Reckless Kelly, Cross Canadian tour together
The two bands, who are part of the Red Dirt music movement in Oklahoma and Texas, are slated to do seven shows together.
"I'll probably come back with a couple of good stories from (that run) I imagine," said Willy Braun of Reckless Kelly. "It's been a while since we've done a full-on tour with those guys, so that will be pretty fun."
Reckless Kelly just released their seventh album this week, "Somewhere in Time." CCR put out "Happiness and All the Other Things" in August 2009.
The decision to tour together arose after both bands returned from the sold-out 2010 MusicFest in Steamboat Springs, Col. where they shared the stage with Robert Earl Keen, Lee Ann Womack, Chris Knight and Dean Dillon. However, the relationship between the two bands extends to early days when they had similar performance circuits, including Lucy's in Austin, which both bands now call home.
"We've toured with a ton of bands," said Cross Canadian Ragweed's Cody Canada. "The two that we would tour non-stop with year round is Robert Earl Keen and Reckless Kelly. We first saw Reckless Kelly in 1998 in Dallas, and our jaws dropped, and we said that's who we need to jam with. After a couple of years of chasing those guys, we finally got to be friends with them. There's not a harder working band of brothers than our two bands, and we wear that like a badge of honor. We look forward to this run and the rehab that follows."
Tour dates are:
March 3 Nashville, TN - Cannery Ballroom
March 5 Charlotte, NC - Neighborhood Theatre
March 6 High Point, NC - Aquarius Music Hall
March 7 Raleigh, NC - Lincoln Theatre
March 9 Atlanta, GA - Variety Playhouse
March 10 Birmingham, AL - Workplay Theatre
March 11 Ruston, LA - Rabb's Steak House
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