The Special Consensus

One of the Midwest's leading bluegrass groups, the Special Consensus strike an easy balance between the classic sound of traditional bluegrass and the more progressive approach that came with innovative artists like the New Grass Revival and Béla Fleck, fashioning a distinctive style of their own. Led by banjo player Greg Cahill, whose work would earn him the Distinguished Achievement Award from the International Bluegrass Music Association, the Special Consensus are also one bluegrass's most enduring combos, starting out in the mid-'70s and still going strong in the 2020s. As...