The Special Consensus

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 lineup highlighted guitarist Martin Marrone, bassist Dallas Wayne, and fiddler Al Murphy; by enough time of 1993’s Green Rolling Hillsides, it turned out altered to add Cahill, Marrone, bassist Darren Wilcox, and mandolin players Drew Carson and Don Stiernberg. The group turned towards the Pinecastle label in 1996 for Solid Enough to Flex, which included Cahill, mandolin participant Colby Maddox, fiddler Aubrey Haynie, and bassist Diana Phillips; the follow-up, 1998’s Our Small Town, maintained Cahill and Maddox and added guitarist Chris Walz and bassist Andrea Roberts. Pinecastle released the 25th Wedding anniversary collection and associated video in 2000, accompanied by another full-length record, Path 10, in 2002. The Particular Consensus continued documenting for Pinecastle because the 10 years advanced, issuing Everything’s Alright in 2005, The Path of Aching Hearts in 2007, and Indicators in ’09 2009. By the beginning of the 2010s, the group experienced undergone a lot more staff changes, as usually still offering Cahill but with three fresh bandmembers: mandolinist Rick Faris, bassist David Thomas, and guitarist Dustin Benson. The music group famous 35 years of bluegrass carrying out and recording using the release from the properly entitled 35 collection on Compass Information this year 2010. A fresh studio LP, Scrape Gravel Road, made an appearance two years later on in 2012, and got the group a Grammy nomination for Greatest Bluegrass Recording of the entire year. Nation Young man: A Bluegrass Tribute to John Denver decreased in 2014, adopted in 2016 by Long I Trip, the latter which celebrated the band’s 40th wedding anniversary.