Benjamin Tod & Lost Dog Street Band with special guest Matt Heckler

After dark country trio Lost Dog Street Band released its 2022 album Glory, bandleader Benjamin Tod decided it was time to retire the project. Tod, alongside his wife Ashley Mae (fiddle), had been working together as a band since 2011. ?I came to terms with letting go of Lost Dog completely, which is how I evaluate a lot of things in general,? explains Tod. ?Oftentimes when I?m trying to make a really hard decision, I go ahead and go through the process of mourning its death and accepting that I am going to lose it.? But just a month after recording a solo project in January of 2023, Tod felt an urge to revisit the project one more time. That new direction began in the recording process, when Tod decided to swap out their traditional recording style of overdubbing parts in favor of recording everything live. It was an experience he was introduced to during his solo album, and found the process so successful that it, in part, led to his decision to revive Lost Dog.