Stony Plain is based in Edmonton, Alberta. The label specializes in what its founder Holger Petersen calls roots music: Contemporary music with roots in the past that stands on its own, but which influences almost all other music forms. Established in 1976, the label has released over 400 albums of blues and roots music that is impossible to put into neat pigeonholes. The common element in all of these forms of music is that the musicians, regardless of current fad or fashion, put their hearts and souls into the music they make. Stony Plain released the results – and almost invariably found that people responded.