The Infamous Stringdusters are a bluegrass

Bluegrass music

Bluegrass music is a form of American roots music, and a sub-genre of country music. It has mixed roots in Scottish, English, Welsh and Irish traditional music...

 band. The band emerged in 2007 with the acclaimed album Fork in the Road on Sugar Hill Records. The band's current line-up features Andy Hall (Dobro), Andy Falco (guitar), Chris Pandolfi (banjo), Jeremy Garrett (fiddle), and Travis Book (upright bass). Falco is the newest member, filling the role vacated by guitarist Chris Eldridge

Chris Eldridge

Chris Eldridge is an American guitarist and singer best known for being a member of Punch Brothers. He was also a founding member of the bluegrass band The Infamous Stringdusters. His father is noted banjoist Ben Eldridge of the Seldom Scene.-Punch Brothers:...

 (son of Ben Eldridge

Ben Eldridge

Ben Eldridge, is a five-string banjo player and a founding member of the seminal bluegrass group The Seldom Scene. He also works as a mathematician. Eldridge is best known for his scat singing on "Lay Down Sally."-Biography:...

 and later a touring partner with Chris Thile

Chris Thile

Christopher Scott Thile is an American musician, best known as the mandolinist and a singer for the progressive acoustic trio Nickel Creek. His current band is Punch Brothers whose most recent album is Antifogmatic...

). Jesse Cobb (mandolin) announced his departure Oct 5, 2011; Dominick Leslie was announced as the mandolin player for the tour that followed.

The Infamous Stringdusters won three awards at the International Bluegrass Music Association

International Bluegrass Music Association

The International Bluegrass Music Association, or IBMA, is a trade association to promote bluegrass music.Formed in 1985, IBMA established its first headquarters in Owensboro, Kentucky. In 1988 they announced plans to create the International Bluegrass Music Museum as a joint venture with...

 Awards Ceremony in October 2007: Emerging Artist of the Year, Album of the Year for Fork in the Road (in a tie with J.D. Crowe & the New South

J.D. Crowe & The New South

J. D. Crowe & The New South is an album by American banjo player J. D. Crowe and The New South, released in 1975 . It was reissued on CD in 1992....

's album Lefty's Old Guitar), and Song of the Year for the album's title cut.

Their "Magic #9" (from Things That Fly) was nominated for a 2011 Grammy award for "Best Country Instrumental".

Discography

Title	Album details	Peak chart positions
		US Grass	US Country
Fork in the Road	Release date: February 13, 2007 Label: Sugar Hill Records	4	—
Infamous Stringdusters	Release date: June 10, 2008 Label: Sugar Hill Records	1	62
Things That Fly	Release date: April 20, 2010 Label: Sugar Hill Records	2
We'll Do It Live	Release date: October 11, 2011 Label: High Country Recordings	—	—
"—" denotes releases that did not chart

External links

• Infamous Stringdusters collection at the Internet Archive
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  's live music archive