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Shaped by banjoist Greg Cahill back 1975, the Special Consensus possess endured myriad personnel shifts to endure for three-and-a-half decades; their music hits a balance between your traditional and intensifying institutions of bluegrass. When Cahill as well as the Particular Consensus began documenting for Turquoise in 1990 (Hey, Y’all), their …

Hailing from North Ohio, Ernie Thacker grew up on the requirements of bluegrass music. Steeped in the task of Costs Monroe, Ralph Stanley, and Jimmy Martin, Thacker had taken traditional violin lessons as a kid but quickly dropped beneath the tutelage of the uncle who performed within a bluegrass music …