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1	The Lost Dogs are an Americana/ ChristianRock supergroup starring the frontmen of four important underground Christian alt-rock bands: Terry Scott Taylor (Music/DanielAmos), Gene Eugene (Adam Again), Mike Roe (Music/The77s), and Derri Daugherty (The Choir). They began with a one-off project, ''Scenic Routes'', in 1992, but to their own surprise, found themselves recording more and more records, eventually becoming more active than most of their main bands. They were shaken by Gene Eugene's untimely death in March 2000, but ended up soldiering on well into the 21st century.
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3	[[AC:Discography:]]
4	* ''Scenic Routes'' (1992)
5	* ''Little Red Riding Hood'' (1993)
6	* ''The Green Room Serenade, Part One'' (1996)
7	* ''Gift Horse'' (1999)
8	* ''The Best of the Lost Dogs'' (1999) (selections from their first three albums, plus a live version of "Built for Glory, Made to Last" and a Green Room outtake called "Make Believe")
9	* ''Real Men Cry'' (2001)
10	* ''Nazarene Crying Towel'' (2003)
11	* ''Mutt'' (2004)(covers of songs from the members' other bands)
12	* ''The Lost Cabin and the Mystery Trees'' (2006)
13	* ''Old Angel'' (2010)
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15	[[AC:Members]]
16	* Derri Daugherty: Vocals, Guitar, Bass
17	* Gene Eugene (1992-2000): Vocals, Guitar, Bass, Keyboards
18	* Mike Roe: Vocals, Guitar, Mandolin, Bass
19	* Terry Scott Taylor: Vocals, Guitar
20	* Steve Hindalong (2006-present): Drums, Percussion
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22	[[AC:Affiliated Musicians]]
23	* Tim Chandler: Bass
24	* Burleigh Drummond: Drums, Percussion
25	* Greg Kellogg: Dobro, Pedal Steel, Banjo
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27	!!Provides examples of:
28	* ACappella: "Hard Times Come Again No More," in crystalline four-part harmony. And nearly twenty years later, "The World Is Against Us," in three parts.
29	* AdamAndEvePlot: Implied in "Eleanor, It's Raining Now."
30	* AddictionSong: "Smokescreen," though Mike Roe says it's not about cigarettes.
31	** The narrator of "The Wall of Heaven"'s alcoholism was so severe that it killed his wife.
32	* AfterlifeExpress: "Ghost Train to Nowhere," though it never actually gets there, of course.
33	* AlbumIntroTrack: "The Green Room Serenade," more or less.
34	* AmicableExes: "Waiting for You to Come Around," which is the last Gene Eugene composition the band performed.
35	* AmoralAttorney: Satan disguises himself as one in the second verse of "Hey You Little Devil."
36	* AntiLoveSong: "I Don't Love You."
37	* AreWeThereYet: Evoked in "Dunce Cap."
38	* AsTheGoodBookSays: Invoked in "Imagine That."
39	-->There's a book about us filled with hope and despair\
40	Tells of crooks and crusaders, clowns and kings
41	* BigRedDevil: Subverted in "Why Is the Devil Red?" which rejects pop-cultural presentations of Satan for biblical ones.
42	-->But who's that looking like an angel of light?\
43	Who's that dressed in a gown of white?\
44	Who's that saying everything's all right?\
45	Who's that grinning in the dead of night?
46	* BreakUpSong: Roe's "I Don't Love You" is ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin.
47	* CallBack: "Scenic Routes" incorporates a song title from the four members' other bands: Music/DanielAmos's "Endless Summer," Adam Again's "Eyes Wide Open," The Choir's "Wide-Eyed Wonder," and Music/The77s' "Nowhere Else."
48	* CallingTheOldManOut: The Vietnam veteran narrator of "Red, White and Blue"
49	-->My daddy said a man has got to fight to be free\
50	Tucked his slogans into bed there with my brothers and me\
51	Well, he'd be prouder now if I had never come home
52	* CarSong: "Pearl Moon," in which some Okies' car breaks down in the desert.
53	* CelebrityElegy: "The Great Divide" is about Gene Eugene's death.
54	* CelebritySong: "Jesus Loves You, Music/BrianWilson."
55	* CloudCuckooLander: All of them, to one degree or another, but especially Mike Roe, and ''especially'' on his cover of "On the Good Ship Lollypop."
56	-->'''Gene Eugene''': Sounds like a pervert!\
57	'''Terry Taylor''': You sound like a pervert, Mike.\
58	'''Mike Roe''' ''after a beat'': Takes one to know one.
59	* ConceptAlbum: ''Old Angel'' features fifteen songs about Route 66.
60	* CoverAlbum: ''Mutt'' is an odd example, in that most of its songs are covers of the band's members' ''other'' bands' albums, sung by different singers.
