‘Since they made their album debut back in 2010, Police Dog Hogan have been building a reputation as one of the country’s finest live bands and folk-country acts,’ said Folk Radio in 2022. ‘Overground is their finest hour yet.’

After the release of their album Overground – which spent four weeks on the UK Folk albums chart – Police Dog Hogan returned to steady touring, with dates taking them across the UK. The band also spent much of 2023 in the studio, releasing regular new singles to streaming platforms beginning with the stunning ‘Just Breathe’ in April – each track produced (with the band) by George Murphy, who also produced Overground.

In May 2024 the band spent three days at Middle Farm Studios in Devon recording what turned out to be their latest long player, Lightning Strike. Refreshingly, recorded direct to 2-inch tape with very minimal overdubbing, this almost live album, released in October 2024, immediately became the core of the band’s live show. A new Christmas single, ‘Pull Away’ was released earlier in November. The song, the story of a historical successful Christmas Day maritime rescue, was created for the R.N.L.I. and celebrates its 200th anniversary.

Police Dog Hogan combine guitar, fiddle, banjo, trumpet and accordion with bass and drums to create a driving country-folk sound that has earned them a large live following. They’ve played dozens of festivals, many of them repeatedly, including Glastonbury, Cropredy, Cornbury, Kendall Calling, Black Deer and the Sidmouth Folk Festival.

In 2020 the band released a charity Christmas single, ‘My First Christmas Alone’, along with a video. That song helped to raise over £50k for the charity Crisis and reached No. 1 in the iTunes country charts.

In 2018 their song ‘Devon Brigade’ was nominated for best original song at the AMA-UK Awards. Overground will be their first full-length release since 2017’s Wild By The Side of the Road, produced by Oysterband’s Al Scott, which spent several weeks in the Official UK Americana charts. The tour supporting that album culminated in a sold-out show at London’s Shepherd’s Bush Empire.

In 2014 PDH were one of only three UK bands invited to Nashville to perform at the prestigious Americana Music Association Awards, where DJ Bob Harris – in town for the awards – snapped them up for a recording that has become one of the most-watched YouTube videos on his Under the Apple Tree Sessions channel.

‘A good night out guaranteed’ (Mark Radcliffe, BBC Radio 2 Folk Show)

‘They manage to fuse bluegrass, folk, country and more in a way that few others can match.’ (RnR Magazine)