“I wanted to dig under the darkest impulses of humanity for this
album which are violence, selfishness, and destruction,” says
Benjamin Tod, guitarist, vocalist, and primary songwriter of Americana
trio Lost Dog Street Band. The Muhlenberg County, Kentucky-based
group’s latest album, its fifth overall, Weight Of A Trigger, out
March 29th, is a potent distillation of its outlaw heartache soul. The
three-piece group’s latest, Weight Of A Trigger, is a portal into
when Americana was peopled by sensitive outlaws who pleaded for
salvation in song. The 10-song collection spans old-time music,
Appalachian folk, redemptive country blues, and winsome balladry. Each
song is elegantly essential, using teardrop pedal steel guitar,
delicate finger-picked passages, emotive harmony vocals, and stately
violin touches as delicate dynamic touches. It’s an album of hard
truths themed around a three-part narrative of Thomas Clancy Russell,
and stories of fated love, addiction, tragic deaths, and rising
demons. The poetic former collaborator Nicholas Ridout, a uniquely
gifted musician who left before his time is always honored on their
albums. His presence is made all the more poignant by Lost Street Dog
performing his sweetly high lonesome song “Lazy Moonshiner.”
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