Saskatoon, or “The Paris of The Prairies,” as the person who wrote the Wikipedia entry on the subject calls it, is a city that is often overlooked within the spectrum of the Canadian music scene. This is an error that they’ve tried to correct through a near successful attempt at ritual sacrifice, but perhaps they don’t have to go to such great lengths.
After all, this is the city where Joni Mitchell spent her formative years, the city that gave us legendary jugband Humphrey And The Dumptrucks, the “rowdy” Roderick George Toombs, the spiky Northern Pikes, and the inexplicably yet reliably funky Wide Mouth Mason.
More recently Saskatoon has been home to Rolling Stone discoveries The Sheepdogs, stoner metal mood factory Shooting Guns, the violent violins of Black Tremor, the peerless Paranoid Castle, the pyjama pop of Jeans Boots, and the wild reverberations of Feral Children.
For these Personal Views columns, to try and get a better understanding of what’s happening in a given scene at the moment, we speak to a handful of representatives, highlighting a multitude of perspectives to provide a much more nuanced view of what issues and sounds are unique to that place. Inevitably, opinions and recommendations overlap, but it’s rare for the same issue to be stressed across the board.
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