Benjamin Tod & Lost Dog Street Band: Shooting Star Album Release Tour

Sat Dec 7 2024

8:00 PM (Doors 7:00 PM)

The Mill & Mine

227 W. Depot Avenue Knoxville, TN 37917

$37.02

Ages 18+

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PUBLIC ON SALE: Friday, September 20th at 10am ET

Advance Price: $30 + fees / Day of Show Price: $35+ fees


VIP Experience Package:  $130 + Fees
includes: 
- One (1) GA ticket to the show
- Private 3 song performance from Ben   
- Q & A with Ben
- Group Photo
- Signed Tour Poster
- Signed VIP Laminate
- Early Access to Merch
- Early Entry to the venue (beginning 75 mins before doors open to regular ticket buyers) 

VIP Experience ticket purchasers should plan to arrive 75 minutes prior to doors in order to participate in the VIP experience. Expect to receive an email 48 hours prior to the show with more details. 


In order to prevent secondary market re-sale activity there is a delivery delay on everyone's tickets. You will receive an email from Ticketweb 72 hours prior to the show's start time. You can pull up the tickets on your phone and scan them at the door.

This event is 18+, unless accompanied by a parent or legal guardian. No refunds will be issued for failure to produce proper identification.

This ticket is valid for standing room only, general admission. ADA accomodations are available day of show.

Benjamin Tod & Lost Dog Street Band: Shooting Star Album Release Tour

  • Benjamin Tod & Lost Dog Street Band

    Benjamin Tod & Lost Dog Street Band

    Alternative Country

    Sitting at a corner café table, Benjamin Tod’s eyes light up when asked what it’s like to finally
    embrace happiness and accept love. With a slight grin, he sips his coffee and leans back, one
    arm draped casually and comfortably over the chair.

    “I’m kind of settling into my age, into allowing myself to be happy,” the 33-year-old says. “For
    years, I led myself and the people around me into a lot of unnecessary darkness. And now, I’ve
    learned how to give and receive affection — it’s helped heal a lot of parts of myself.”
    Tod’s demeanor is a far cry from his usual stiff posture stance with arms folded, this permeating
    sense of trepidation and scrutiny for what trouble may be coming down the pike. The relaxed,
    calm aura is a sign of a human being who has overcome lifelong personal demons, one who
    has finally become liberated — not only in his personal life, but also his music.
    “This latest record is so unusual for what I do,” Tod says. “It’s almost a spite album, to prove
    what I can do as a writer in whatever medium I step into.”

    Titled Shooting Star, the album carves a fresh creative path for Tod, a storied singer-songwriter
    and frontman of Lost Dog Street Band. The self-proclaimed “proprietor of misery,” Tod finds
    himself transcending into a life of gratitude, patience, and stability.
    “People evolve and change. You’re growing as a person,” Tod says. “If you want to get healthier,
    you have to start intentionally behaving like a healthy person. You have to look around you and
    adapt to those things — if you don’t change your identity, it’s hard to change yourself.”
    For this latest solo endeavor, Tod tapped some of Nashville’s finest to conjure country gold.
    Shifting from his signature somber tone of struggle and survival, Tod and his coal fire throat
    radiate a feeling of clarity and new beginnings in the face of adversity. The result is this intrinsic,
    musical crossroads — more Hank Williams than Bob Wills, more Marty Stuart than George
    Jones.

    “Most of my career has been laser-focused on poetic, piercing songwriting in mainly a folk
    tradition.” Tod says. “I wanted to prove to myself and the industry that I could write an elite
    country record with ease. Either way, if I didn’t accomplish that goal, I sure as hell came closer
    than anyone on pop country radio.”
    The inspiration for the project struck in the summer of 2022, with Tod penning the opening track
    “I Ain’t The Man.” From there, it became this unrelenting, internal thirst for Tod to begin
    “imagining what all I could do within a genre slightly outside my comfort zone.”
    With a thick thread of honkytonk woven into it, the album leaves fingerprints on seemingly every
    style of country, from outlaw to red dirt, folk to indie, the culmination of which being a happily
    welcomed challenge for Tod — the ethos of his life and career at this juncture howling loudly
    “obstacles are opportunities.”

