Benjamin Tod and The Inline Six

Showbox Presents
2026 Tour
BENJAMIN TOD AND THE INLINE SIX
THU, 23 JUL 2026 at 08:00PM PDT
Ages: 21 & Over
Doors Open: 07:00PM
OnSale: Fri, 21 Nov 2025 at 10:00AM PST
Announcement: Fri, 14 Nov 2025 at 10:00AM PST
Sitting at a corner café table, Benjamin Tod’s eyes light up when asked what it’s like to finallyembrace happiness and accept love. With a slight grin, he sips his coffee and leans back, onearm 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. “Foryears, I led myself and the people around me into a lot of unnecessary darkness. And now, I’velearned 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 permeatingsense 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 whohas 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 provewhat 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-songwriterand frontman of Lost Dog Street Band. The self-proclaimed “proprietor of misery,” Tod findshimself 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 andadapt 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 throatradiate 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 GeorgeJones.“Most of my career has been laser-focused on poetic, piercing songwriting in mainly a folktradition.” Tod says. “I wanted to prove to myself and the industry that I could write an elitecountry record with ease. Either way, if I didn’t accomplish that goal, I sure as hell came closerthan 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 everystyle of country, from outlaw to red dirt, folk to indie, the culmination of which being a happilywelcomed challenge for Tod — the ethos of his life and career at this juncture howling loudly“obstacles are opportunities.”