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Groupe Bluegrass US de Nashville (Tennessee)
composé de Andy Hall, Chris Eldridge, Chris Pandolfi, Jeremy Garrett,
Jesse Cobb et Travis Book
Formed in
2005, the Nashville-based acoustic group the Infamous Stringdusters balance a
fluency in old-timey bluegrass and indie jamgrass sensibilities, with an
emphasis on strong instrumental work plus a sound that's both organic and groove
friendly. The band earned a stellar reputation among bluegrass fans right out of
the box, earning three International Bluegrass Music Association awards after
the release of their 2007 debut album, Fork in the Road, and they began
exploring a more ambitious musical approach with 2010's Things That Fly. The
Stringdusters' genre-spanning approach got a workout on 2016's Ladies &
Gentlemen, in which they collaborated with 11 different female guest musicians,
and they earned one of the music business' highest honors for 2017's Laws of
Gravity.
While the Infamous Stringdusters were founded in Nashville in 2005, three of the
founding members -- Andy Hall on Dobro, Chris Eldridge on guitar, and Chris
Pandolfi on banjo -- knew one another from their days attending the Berklee
School of Music in Boston. When Hall relocated to Nashville to join Ronnie
Bowman and the Committee, Eldridge and Pandolfi soon
followed. Hall, Eldridge,
and Pandolfi continued
to make music together, and two members of Bowman's
group began joining in, Jesse
Cobb on mandolin and Jeremy
Garrett on fiddle. With the addition of bassist Travis
Book, the pickers began playing out as the
Infamous Stringdusters, and it wasn't long before they attracted the
attention of noted bluegrass label Sugar Hill Records.
The debut album from the
Stringdusters, Fork
in the Road, was released in early 2007, and at that years' IBMA awards,
they were named Emerging Artists of the Year, while the LP won Album of the Year
and its title track took the honors for Song of the Year. A self-titled
sophomore release followed in 2008, by which time Chris
Eldridge had left the group, with Andy
Falco taking his place on guitar. A third album, Things
That Fly, arrived in 2010, and found the
Stringdusters stretching out creatively and featuring guest vocalists Dierks
Bentley and Sarah
Siskind. A track from the album, "Magic #9," was nominated for a Grammy
Award as Best Country Instrumental Performance.
In 2011, Jesse
Cobb dropped out of the band, and the
Stringdusters continued on as a five-piece; one of his final appearances
with the group was on the concert album We'll
Do It Live, which was released by the group's own High Country label. Two
more studio releases on High Country followed, 2012's Silver
Sky and 2014's Let
It Go. (The former album was also issued in a special edition that included
a bonus disc of live material.) Undercover,
an EP in which the group put their own spin on songs by Johnny
Cash, Tom
Petty, and Pink
Floyd, among others, appeared in 2015.
In 2016, the
Infamous Stringdusters struck a deal with Compass Records, which brought
out Ladies
& Gentlemen that year. It was an ambitious set that featured collaborations
with 11 noted female musicians, including Joan
Osborne, Lee Ann Womack, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Joss Stone, and Claire Lynch. The group quickly returned to the studio and had another album, Laws
of Gravity, ready for release in January 2017. The Stringdusters took home a
Grammy Award for Laws
of Gravity, which was declared Best Bluegrass Album of the year; 2017 also
saw the group release Laws
of Gravity: Live (a collection of concert recordings of material from the
album) and Undercover,
Vol. 2 (another EP of cover tunes). November 2018 brought yet another
concert album from the
Infamous Stringdusters, Live from Telluride, and in 2019 the group issued
the studio LP Rise
Sun.
