History
Vern Sanden purchased what was then North Country Music in 1973 and renamed it "Oar Folkjokeopus" (the name was based on the solo album Oar by Alexander "Skip" Spence, a founding member of Jefferson Airplane and Moby Grape and an album by British folk musician Roy Harper, Folkjokeopus). Peter Jesperson managed the store from 1974 until 1984. Jesperson co-founded Twin/Tone Records during this time and the store as well as the label thrived due in large part to each other. Between Twin/Tone, local venue The Longhorn and Oar Folk, this trifecta largely fueled the punk and rock scene in Minneapolis during that era. Bands such as The Replacements, the Suburbs, Flamin' Oh's, Hüsker Dü, Soul Asylum, Jayhawks, and Curtiss A all maintained links between the three.
In 1984, a fire completely gutted out Oar Folk, and all of its staff left. Vern Sanden reopened the record store with the help of Mark Trehus, who ran his own indie record label, Treehouse Records.
It was shortly after the fire that Terry Katzman and Jim Peterson opened their own store Garage D'or.
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