Keep Out Of The Storm

Sound DNA

• Rock
• Southern Rock

• warm
• swaggering
• southern

About

The title of The Sheepdogs’ eighth album provides a pretty succinct summation of the Saskatoon band’s outlook on life, as their buoyant Southern boogie can instantly provide a sunlit sanctuary in the darkest of days. From its introductory lead-guitar lick, <i>Keep Out of the Storm</i> boasts the familiar, worked-in feel of an FM-radio staple: “Nobody but You” stakes the middle ground between the Allman Brothers’ Peachtree soul and Bad Company’s arena-rock crunch, while the jaunty twinned-guitar swing of “I Do” suggests fellow Canadian veterans Sloan on a Laurel Canyon retreat. Following the 2025 departure of longtime drummer Sam Corbett, The Sheepdogs recorded <i>Keep Out of the Storm</i> with a rotating cast of timekeepers that included members of Born Ruffians and July Talk. But despite the personnel shuffles behind the kit, <i>Keep Out of the Storm</i> stays locked in a feel-good groove, be it the Louisiana-flavored funk of “Playing All Night Long,” the simmering brass-blasted blues of “Take a Look at Me Riding,” or the surprisingly Floydian thrust of “The Owl.”

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