Benjamin Todwalked away from theLost Dog Street Bandin late 2022.
He barely caught his breath before he wrote the perfect Lost Dog record.
Shooting Star, released last month, marked a sharp turn into old-school honky-tonk music for Tod.
Benjamin Tod, leader of Lost Dog Street Band, got his start busking in Nashville; he’s ready for his taste of Music City’s pie.Starla Groves*
When we listened, we were just like, These arent honky-tonk enough.
They dont fit the style.
Theyre more Lost Dog, Tod tellsRolling Stone.
We went back in April, with Lost Dog, and cut that record.
Tod and his wife, fiddle player Ashley Mae, formed Lost Dog Street Ban d in 2011.
Music is like 10 percent of my life, he says.
Like, Im tearing down an engine.
I am proposing things to the board of the nonprofit that Im on.
Or its hunting season and I disappear for two weeks.
That was the attitude I went into writing with.
The song is a repudiation of the cowboy culture that Tod saw taking over Nashville.
This shit happens all the time.
I had to say, Hey, dumbass.
You see that empty spot on the building, where they paint the murals?
My face is gonna be there tomorrow.
Its heavy on fiddle and steel guitar, and there are some high-profile guest appearances.
Nashville favorite Timbo contributes backing vocals to I Aint the Man.
Im proud of her to no end.
Its the hippest spot.
Fuck L.A. Fuck Atlanta.
Its Nashville where everything is happening.
