I’m going back and adding my stories from LoneStarMusic Magazine. This was the cover story of the August/September issue. It loses a little in the intro without the multiple pictures of Charlie’s one facial expression, but you can see that version by clicking this link. Onward to the text.

The following is an interview I did with Cody Canada and Jeremy Plato for the cover story of LoneStarMusic Magazine during the fall of 2009.

Happiness and All the Other Things. Sounds good, doesn’t it? It’s an apt title for the tenth album from Cross Canadian Ragweed in this, their fifteenth year as a band.

While two members of the band – Grady Cross (rhythm guitar) and Randy Ragsdale (drums) – are back in their home base of Oklahoma, happiness is certainly the theme at an early lunch of sushi as …

Randy Rogers Q&A
by Michael Devers
September 2008

Yes, the Randy Rogers Band is on Mercury Nashville. Yes, their label mates include Sugarland, Billy Currington, and Bon Jovi. And yes, they will be making an appearance during the annual Nashville orgy know as Fan Fest. But if there’s anyone out there yelling “sellout!” they’re either not paying attention or they’re just willfully ignorant.
To start with, the lead track on the band’s new CD, Randy Rogers Band, wasn’t written by some Nashville “song doctor”, or for that matter, even by Randy Rogers. …