The Sheepdogs

Canada's Juno Award-winning Sheepdogs fuse three-part vocal harmonies and interlocking guitar lines into a classic rock base, then layer in Southern boogie rhythms, psychedelic grooves, and rowdy blues-bar energy to create their contemporary take on rock & roll. Formed in 2004, the Saskatoon-based quartet broke through commercially in 2010 when their third album, the platinum-certified Learn & Burn, topped Canadian charts. Subsequent releases—The Sheepdogs (2012), Future Nostalgia (2015), Changing Colours (2018), and Outta Sight (2022)—kept the group at the top of the domestic album rankings.

The lineup centers on Ewan Currie on vocals and guitar, Jimmy Bowskill on guitar, Ryan Gullen on bass, and Sam Corbett on drums, with Currie's brother Shamus adding brass and keyboards. Before their major-label breakthrough the band issued three independent long-players: Trying to Grow in 2006, Big Stand in 2008, and the Juno-winning Learn & Burn in 2010. A victory in Rolling Stone's "Choose the Cover" contest placed them on the magazine's August 2011 issue; later that year they followed with the EP Five Easy Pieces and, in 2012, their self-titled fourth studio album. Produced by Patrick Carney of The Black Keys, that record earned the Sheepdogs their second platinum plaque.

"Downtown," released as a single in July 2015, preceded the October arrival of their fifth album, Future Nostalgia, which received a 2016 Juno nomination for Rock Album of the Year. The sixth studio set, Changing Colours, appeared in 2018 and included the single "I've Got a Hole Where My Heart Should Be." In 2022 the band delivered the exuberant, melody-driven Outta Sight.