Podcast appearances and mentions of greg cahill

In this episode of The Hometown Bluegrass Show Josh Williams and Tim Batts sit down with Greg Cahill, founding member of The Special Consensus bluegrass band. It is a great interview with tons of laughs and fun stories looking back when Josh started playing with them as his very first music job straight out of High School. Josh also teaches the details of how to play the song Me and My Guitar, the Tony Rice version. Plus lots more!

This story was written by Greg Cahill for the March-April 2024 issue of Strings magazine and is read by editor Megan Westberg.“I love that film and soundtrack music aren't limited by preconceptions or genres,” says cellist, composer, software developer, and entrepreneur Tina Guo, 38, whose extensive film work includes the 2022 Academy Award–winning soundtrack to Dune. “Anything goes, and experimentation or seeking to always do something new is so wonderful and so exhilarating—depending on the project, anything from classical to electronic to heavy metal to country to new age to tribal to jazz. Literally anything. People used to tell me that I should ‘stick with one genre,' but this is the perfect playground for me to release all of my creative energy.”

This week we feature banjo player Greg Cahill who has had a very long and distinguished career with the Chicago-based bluegrass band The Special Consensus.  We talk with Greg about his nearly 50 years with that band and about the band's newest album.

Robbie Fulks joins us on this week's Fretboard Journal Podcast to talk about his new album, 'Bluegrass Vacation.' Fulks' first full-length bluegrass album features an all-star lineup of guests including Sam Bush, Sierra Hull, Ronnie McCoury, Tim O'Brien, Alison Brown, John Cowan, and Jerry Douglas.   We talk about the alt-country pioneer's deep bluegrass roots, stretching back to his time playing in Greg Cahill's Special Consensus, his approach to songwriting (and writing in general), and we hear about a book Fulks is currently working on. Plus a lot more.    http://www.robbiefulks.com/   The Fretboard Summit, our three-day celebration of all-things-guitar is taking place August 24-26, 2023 at Fulks old stomping grounds...Chicago's Old Town School of Folk Music. Featured performers include Wayne Henderson, Jeff Parker, Jorma Kaukonen and much more.   Register here: https://fretboardsummit.org/   Our podcast is sponsored by Retrofret Vintage Guitars; Deering Banjos; Peghead Nation (use the promo code FRETBOARD and get your first month free or $20 off any annual subscription); Izotope (use the coupon code FRET10 to save 10% off their plug-ins); and Stringjoy Strings (use the discount code FRETBOARD and save 10% off your first order).   Subscribe to our keepsake print magazine here.

Welcome BACK to the GuitarCast with Andy Keathley! Andy chats with Greg about their musical history being a musician for hire. Then they get out the instruments for a rendition of "Guitars, Cadillacs" Presented by Wood & Steel Live Music Co. California's Finest Country & Bluegrass for Weddings & Events. Book your band now at woodandsteel.live