http://www.thestringdusters.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Infamous_Stringdusters
Talents : Andy Hall : Dobro - Andy Falco : Guitar - Chris Pandolfi : Banjo - Jeremy Garrett : Fiddle - Travis Book : Upright Bass
Style musical : Bluegrass
Years in activity :
| 1910 | 20 | 30 | 40 | 50 | 60 | 70 | 80 | 90 | 2000 | 10 | 20 |
DISCOGRAPHY
EP
| 02/2007 | CD ? (US) |
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Fork In The Road / 100 Ways To Lose / Brunswick / 3 x 5 / Let Me Love You One More Time |
Albums
| 02/2007 | CD SUGAR HILL SUG-CD-4021 (US) |
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FORK IN THE ROAD - No More To Leave You Behind / Fork In The Road / Starry Night / 3x5 / 40 West / Tragic Life / Poor Boy's Delight / No Resolution / My Destination / Letter From Prison / Dream You Back / Moon Man | ||
| 06/2008 | CD SUGAR HILL SUG-CD-4043 (US) |
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THE INFAMOUS STRINGDUSTERS - Won't Be Coming Back / Well, Well / When Silence Is The Only Sound / Bound For Tennessee / Glass Elevator / Three Days In July / The Way I See You Now / Golden Ticket / I Wonder / Get It While You Can / You Can't Handle The Truth / Lovin' You / Black Rock | ||
| 04/2010 | CD SUGAR HILL SUG-CD-4059 (US) |
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THINGS THAT FLAG - You Can't Stop The Changes / In God's Country / All The Same / Magic #9 / Those Who've Gone On / It'll Be Alright / Masquerade / Taking A Chance On The Truth / Toy Rockets / Love One Another / 17 Cents / Not Tonight / The Deputy | ||
| 2011 | CD High Country HCR-001 (US) |
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We'll Do It Live - Fork In The Road / Hitchhiker / Long Lonsome Day / Gettin Down The Road / Get It While You Can / Masquerade / Ain't No Way Of Knowin / Well Well / How Far I'd Fall / All The Same / No More To Leave You Behind / Echoes Of Goodbye / Keep On Truckin | ||
| 04/2013 | 2 CD High Country / SCI Fidelity SCIFI 1155 (US) |
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Silver
Sky :
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| 04/2014 | CD High Country HCR 003 (US) |
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Let It Go - I'll Get Away / Where The Rivers Run Cold / Winds Of Change / Rainbows / Summercamp / Middlefork / By My Side / Colorado / Peace Of Mind / Light & Love / Let It Go | ||
| 10/2014 | CD MunckMix 64 (US) |
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Live At Peach Music Festival 2014 - Introduction / It'll Be Alright / Winds Of Change / Peace Of Mind / Fork In The Road / The Hitchhiker - Get It While You Can / Stage Banter / Where The Rivers Run Cold / Summercamp - Walking On The Moon / Home Of The Red Fox / Stage Banter 2 / Let It Go / No More To Leave You Behind | ||
| 02/2016 | CD Compass 4666 (US) |
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Ladies & Gentlemen - Listen / I Believe / Won't Be Long / Have A Little Faith / See How Far You've Come / Old Whiskey Bottle / Still The One / Ladders In The Sky / Coming Back To You / Run To Heaven / Rock And Roll / Hazosphere | ||
| 01/2017 | CD Compass COM 46782 (US) |
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Laws of Gravity - Freedom / Gravity / A Hard Life Makes A Good Song / Vertigo / Maxwell / Black Elk / This Ol' Building / Soul Searching / 1901: A Canyon Odyssey / Sirens / Back Home / Let Me Know / I Run To You | ||
| 04/2019 | CD TAPE TIME PTI42005 (US) |
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RISE SUN - Rise Sun / Another Night / Planets / Long Time Going / Thunder / Comin Again / Somewhere In Between / Carry Me Away / Last Of The Lucky Ones / If You're Gonna Love Someone / Wake The Dead / Cloud Valley / Truth And Love | ||
| 12/2020 | CD TAPE TIME RTT 005 (us) |
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Dust The Halls - An Acoustic Christmas Holiday! - Joy To The World / Little Drummer Boy / Jingle Bells / We Three Kings / Winter Wonderland / The First Noel / God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen / Christmas Is Coming / Oh Holy Night / Deck The Halls |
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| 07/2021 | LP 12" Americana Vibes AV-025 (US) |
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A Tribute to Bill Monroe - My Sweet Blue Eyed Darling / Dark As The Night / Sitting Alone In The Moonlight / Toy Heart / Old Dangerfield / Travelin' Down This Lonesome Road / The Little Girl And The Dreadful Snake |
© Rocky Productions 24/07/2021