61	* CoverSong: "You Gotta Move" (Mississippi Fred McDowell); "I Am a Pilgrim" (traditional); "Hard Times Come Again No More" (Stephen Foster); "Precious Memories" (traditional); "Lil' Red Riding Hood" (Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs); "I'm a Loser" (Music/TheBeatles); "On the Good Ship Lollipop" (Creator/ShirleyTemple); "If It Be Your Will" (Music/LeonardCohen); "Farther Along" (traditional); "Dust on the Bible" (Music/KittyWells).
62	* CrazyConsumption: The "Twinkie defense" at the beginning of "Bad Indigestion."
63	* DeadAllAlong: "In the Distance."
64	* DeadpanSnarker: All four of them, at least in concert.
65	* DeadPersonConversation: The narrator of "The Wall of Heaven" has one with his late wife every night.
66	* DoesntLikeGuns: Terry Taylor, if "Bullet Train" is to be believed.
67	* DownerEnding: "The Last Testament of Angus Shane" presumably ends with the (innocent) narrator's execution, though it is not narrated in-song.
68	* FamilyBusiness: "Rocky Mountain Mines," much to the narrator's sorrow.
69	-->I cried, "Oh, Daddy, oh, Dad, don't go"\
70	But he won't be coming home, no\
71	And Mother, dear Mom, don't you know\
72	I'm feeling so cold and alone?\
73	'Cause I'm the son next in line\
74	For the black lung dyin'\
75	And just a few come back from the Rocky Mountain mines
76	* FeelingTheirAge: "Old and Lonesome," naturally enough--a parody of Jimmy Reed's "Cold and Lonesome."
77	* FoodSongsAreFunny: "Bad Indigestion."
78	* FourTemperamentEnsemble: Mike Roe (choleric), Gene Eugene (melancholic), Derri Daugherty (phlegmatic), and Terry Taylor (sanguine).
79	* FrameUp: "The Last Testament of Angus Shane."
80	* TheGamblingAddict: "Free Drinks and a Dream," to horrible effect. He sells his car, abandons his family, and is stuck in Vegas, presumably forever.
81	* GenreRoulette: Their first three albums are grab bags of styles and sounds; this changes substantially with ''Gift Horse.''
82	* GhostTrain: One that goes nowhere, right at the beginning of ''Gift Horse''.
83	* GreatestHitsAlbum: The rather unnecessary ''The Best of the Lost Dogs'', given that all three of the albums it draws from were readily available when it came out. At least it brought us "Make Believe."
84	* GriefSong: "Rebecca Go Home," sung by Gene Eugene just months before he died.
85	* HeavyMeta: "Three-Legged Dog," a parable about the band's choosing to continue after Gene's death.
86	* IndecipherableLyrics: "America's Main Street," at least toward the end, when Taylor starts listing monuments.
87	* InnocenceLost: "Amber Waves Goodbye" is about ''America as a whole'' losing its innocence.
88	* InspirationallyDisabled: Averted ''hard'' in "Red, White, and Blue," whose ShellShockedVeteran narrator points to his "lame and legless comrades" when people tell him to go away.
89	** But played straight in "Built for Glory - Made to Last," where the disabled homeless man teaches our narrator a valuable lesson about mortality.
90	* InTheStyleOf: "Close but No Cigar" gives Roe a chance to do his incredible Music/ElvisPresley impersonation. Ditto "Make Believe" and Music/RoyOrbison.
91	* ItsAlwaysMardiGrasInNewOrleans: The narrator of "Mexico" "heard they throw some party there / With people in their underwear."
92	* LastNoteHilarity: "Bad Indigestion" ends with someone flushing a toilet and the guys complaining about the odor.
93	* LeadBassist: Roe, Eugene, and Daugherty often play the bass on the studio recordings, when Tim Chandler isn't doing it. Live, Daugherty usually plays it.
94	* LeavingTheNestSong: "I'm Setting You Free (But I'm Not Letting You Go)." And "Loved and Forgiven," kind of.
95	* LighterAndSofter: ''Nazarene Crying Towel'' is a subdued and acoustic album. ''Real Men Cry,'' two years earlier, was hardly raucous, but it was much less light and soft than ''Nazarene''.
96	* ListSong: "Breathe Deep (The Breath of God)" is a list of groups of people who are instructed to turn to God. "Pray Where You Are" is a list of places to pray.
97	* MisogynySong: Roe's verse in "Free at Last":
98	-->I met a woman\
99	Dressed in black\
100	All she did was just yakety-yak\
101	I talked back\
102	And got the sack\
103	Thank God I got out before I kacked
104	* MorningRoutine: "Up in the Morning," appropriately enough.
105	-->I'll be out the door, but not before\
106	I've kissed the wife and kids
107	* MurderBallad: "The Mark of Cain" and "Wicked Guns."
108	* NewSoundAlbum: ''Gift Horse'' saw the band move away from its kitchen-sink approach and offer eleven country songs, ten of them written by Taylor.
109	** To some extent, the Lost Dogs themselves are a new sound album for the principal members, none of whose bands were making Americana music at the time.
110	* NonAppearingTitle: "The New Physics," "Bush League", "Smokescreen," and "The Last Testament of Angus Shane." And "Dunce Cap," unless you count the StudioChatter before the song begins.
