Lost Dog Street Band is American duo Benjamin Tod (from Tennessee) and Ashley Mae (from South Dakota). The band began when a songwriter from tennessee and a fiddle player from south dakota began playing music on the streets to fund their like for hopping freight trains. Their earlier band ( Barefoot Surrender ) split ways in (January 2011) in Oregon and they tramped a hard winter back to Dixie. They met back with their old friend Christin to start on a new album and a new life.