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The Sheepdogs

The Sheepdogs
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The Sheepdogs performing in August 2011
Background information
Origin Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada
Genres
Years active 2006–present
Labels
Website www.thesheepdogs.com
Members Ewan Currie
Ryan Gullen
Sam Corbett
Jimmy Bowskill
Shamus Currie
Rusty Matyas
Past members Leot Hanson
The Sheepdogs awards and nominations
Awards and nominations
Award Wins Nominations
CASBY Awards
3 3
CBC Radio 3 Bucky Awards
1
Western Canadian Music Awards
1 1
Junos
3 3
Totals
Awards won 7
Nominations 8

The Sheepdogs are a Canadian rock and roll band formed in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan in 2006. The group consists of lead singer and guitarist Ewan Currie, bass guitarist Ryan Gullen, drummer Sam Corbett, guitarist Jimmy Bowskill, and Shamus Currie, brother of lead singer Ewan Currie, playing trombone, keyboards, and tambourine. The Sheepdogs became the first unsigned band to make the cover of Rolling Stone in 2011 and have since grown to popularity in Canada and the United States.

Frontman Ewan Currie describes the band's retro, guitar driven blues-rock style as "pure, simple, good-time music". Their distinctive sound has been called the "Guitar-mony" because of the use of harmonies in guitar solos and vocals. The Sheepdogs consider their style to be somewhere between the riff heavy bombast of Led Zeppelin and the melodies and harmonies of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. Currie often credits groups Sly and the Family Stone, Humble Pie, Creedence Clearwater Revival, and The Allman Brothers Band as influences on his style.

The Sheepdogs tours frequently between recordings, and has played at a number of large festivals including South by Southwest in Austin, TX, Edgefest in Toronto and Ottawa's Bluesfest and City Folk Festival.

Ewan Currie was born in Australia, but moved to Saskatoon at 11 where he met Ryan Gullen. The pair went to different middle schools but met in a regional music program once a week where they both played clarinet. Currie and Gullen grew to be close friends at Evan Hardy high school in Saskatoon; in their spare time they learned to play guitar. Currie played defensive line for the school's football team and appeared in a number of school theatre productions.

Currie and Gullen met Sam Corbett while attending the University of Saskatchewan, and the three decided to form a band. Corbett had an old bass guitar and a gift certificate to a local music store, so they rented a drum kit and started playing in Corbett's parents’ basement with Corbett on drums, Gullen playing the bass, and Currie playing a recently purchased electric guitar. They honed their skills playing seventies blues-rock songs as well as newer material, including covers of the early Black Keys and Kings of Leon, while also writing their own music. Currie, Gullen, and Corbett called their trio The Breaks and released an EP in 2006.


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