Our crew now is five people and two dogs so having space for people to get off their butt and into a bed is real important. “We have a Ford 350 shuttle bus we tour in now,” wrote Benjamin Tod in an email. “It’s been a huge upgrade.
Since meeting as teenagers at a punk rock show in Nashville, the two have traipsed across America playing music with their dog, Copper, in tow.
The Kentucky-based Americana band is made up of married couple Benjamin and Ashley Mae Todd with the recent addition of bassist Jeff Loops.īenjamin’s voice has been described by Rolling Stone as “distant and immediate, old and pure of feeling.” Their music channels a certain criminal element of folk and country harkening back to Johnny Cash and Steve Earl which seems to have since been left by the tracks of the mainstream.īut it all but makes sense when looking at the years that Benjamin and Mae had spent hopping freight trains. Lost Dog Street Band is playing Tower Theatre on Tuesday, August 13th.
