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Agriculture Club

R.I.P! Come see Black Dirt of the West, July '08!

About Me

While most contemporary trends in alt-country tend towards the earnest and the sparse, Calgary’s Agriculture Club sow their sonic seeds with the hard-hitting ferocity of a drunken tractor fight. This latest full-length effort from the Stetson-sporting quartet kicks off with a muscled-up, spaghetti western-style instrumental lifted straight out of the Ennio Morricone songbook before being doused in purple gasoline and set ablaze in the burning barrel. A triptych of trucking songs follows, each one written and presented with enough knowing confidence to suggest these Cowtowners have probably run real rigs through a dozen-or-so gears on more than a few occasions. The band maintain a keen balance between rip-snorting rock and wailing twang throughout the disc’s dozen tracks without getting bogged down in formulaic ground. Though the tunes are typically informed with humour, a prevailing element of reverence indicates these guys take their rock a little more seriously than appearances may suggest.-- Chuck Molgat, Exclaim Magazine

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Member Since: 8/2/2005
Band Website: agricultureclub.com
Band Members: The Rubber Duck, Waylon Nelson, Gordon Leadfoot, Billy Ray Virus
Influences: Old Country, Classic Metal & Punk rock
Sounds Like: Johnny Cash meets AC/DC
Record Label: Transistor 66
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

OK, now not so exaggerated.

Rick aka Rubber Duck here. After a while it turns out that most of the Ag Club Boys had done ther time in the country-fried punk-metal scene and are now onto other great bands, namely the Black Coffee...
Posted by Agriculture Club on Mon, 12 May 2008 01:56:00 PST

Rumours of our death are greatly exaggerated!

Hey all, Rubber Duck here. Seeing as we've played one show in the last year, peeps are starting to say that we're done. WTF? Let me set you straight! Its been over 9 years since Waylon and I star...
Posted by Agriculture Club on Fri, 27 Apr 2007 02:52:00 PST

Sad News

Howdy Pardners, Waylon here.So we have some bad news. Gordie Leadfoot, aka Cam Hayden, has left Agriculture Club due to "personal reasons". It's not because he has another successful band (the Cripp...
Posted by Agriculture Club on Tue, 28 Nov 2006 10:40:00 PST

Gearhead!

Breaker One-Nine! This is the Rubber Duck here. You may be noticing that we ain't been posting any new shows up on the 'ol website and maybe yer one of the zillion people emailing us trying to book us...
Posted by Agriculture Club on Mon, 02 Oct 2006 07:17:00 PST

R.I.P. Ol' Rusty

Howdy Pardners...It was a sad weekend for us here in Ag Club. Not because we totally rocked out here in Calgary (at the Palomino) and in Benalto (for Alberta's Own Independant Music Festival - which ...
Posted by Agriculture Club on Mon, 17 Jul 2006 09:06:00 PST

STAAAAAAAMMMMPEEEEEDE

Howdy Pardners, Waylon here.Friends, in Calgary right now they are whipping themselves up in a frenzy. Why, you ask? Of course, it's time for the Calgary Stampede! Now if you don't live in Calgary ...
Posted by Agriculture Club on Thu, 06 Jul 2006 01:06:00 PST

AAAARGH!

Howdy Pards...You know when you have one of THOSE shows? Last night we played a 3-setter in Lacombe, Alberta. Now before I go on, I have to say the people at the Lacombe Hotel are really nice. They...
Posted by Agriculture Club on Sat, 08 Apr 2006 03:03:00 PST

Gettin' Busy

Howdy pardners, Waylon here...Whoo-dawgie are we gettin busy! We just played Canmore (which was a totally drunken crazy good time, although I had to leave at 8am the next morning to make it to work -...
Posted by Agriculture Club on Tue, 21 Mar 2006 12:02:00 PST

Happy New Year

Howdy Pardners... Hope everyone had a truly Merry Christmas and is gearing up for an awesome New Years! It has been an awesome year for Ag Club. New CD "The Horse Always Gets It First", huge tour,...
Posted by Agriculture Club on Thu, 29 Dec 2005 12:29:00 PST

January 13 show at Broken City

Howdy pardners... Just droppin a quick line to announce that The Black Coffee Cowboys and the Killbillies, both friends of ours on this here Myspace thingie, will be opening up for us on the January ...
Posted by Agriculture Club on Tue, 06 Dec 2005 01:19:00 PST