Shaggy Sheepdogs disorder from competition fame

Ewan Currie, who hails from a Canadian level city of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, won’t batten down a hatches for another dour winter. Instead, a lead thespian of a roots-rocking Sheepdogs has purchased a craft sheet for an exotic, and most warmer, getaway.

“I’m entrance to San Francisco around Christmastime, and I’m going to use it as a possibility to get divided and kind of collect my ideas for a subsequent album,” he says. “I adore a low-pitched story there, like Sly and a Family Stone, Santana, Creedence. It’s got some mojo, so we figured it’d be a cold place to go, somewhere I’d feel comfortable.”

The Sheepdogs, though, initial will strike The City on Monday, opening for Black Joe Lewis during a Fillmore, and subsidy their U.S.-introductory EP for Atlantic, “Five Easy Pieces.”

On his Dec vacation, Currie — who visited San Francisco dual years ago with an ex-girlfriend and fell in adore with it — will be going stag.

“I spend all my time around a guys in a band, and we get along fine,” he says. “But I’m looking brazen to only doing something totally by myself.”

The 27-year-old ex-bartender will have a lot to simulate on, looking behind over a surreal 2011.

After 3 albums adult North, a Sheepdogs entered Rolling Stone magazine’s new Garnier Fructis-sponsored “Choose a Cover” competition, and gradually degraded 15 other artists to win a cover spread, and a agreement with Atlantic.

“We’d spent a improved partial of four, 5 years going behind and onward adult in Canada, doing it a slow, long, tough way,” he says. “So we saw this competition as an event to get created adult in a biggest stone repository of all time. And winning? It’s only finished a universe of disproportion for us.”

“Pieces” cuts like “Who?” and “I Don’t Know” are brawny slabs ofSkynyrd-Allmans blues.

Yet one strict engineer indeed lonesome his ears on initial conference a Sheepdogs during their coming on “Project Runway,” in that teams had to emanate adorned new wardrobes for a band. Currie was teeth-gritting friendly in his awkward, ill-fitting suit.

“We come from a level city with a good working-class element, though we’re not genuine and we’re all intelligent guys,” he says. “Still, ‘Project Runway’ was like zero we’ve ever finished before.”

Garnier also sent a Sheepdogs copiousness of nominal hairproducts.

“But we’re looking flattering fluffy right now, since we’re in debate mode,” Currie says. “So we’re behind to the common denim and boots, and looking like we only rolled out of bed!”

IF YOU GO

The Sheepdogs

Opening for Black Joe Lewis

Where: The Fillmore, 1805 Geary Blvd., San Francisco

When: 8 p.m. Monday

Tickets: $29

Contact: (415) 346-6000,www.livenation.com