Saskatoon rockers The Sheepdogs rocked the stage on night two of the Bluewater Borderfest at Centennial Park in Sarnia on Friday, June 23, 2023.
Prior to the festival, The Sheepdogs bassist Ryan Gullen caught up with SWOMP’s Dana Haggith for an interview.
Gullen discussed their upcoming slate of shows taking place across Canada, including the Sarnia show.
Listen to the interview, below:
The hard-living, straight up rock ‘n’ roll band released ‘Outta Sight’ in June of 2022, the grooviest, simplest, most penetrating album of their career.
Recorded during the pandemic the band—Ewan Currie, Ryan Gullen, Sam Corbett, Jimmy Bowskill and Shamus Currie—were, like the rest of us, confused, cast ashore, and feeling isolated during COVID.
Their response was to do what came most naturally to them: making stripped-down rock ‘n’ roll.
“It’s a weird world. Everybody stuck in place, overthinking absolutely everything. We wanted to avoid all that—just get in the room, plug in your guitar and go. So that’s what we did,” says singer Ewan Currie, who cut most of the album’s tracks in three takes. “Themes like optimism in the face of adversity, standing tall and staying strong, knowing that better times are around the corner kept coming through when making the record and it felt really damned good to play.”
For more details visit https://thesheepdogs.com/.
The full Borderfest schedule can be found, here.