Cody Canada & The Departed

Tickets available at all Vallitix locations including the Buck Owens’ Crystal Palace Box Office, Charge by phone 661-322-5200 and Vallitix.com

As the frontman of Cross Canadian Ragweed, Cody Canada spent years swirling Southern rock, Dustbowl country and roadhouse roots music into songs that celebrated the ups and downs of life in middle America. He was the poster boy for the Red Dirt movement, a proud outsider who could camp out in the upper reaches of the country charts — and sell more than a million copies of the band’s albums, to boot — without playing by the rules of the Nashville machine. Even the band’s own breakup bucked convention, with the guys deciding to throw in the towel after releasing four Top 10 records in a row.