In this episode, Brad talks with Greg Cahill of the band Special Consensus. Greg plays the banjo and has been at the helm of Special C for 46 years as of 2021. Chicago born and bred, Greg Cahill has been playing bluegrass banjo since the early 1970s. He co-founded The Special Consensus in Chicago in 1975 and has continued to tour nationally and internationally with the band ever since. In 1984, he created the Traditional American Music (TAM) Program to introduce students of all ages to bluegrass music. He has appeared on all 20 of The Special Consensus recordings, on numerous recordings by other artists and on many national television and radio commercial jingles. Greg has also released three recordings: Lone Star (1980, with guests Jethro Burns and Byron Berline); Blue Skies (1992, with Chicago mandolinist Don Stiernberg); and Night Skies (1998, with Don Stiernberg and guests Sam Bush, Glen Duncan and Tom Boyd). He has also recorded and toured European countries with the ChowDogs (Greg and Slavek Hanzlik, Dallas Wayne and Ollie O’Shea). Greg has released four banjo instructional DVDs and three banjo tablature books and he teaches banjo at festival workshops and music camps nationally and internationally. He is a banjo instructor at the Old Town School of Folk Music in Chicago and has been an adjunct faculty member of the music department (teaching banjo) at Columbia College in Chicago. He served on the Nashville-based International Bluegrass Music Association (IBMA) Board of Directors from 1998-2010 (Board Chair/President 2006-2010), became a Kentucky Colonel in 2010 and was awarded the prestigious IBMA Distinguished Achievement Award in 2011. Greg was also appointed to the Board of Directors of the Nashville-based Foundation for Bluegrass Music in 2007, elected President of the organization in 2011 and rotated off that board in 2012. The 2012 Compass Records band recording Scratch Gravel Road was GRAMMY-nominated for Best Bluegrass Album; the 2014 Compass Records band release Country Boy: A Bluegrass Tribute To John Denver received two IBMA awards; the 2016 Compass Records band recording Long I Ride received an IBMA award and the 2018 Compass Records recording Rivers And Roads received two IBMA awards (one for Album of the Year) and a GRAMMY nomination for Best Bluegrass Album. Greg served on the Recording Academy Chicago Chapter Board of Directors as a Governor 2018-2020 and he was inducted into the Society for the Preservation of Bluegrass Music in America (SPBGMA) Hall of Greats in Nashville, TN in 2020. Greg appears on the 2020 Special C Compass Records release Chicago Barn Dance, the 20th band recording that received the 2020 IBMA Song of the Year Award. www.acousticmusictalk.net --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/brad-apple/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/brad-apple/support

www.patreon.com/banjopodcast   A Freshly Picked episode with longtime friend of the podcast Greg Cahill! He joins host Keith Billik to discuss the recent Special Consensus album "Chicago Barn Dance," which just won IBMA's Song of the Year award for its title track.   Band website: www.specialc.com Sponsored by Elderly Instruments, Peghead Nation, and the Soundbrite Banjo Workshop Enroll for Soundbrite: http://www.americanamusicacademy.com/banjo-workshop   SAVE 20% on Picky Fingers merch at the www.banjopodcast.com shop - Enter coupon code "BYE2020" at checkout. Contact the show at pickyfingersbanjopodcast@gmail.com  

Please join me today with a guest speaker, Mr.Greg Cahill, who will share his experience and wisdom on BEing present and in the moment.

Part 1 of Robbie Fulks at public radio program Live From The Divide in beautiful Bozeman, MT. Robbie Fulks was born in York, Pennsylvania, and grew up in a half-dozen small towns in southeast Pennsylvania, the North Carolina Piedmont, and the Blue Ridge area of Virginia. He learned guitar from his dad, banjo from Earl Scruggs and John Hartford records, and fiddle (long since laid down in disgrace) on his own. He attended Columbia College in New York City in 1980 and dropped out in 1982 to focus on the Greenwich Village songwriter scene and other ill-advised pursuits. In the mid-1980s he moved to Chicago and joined Greg Cahill’s Special Consensus Bluegrass Band, with whom he made one record (Hole in My Heart, Turquoise, 1989) and toured constantly. Since then he has gone on to create a multifarious career in music. He was a staff instructor in guitar and ensemble at Old Town School of Folk Music from 1984 to 1996.

Part 1 of Robbie Fulks at public radio program Live From The Divide in beautiful Bozeman, MT. Robbie Fulks was born in York, Pennsylvania, and grew up in a half-dozen small towns in southeast Pennsylvania, the North Carolina Piedmont, and the Blue Ridge area of Virginia. He learned guitar from his dad, banjo from Earl Scruggs and John Hartford records, and fiddle (long since laid down in disgrace) on his own. He attended Columbia College in New York City in 1980 and dropped out in 1982 to focus on the Greenwich Village songwriter scene and other ill-advised pursuits. In the mid-1980s he moved to Chicago and joined Greg Cahill’s Special Consensus Bluegrass Band, with whom he made one record (Hole in My Heart, Turquoise, 1989) and toured constantly. Since then he has gone on to create a multifarious career in music. He was a staff instructor in guitar and ensemble at Old Town School of Folk Music from 1984 to 1996.