    Shooting Star is also a full-circle moment for Tod. Coming of age in Music City, he found himself
    squarely in the midst of rough-n-tumble Lower Broadway. Busking on street corners playing
    Woody Guthrie and Jim Ringer tunes for spare change. And getting kicked out of Robert’s
    Western World or Layla’s Honky Tonk “more times than most regulars had been before the age
    of 20.”

    “Growing up on Lower Broad, the influences that I received kind of came later in life,” Tod says.
    “That sound was always on the tip of my tongue, but it wasn’t until about five or six years ago
    when I started getting back into my roots, really listening to country again and enjoying
    honkytonk — this record feels like a homecoming.”

    Tod views Shooting Star as a rebuttal to the current state of affairs, for good or ill, of his native
    Nashville and of the music industry itself. The 10-song LP harkens to the golden era of country
    music. It’s taking “three chords and the truth” and actually holding yourself to those standards of
    vulnerability and authenticity.

    “I want to make music that helps people on a personal basis, to work through their own trauma
    and problems, to better serve their families, themselves, and their communities,” Tod says. “As a
    society, we need to reform back to our spirit. And my intent is to direct people back to their spirit
    — mind, body, and soul.”

    In reflection of the long, arduous road to where he firmly stands today, Tod acknowledges his
    whirlwind, volatile past. But, the troubadour does so with pure intent, pushing headlong into this
    unwritten chapter of possibility and purpose.

    “Right now, I’m very excited for the future, and very thankful,” Tod says. “I’ve worked incredibly
    hard and made changes in my life — I’m becoming the person I’ve longed to become for
  • Jesse Daniel

    Jesse Daniel

    Country

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Benjamin Tod & Lost Dog Street Band: Shooting Star Album Release Tour

Sat Dec 7 2024 8:00 PM

(Doors 7:00 PM)

The Mill & Mine Knoxville TN
Benjamin Tod & Lost Dog Street Band: Shooting Star Album Release Tour

$37.02 Ages 18+

PUBLIC ON SALE: Friday, September 20th at 10am ET

Advance Price: $30 + fees / Day of Show Price: $35+ fees


VIP Experience Package:  $130 + Fees
includes: 
- One (1) GA ticket to the show
- Private 3 song performance from Ben   
- Q & A with Ben
- Group Photo
- Signed Tour Poster
- Signed VIP Laminate
- Early Access to Merch
- Early Entry to the venue (beginning 75 mins before doors open to regular ticket buyers) 

VIP Experience ticket purchasers should plan to arrive 75 minutes prior to doors in order to participate in the VIP experience. Expect to receive an email 48 hours prior to the show with more details. 


In order to prevent secondary market re-sale activity there is a delivery delay on everyone's tickets. You will receive an email from Ticketweb 72 hours prior to the show's start time. You can pull up the tickets on your phone and scan them at the door.

This event is 18+, unless accompanied by a parent or legal guardian. No refunds will be issued for failure to produce proper identification.

This ticket is valid for standing room only, general admission. ADA accomodations are available day of show.

Please correct the information below.

Select ticket quantity.

Select Tickets

Ages 18+
limit 6 per person
General Admission
Advance
$37.02 ($30.00 + $7.02 fees)

Delivery Method

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Terms & Conditions

This event is 18 and over. Any ticket holder unable to present valid identification indicating that they are at least 18 years of age will not be admitted to this event, and will not be eligible for a refund. (PATRONS UNDER 18 PERMITTED WITH PARENT OR LEGAL GUARDIAN)

PLEASE NOTE: There is a delivery delay on all tickets. Tickets will be sent out 48 hours prior to the event. E-mailed tickets can be printed out, or scanned straight from your phone.