The Special Consensus

One of the Midwest's leading bluegrass groups, the Special Consensus have also proved to be one of the most enduring, starting out in the mid-'70s and still performing and recording in the 2020s. Led by banjo player Greg Cahill (whose work would earn him the Distinguished Achievement Award from the International Bluegrass Music Association), Special Consensus struck 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 on LPs like 1998's Our Little Town an...