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Portrait Of A Bluegrass Songwriter is due July 31 from Ray Edwards, on Rural Rhythm's new Sage Brush Music imprint. Sage Brush was formed specifically to showcase talented songwriters in bluegrass, and got its unofficial launch with Look To The Light: Songs From The Pen of Rick Lang in 2010. Portrait Of A Bluegrass Songwriter will be the [...]
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, [...]
Tonight's (2/1) edition of Music City Roots is bluegrass, bluegrass, bluegrass. Scheduled to perform this evening from the Loveless Barn in Nashville are Lonesome River Band, Chris Jones & the Nightdrivers, Darin & Brooke Aldridge, Special Consensus and Darrell Scott. Jim Lauderdale will host the program, which is broadcast online at 8:00 p.m. (EST). Talking [...]
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 [...]
Special Consensus is one of the most well-traveled bands in bluegrass. And so, by extension, is their trusty Turtle Top van, Snowball. It has taken them all across the US and Canada since it went into service in December 2002. Greg Cahill and the band are touring in California the rest of this week, and their [...]
Greg Cahill got in touch over Christmas with some news about the next Special Consensus album, due from Compass Records early next year. It will be the first recording with the current edition of the band: Cahill on banjo, David Thomas on bass, Rick Faris on mandolin and Dustin Benson on guitar. Here's Greg's overview [...]
We heard this weekend from Donald Nitchie, editor of the venerable Banjo NewsLetter, with some info about the upcoming June issue. The cover feature is an interview with Tom Boyd from Dry Branch Fire Squad, conducted by Greg Cahill from Special Consensus. Donald shared a brief overview... Fans of the old-time bluegrass group Dry Branch [...]
Here's another update from Greg Cahill on the 2011 Special Consensus European tour. We only had 2 hours sleep when we were shuttled to the airport in Oslo to catch the plane to Copenhagen on Wednesday. We were on time (after the taxi was late), the plane took off and then a bird flew into [...]
Here's an update from world traveler Greg Cahill and Special Consensus. Just a brief note to let everyone know we are having a great tour here in Europe. We played the Buhl Bluegrass Festival on May 14, then several dates in Germany (including a visit with our friends Guntmar and Anja), several dates in Denmark [...]
Special Consensus has announced that Dustin Benson is the new guitarist with the band. He is replacing Ryan Roberts, who had been with Special C since the Fall of 2009. Dustin is a native of South Alabama, and comes from a family of talented bluegrass pickers and singers. He had been working of late on [...]
