Hi. Hi, this is Shelby and Quinn backstage at the Grandol Opry with Benjamin Todd and Ashley

May of Lost Dog Street Band and you guys have the saddest songs that I've ever heard.

Specifically you, Benjamin, I heard some of your songs and it like cut me to my core but

at Whiskey Riff were known for loving

sad country music so it is definitely our kind of music that we love.

So I will move it forward with this question for you been you've got your solo career of course and then you

also have the Lost Dog Street Band so is there any sort of way that you differentiate

between the two or do you kind of see them as two different things but you're doing them at once if that makes sense?

Hmm.

Upon the inception of both yes there was a difference.

Benjamin Todd kind of came out of of both. Yes, there was a difference.

Benjamin Todd kind of came out of me and her separated for a couple years in 2017,

because I was a terrible person and I deserved that.

But about a year and a half two years later,

we started kind of rebuilding.

And that's when I Will Rise came out of sort of me rebuilding my life.

And originally, Benjamin Dodd Project was set to be pretty strictly solo,

just in the end of guitar.

And then Lost Dog continued through and both were kind of processing records at the same time or, you know, one half a year, one half a year. Now I've recorded a honky-tunk record for Benjamin Todd,

so I don't really know what the general difference is.

I think it's kind of a feeling.

Lost Dogg has a feeling.

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