{"id":806,"date":"2010-08-13T13:03:49","date_gmt":"2010-08-13T20:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=806"},"modified":"2010-08-13T13:03:49","modified_gmt":"2010-08-13T20:03:49","slug":"the-infamous-stringdusters-things-that-fly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2010\/08\/the-infamous-stringdusters-things-that-fly\/","title":{"rendered":"THE INFAMOUS STRINGDUSTERS + Things That Fly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Things-That-Fly-M3-Review-May2010.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-807\" title=\"Things-That-Fly-M3-Review-May2010\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Things-That-Fly-M3-Review-May2010.jpg\" alt=\"Things That Fly\" width=\"400\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Things-That-Fly-M3-Review-May2010.jpg 400w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Things-That-Fly-M3-Review-May2010-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a>T<\/strong><strong>HE INFAMOUS STRINGDUSTERS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Things That Fly<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[Sugar Hill]<\/p>\n<p>Since the late \u201960s, acoustic string bands have taken the bluegrass format and pushed it beyond its strict confines. The Infamous Stringdusters fall somewhere between traditional bluegrass and those genre-blasting progressives\u2014<em>Things That Fly<\/em>, the sextet\u2019s third album, wouldn\u2019t sound entirely alien to Bill Monroe, but neither should the jam-band crowd shy away from it. The basic instrumentation\u2014guitar, banjo, mandolin, Dobro, fiddle and bass\u2014is augmented by subtle keyboards, and the mostly original repertoire is broken up most notably by a spirited cover of U2\u2019s \u201cIn God\u2019s Country.\u201d But for the most part the Stringdusters, save for the odd chord change here and the unexpected stretch-out there, prefer familiarity and restraint over experimentation. That doesn\u2019t mean that, whether on a breakneck breakdown (\u201cThose Who\u2019ve Gone On,\u201d Jody Stecher\u2019s \u201c17 Cents\u201d) or a spare ballad (\u201cAll the Same,\u201d \u201cToy Rockets\u201d), there\u2019s ever a moment when the Infamous Stringdusters quit impressing.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013Jeff Tamarkin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE INFAMOUS STRINGDUSTERS Things That Fly [Sugar Hill] Since the late \u201960s, acoustic string bands have taken the bluegrass format and pushed it beyond its strict confines. The Infamous Stringdusters fall somewhere between traditional bluegrass and those genre-blasting progressives\u2014Things That Fly, the sextet\u2019s third album, wouldn\u2019t sound entirely alien to Bill Monroe, but neither should [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[196,70,437,435,436],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=806"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":808,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806\/revisions\/808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}