111	* OneManSong: "The Last Testament of Angus Shane," "Jimmy."
112	* OneWomanSong: "Eleanor, It's Raining Now."
113	* OppositesAttract: The only thing the narrator of "Ditto" and his loved one have in common is that they want to be with each other.
114	* PerpetualPoverty: "No Ship Coming In," though they believe they'll be just fine.
115	* ProtestSong: Several on ''Scenic Routes'': Taylor's "Bullet Train" is a borderline-{{Anvilicious}} call for gun control; "The Fortunate Sons" is a war protest song; and "Bush League" is an explanation of why Gene Eugene won't be voting for George H.W. Bush. "Amber Waves Goodbye," a song about America's lost innocence, probably qualifies too, in a more elegiac key.
116	** "Red, White and Blue," from ''Little Red Riding Hood'', uses the character of a burned-out Vietnam vet to protest American foreign policy.
117	--->I'm a living reminder that pride comes before a fall.
118	* RecordProducer: All four principals have produced albums for other artists.
119	* RevengeBallad: "If You Loved Here, You'd Be Home by Now." Having lost his spouse to infidelity, the narrator erects an enormous billboard with the title on it over his house, knowing that she gets stuck in a traffic jam in that location every day.
120	* RichesToRags: "Diamonds to Coal," though the narrator ''requests'' it as a way of confronting his pride.
121	* SelfBackingVocalist: Given that the band is composed of 3-4 lead singers, this is rare, though it does show up from time to time. Most notably, Mike Roe seems to be doing many of the backing vocals in "Jesus Loves You, Brian Wilson," for which he also sings lead.
122	* SerenadeYourLover: "The Green Room Serenade" is a parody of this trope.
123	* ShellShockedVeteran: "Red, White, and Blue."
124	** The narrator of "The Fortunate Sons" will probably qualify if he makes it home alive.
125	* ShoutOut: "The Fortunate Sons," to Music/CreedenceClearwaterRevival.
126	** Charo, Jerry Vale, and Creator/RobertDeNiro in "Why Is the Devil Red?"
127	** "Jesus Loves You, Brian Wilson."
128	** Roe quotes Music/TheTurtles in "I Don't Love You."
129	** "Carry Me" references the cult classic Film/OneMillionYearsBC.
130	* SignatureSong: "Breathe Deep (The Breath of God)." So much so that they rerecorded it for their third album.
131	* SingerNamedrop: From the second line of "Scenic Routes": "Lost dogs bark the Nicene Creed and dream of bones to eat."
132	* SingerSongwriter: Four of them, though they all sing lead on one another's songs, too.
133	* SmokingIsNotCool: "Smokescreen," although Mike Roe insists that it's not about smoking.
134	* SocialMediaIsBad: "The Net," although it was written way back in the chatroom era of 1998.
135	* SongParody: Roe's "Old and Lonesome" parodies Jimmy Reed's "Cold and Lonesome."
136	* SpokenWordInMusic: The bridges of "Rocky Mountain Mines" and "Free Drinks and a Dream."
137	* {{Supergroup}}: The most notable one in Christian rock.
138	* StealthPun: In "Jesus Loves You, Brian Wilson," Mike sings that he "paid the price and leafed through every book that I could find about" the title character. The liner notes spell it "Preiss," the author of a noteworthy biography of Music/BrianWilson.
139	** Combined with a stealth TakeThat in "Dead-End Diner." The song begins "Obama's on the radio" and ends "Keep the change, honey"--ostensibly spoken by a diner patron but perhaps referring to the popular anti-Obama tea party slogan. (The band's politics are difficult to pin down, to be sure.)
140	* StudioChatter: All over ''Little Red Riding Hood'', and even more of it on the 2020 deluxe reissue. They make a joke about it on their cover of "The Chipmunk Song."
141	* TakeThat: "Bush League," to George H.W. Bush.
142	--->The next time you start a storm
143	--->You better get you a mess kit, canteen, and uniform
144	--->'Cause we feel like living, so you've gotta go.
145	* TitleTrack: "Scenic Routes," "The Green Room Serenade," "Real Men Cry," and "Old Angel."
146	* TwelveBarBlues: "You Satisfy" and "Free at Last."
147	* UnfinishedBusiness: The wife of the narrator of "The Wall of Heaven" won't leave him alone until he converts to Christianity.
148	* UnpluggedVersion: An acoustic mix of "No Ship Coming In" for a 1993 compilation.
149	* TheVietnamVet: "Red, White, and Blue."
150	* VitriolicBestBuds: Mike and Gene, if the 'Little Red Riding Hood' StudioChatter is to be believed.
151	* VocalTagTeam: A hallmark of the band, especially evident when there were four of them. "No Ship Coming In" and "Ghost Train to Nowhere" are good examples.
152	* WordSaladLyrics: Gene's verse in "Free at Last":
153	-->See, see him riding\
154	On the Devil E. Lee\
155	He's taking photos a-plenty\
156	But none of me\
157	Elephant sleeping\
158	At the foot of his bed\

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