Katy Daley interviews Chicago's Greg Cahill, founder of "Special Consensus". In 2018 the band won two IBMA awards and garnered a "Best Bluegrass Album" Grammy nomination.

Keith talks to Greg Cahill, one of the most prolific ambassadors of the banjo and bluegrass music. Greg is best known as the banjo player and bandleader of Special Consensus.   This episode contains excerpts from the following songs: "Sherwood Square" performed by Greg Cahill. Available on LP and Youtube. "Way Down the River Road" performed by Special Consensus, available on iTunes. "Blue Skies" performed by Greg Cahill & Don Stiernberg, available on iTunes.   Greg Cahill on the web: specialc.com   Support the show for as little as $1 per month! www.patreon.com/banjopodcast   Contact the Podcast: pickyfingersbanjopodcast@gmail.com      

Our 122nd episode, which aired on November 20, 2015, and featured Celtic music played on the five-string banjo. Tony Furtado - Jenny's Wedding/Rakish Paddy, Full Circle Tony Furtado - Road to Donegal/Bean An Ti Ar Lar, Rounder Banjo Extravaganza "Live" Interview with J.P. Cormier J.P. Cormier - Banjomusk, Take 5: A Banjo Collection Bill Keith - Ricketts Hornpipe, Something Auld Something Newgrass Something Borrowed Something Bluegrass CLOSET CLASSIC: Dave Hum - Mason's Apron, Celtic and Bluegrass 5 String Banjo Dave Hum - Maid Behind the Bar, Celtic and Bluegrass 5 String Banjo Greg Cahill & Don Stiernberg - Durang's Hornpipe, Night Skies Special Consensus - Danny's Dance, 35 Interview with Greg Cahill of Special Consensus Special Consensus - Old Town Ceili, Everything's Alright Mike Seeger & Pete Kuykendall - Irish Washerwoman, American Banjo: Tunes and Songs in Scruggs Style Ken Perlman - Humours of the Castle Comer/The Blarney Pilgrim, Clawhammer Banjo & Fingerstyle Guitar Ken Perlman - Johnny Cope, Clawhammer Banjo & Fingerstyle Guitar Alison Brown - The Wonderful Sea Voyage of Holy St. Brendan, Quartet

Greg Cahill joins Justin via Skype this episode to discuss starting his band, Special Consensus. He talks about the music scene in Chicago through the years, his time on the IBMA board, starting an educational program and much more.This episode is brought to you by Lowe Vintage Instrument Company. Visit them online at lowevintage.com.

SPECIAL CONSENSUS is the Grammy nominated acoustic bluegrass band that was founded in 1975 by banjoist Greg Cahill as a showcase for his urban traditionalist take on bluegrass which encompasses elements of Chicago blues, swing, newgrass, and country music. The band's latest is 'Country Boy' a bluegrass tribute to John Denver. There is a natural affinity between bluegrass and John Denver�s repertoire but this is the first purely bluegrass tribute to the iconic singer/songwriter who died in 1997. The album showcases Special Consensus at the musical center of each track with a guest cast of Grammy-winning and International Bluegrass Music Association-winning vocalists and�instrumentalists. CANE MILL ROAD is a North Carolina youth bluegrass band formed from kids who met and bonded while performing at MerleFest. These kids have won countless blue ribbons and individually have performed on stage alongside the likes of J.D. Crowe, Pete Wernick, and Scythian. JONATHAN WILSON-RADER is a budding bluegrass star from Jessamine County. This eight year old has traveled the commonwealth, played with several well-known bluegrass musicians and just completed his first album.

Greg Cahill is originally from Boston and graduated from NYU in 2004. His thesis film there was Wolves of Chechnya, a short film about a Russian soldier’s harrowing experiences in the Chechen War. He then moved to LA, where he produces and directs special features for the NBC TV series Medium. Greg Cahill has recently written, directed, and produced The Golden Voice, a short film about the Cambodian rock singer Ros Sereysothea, one of Cambodia’s biggest stars of the 60’s and early 70’s before the advent of the Khmer Rouge. It is a tragic yet inspiring film featuring some undiscovered gems of rock and roll music.