross Canadian Ragweed is 100-percent entertaining, and on Friday, November 8, they roll into Durham for a live show on Few Quad. Music Editor David Walters caught up with drummer Randy Ragsdale to talk about video games, vehicles and what makes him sneeze.

Recess: What type of music do you play? Do you attract more country or rock-n-roll fans?

Randy: Well, it's really Americana. We consider ourselves a rock-n-roll band that grew up listening to country. Sometimes we'll have little kids out there singing and other times there'll be a 60-year old man dancing around.

You guys log quite a few miles while touring. What do you do to pass the time on the road?

We've got an Xbox in the back of the bus. We're playing Turok right now, but we're fixin' to get Grand Theft Auto. [Jeremy] Plato, our bass player, has a skateboard, and I'm getting a longboard soon.

You recently shared the stage with the Dixie Chicks. How big of a thrill was that?

That was very exciting. We were at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas, sitting up in the press box, and the next thing we know we're getting summoned to the stage. [Laughs] We just about shit ourselves.

I've heard one of your songs is actually featured in a television commercial.

[Long pause] Nothing really.Wow, that's a weird question.

I'm sorry. The answer was pollen and pet dander. Barring some career-shattering hay fever epidemic, where do you see CCR in five years?

I'd like to be doing the same thing we're doing now. We just wanna play. We're a live band, and we like touring, and that's what we'd like to keep going as long as we possibly can.