NASHVILLE (Billboard) - Everything old is new again for Ricky Skaggs, whose latest set, "The High Notes," is a collection of some of his biggest country hits, rerecorded "from a bluegrass perspective, ...
At 15, Skaggs joined Ralph Stanley's Clinch Mountain Boys and performed with both The Country Gentlemen and J.D. Crowe & The New South before forming his own group, Boone Creek. In the early 1980s, ...
Ricky Skaggs is in the Country Music Hall of Fame, the IBMA Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame, the GMA Gospel Music Hall of Fame, and the Musicians Hall of Fame. In other words, the 70-year-old ...
As he engages in internal ciphering to determine the elapsed time since his career switched from the traditionally minded country music he took to the top of the charts during the ’80s back to the ...
A piano in a bluegrass band. A pop hit from the '80s translated on the fiddle and banjo. Bruce Hornsby and Ricky Skaggs. All of these are pairings that aren't intuitive, but that actually work ...
Few artists have built as enduring and multifaceted a career as Ricky Skaggs, and his upcoming return to The Birchmere on Jan. 9 and 10 is a reminder of why audiences continue to flock to his shows ...