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Best known as part of the voice and vision of the wonderfully rebellious alt-country act
Cross Canadian Ragweed,
Cody Canada has a solid place on the Red Dirt/Americana scene, having also worked with
Ray Wylie Hubbard,
Mike McClure,
Stephanie Briggs, and
Stoney LaRue, among others. When
Cross Canadian Ragweed went on extended hiatus in 2010, breaking up officially a year later,
Canada and
Ragweed bassist Jeremy Plato joined with guitarist
Seth James, keyboardist Steve Littleton, and drummer Dave Bowen to form
Cody Canada & the Departed in 2011. A debut album from the new configuration, This Is Indian Land, was released by Underground Sound that same summer. Adventūs arrived in 2012, followed by HippieLovePunk in 2015, the latter of which was the first
Departed album to not feature
Seth James on guitar, who left the band (amicably) in 2013. In 2016, the band released a covers LP under the moniker Jeremy Plato & the Departed, which featured covers of classic country songs with bassist Plato taking the lead. ~ Steve Leggett