Over time, Lost Dog Street Band has developed a reputation for being uncompromising, sometimes antagonistic, but garnered a reputation for being an ethics first band. Truth and substance first, and the music matters as long as the story is true. A talented group of musicians that have, as they’ve progressed have sharpened both in their resolve, approach, and quality of art. Not a band to ever rest on good enough or accept mediocrity. This ethos has endeared them to a generation of music lovers begging for raw and real over polished and manufactured. There’s an honesty in the art that the band can only create through exposure to scars. While sometimes this approach can be sharp, cutting, and hard on artists, it’s been rewarding as a listener and appreciated as someone who strives to maintain ethics in my own art.

Phillip Ring

I believe that every piece of art is made for an audience. Sometimes the creator is painfully aware of the audience, sometimes the creator is oblivious to the audience. Truly introspective artists that dig beyond the surface through the comfortable, to the parts of ourselves that we only visit when we’re alone, are rare. These artists have a unique, stressful, and tenuous relationship with their audiences, because while they intend to relay an experience, a perspective, or an idea, they give pieces of themselves that are difficult to recoup. In the case of Glory, by the venerable Lost Dog Street Band, it reads as a warning at times to their audience, with the next breath a roadmap, and the next a story of redemption, change, growth.

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