When you learn he is native of New Orleans, spending his summers in Memphis growing up, moving to Oklahoma and  discovering Country & Gospel music, receiving an academic music education, and also living in Nashville for 3 years, Mike Ragland the drummer, starts to make more sense.

First professional band at 15, first studio recordings at 17, on the road at 18. 

While in college, he had the sheer good fortune to join up with established Country artist Don Hayes (Blue Jean Bandits, Oklahoma Twister), with whom he spent four years. 

 In 1991, he became the drummer for SonRise, a popular Canadian Christian Rock group and spent the next 2 ½ years with them, touring and recording across Canada and the U.S.

Mike is currently the drummer for One-Way Truckin' - one of the  premier Grateful Dead/Allman Brothers Tribute Bands that garners rave reviews wherever they play and continue to fill the Venue Shrine in Tulsa with their "First Sunday" residency shows.

February 2024 - July 2024:  Nashville Artist Jake Gill on Jake's Small Town Boy Tour. 

2023-  Singer/Songwriter Jesse Alan. 

2013 to 2023: Moonlight Ford and along the way, with The Legendary Miss Blues (Dorothy Ellis), Killin' Time Band, Jared Deck, High Speed Boom, and for 23 years, his dear friend, the late Pawnee Music Evangelist Ellis Horsechief .

From 2013-2015, he played in the house band for Leon Russell’s birthday celebrations alongside Leon’s longtime guitarist, Chris Simmons. 

He also logs considerable studio time with various Red Dirt, Country, Americana, R&B and Rock artists.

A Louisiana Creole, he likes Tabasco on… everything.