Outta Sight

The Sheepdogs’ music has always had a time-traveling quality, their Southern-styled riffs and shaggy grooves instantly placing you behind the wheel of a Camaro en route to some all-night bonfire party circa 1976. And in the wake of the pandemic, their desire to live every day like it’s *Dazed and Confused* has only intensified. The Sheepdogs’ seventh album, *Outta Sight*, was conceived as a cure-all for the COVID blues, a classic-rock booster shot loaded with twin-guitar boogie, sunny soul, and a have-a-good-time-all-the-time bonhomie. Whether it’s staking out the middle ground between Skynyrd swing and Thin Lizzy leads (“Find the Truth”), doling out Doobie-worthy harmonies (“I Wanna Know You”), or firing up the drum machine like Eric Clapton busking with a boom box (“So Far Gone”), *Outta Sight* wholly succeeds in its mission to make you forget the early 2020s ever happened.