Special Consensus mini-documentary video
While Special Consensus was recording their 50th anniversary album, Been All Around This World, for Compass Records earlier this year, they invited Emmy-winning video director Joseph Spence to join them and capture footage for posterity. He interviewed the current band members, and six alums, about the group’s celebrated history, and all the roads they have […]
Dan Eubanks departs Special Consensus
Dan Eubanks (left) Mico Humby (right) When you keep a band together for 50 years, as Greg Cahill has done with Special Consensus, personnel changes are part of the woodwork. But there is always a bid of sadness when you see a beloved bandmate depart after more than a decade on the job. Such is […]
Been All Around This World – Special Consensus
When a group marks its half century of activity, it has every right to take a victory lap. Credit Special Consensus for marking their first 50 years with an album that looks back on the era from which they were spawned. Two-time Grammy-nominees and multiple IBMA-Award winners, the Chicago-based band — which currently consists of […]
Been All Around This World video from Special Consensus
Special Consensus has reached a milestone few collaborations of any sort attain in the music business. From humble beginnings, under the leadership of banjo player Greg Cahill, the band is celebrating 50 years of bluegrass under that name in 2025. With such a memorable event in the air, Special C and Compass Records have produced […]
Brian McCarty to Special Consensus
Special Consensus has announced a mandolin swap, with Missouri singer and player Brian McCarty coming aboard, taking the spot just vacated by Michael Prewitt. Founder and banjo man Greg Cahill shared some details for us. “The fall season winds of change continue blowing as we bid adieu to our wonderful mandolin player Michael Prewitt. Michael […]
Special Consensus to Hope River Entertainment
Special Consensus has announced a change in representation, as their long time agent, Maria Nadauld with Above the Bay Booking, has decided to retire. Penni McDaniel and Hope River Entertainment will take over representing the band going forward. Greg Cahill, founder, banjoist, and fearless leader of Special C, shared a few words about the switch. […]
Great Blue North – Special Consensus
Since Greg Cahill co-founded Special Consensus with Marc Edelstein in 1975, the band has covered a lot of ground in their forty eight years of music making. With twenty one albums to their credit, several of Special C’s more recent releases have been centered around different themes. This is certainly the case with their latest […]
Alberta Bound video from Special C and special guests
Compass Records has created a new music video for Special Consensus just ahead of this Friday’s release of their new album, Great Blue North. It’s for the band’s current single, Alberta Bound, and carries along the theme of the Great Blue North with a musical look at all that Canada’s bluegrass music scene has to […]
Alberta Bound – new single from Special Consensus
Compass Records has announced a new album coming up with Special Consensus, their seventh with the label since 2011. It has been a good ride for the band with Compass, seeing not only critical praise for their recent recordings, but awards and Grammy nominations coming along as icing on the cake. This next project will […]
Track Premiere: Blackbird from Special Consensus
Special Consensus is back with their first new music in two years, and a fresh band sound courtesy of two new regular members. The band is headed by banjo picker Greg Cahill, as Special C has been for its entire 47 year run, and welcomes Greg Blake on guitar and Michael Prewitt on mandolin since [...] 