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Compass Records announced earlier today that the next album from Special Consensus would be a star-studded tribute to popular 1970s singer/songwriter John Denver. Country Boy: A Bluegrass Tribute to John Denver will feature the current Speial C, along with guest appearances from Dale Ann Bradley, Jason Carter, Mike Cleveland, John Cowan, Rob Ickes, Jim Lauderdale, Claire Lynch, Peter Rowan, Buddy Spicher and Rhonda Vincent. It will [...]
Special Consensus has announced a new member: Dan Eubanks has joined the band playing bass. Greg Cahill, Special C's founder, banjo player and fearless leader shared a few words about their latest hire. "Dan Eubanks is a great musician and a mighty nice person. He has been playing with us for about two months now [...]
“Pick Enterprise. We’ll pick you up.” One band found out that the car rental agency was true to its advertising when it found itself in a bind en route to the inaugural Mountain Song at Sea cruise on February 1. Henhouse Prowlers, one of six bands chosen to participate in the “Battle for the Boat” [...]
Here's another report from Greg Cahill on Special C's ongoing tour of Ireland and the UK. We are having a wonderful time over here - as always. Last Thursday we played in a historic town called Limavady and then drove through the mountains to the town of Naul, in the south of Ireland near Dublin. [...]
Special C is in the middle of their British tour, and we just got a note from Greg Cahill - and a cool photo of the band posing at a prominent English landmark. "We left the USA last Wednesday and arrived in Dublin on Thursday morning. We then drove to Belfast, played at the Errigle [...]
Greg Cahill, President of the Foundation for Bluegrass Music, asked us to remind everyone that the 2012 deadline for special projects grant applications is looming. $8000 has been set aside to fund grants in the names of Earl Scruggs and Warren Hellman, a pair of legends we have lost in recent months. Applications must be received by August 15 [...]
“No part of nothin’,” Bill Monroe’s famous phrase describing music unworthy of praise just so happens to be the seemingly unusual choice for the title of the new release this month from Alan Tompkins, the president and founder of the Bluegrass Heritage Foundation. No Part of Nothin’ has been a long time coming. Raised in [...]
First generation bluegrass pioneers regularly performed in schools, during an era when schoolhouses were the center of activity in communities. Such performances, however, were generally held in the evenings for audiences comprised of the general public. As educational programs and funding grew, and the one room schoolhouses were replaced by modern facilities and methods, there [...]
Another highly-anticipated CD scheduled for release this month is Scratch Gravel Road, the 16th album from Special Consensus over the course of 37 years in the biz. It is set to hit March 27 on Compass. Founding member and owner/operator Greg Cahill tells us that he is eager to get the new CD in hand, [...]
We heard from Greg Cahill last night, with news that Special Consensus' trusty travel van, Snowball, had reached a major milestone. You may recall that the band was offering an autographed copy of their upcoming album to whomever guessed Snowball's location when the odometer rolled over to 500,000 miles. Here's Greg... "We turned the big half [...]
