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By the time his old friend, singer-songwriter Radney Foster, got around to telling Tim DuBois about Cross Canadian Ragweed, DuBois had heard it all before. At least three other times in the previous two weeks, to be exact. "It was just one of those weird things," laughs DuBois. "In a really short time, their name kept popping up. It started with one of Pat Green’s managers. He said, ‘You’ve got to see this band.’ And a few days later, I was asking Bill Minick, the owner of Billy Bob’s Texas in Ft. Worth, ‘What’s hot?’ Because he’s really got his finger on the pulse there in Texas. And he said, ‘Cross Canadian Ragweed.’ A week later, Joe Avezzano [special teams coach for the Dallas Cowboys], who’s an old friend, was visiting Nashville and he stopped by the office and said, ‘My kid dragged me out to see a band the other night that was really cool…’ And then Radney Foster! I just felt like God was tapping me on the shoulder, saying ‘pay attention!’" Of course, Cross...