Having achieved a combined 55 years in both bluegrass and country music, 15-time Grammy-winner and Country Music Hall of Famer Ricky Skaggs speaks with The Tennessean about his forthcoming ...
Ricky Skaggs speaks with American Songwriter about his hopes that young artists stay true to personal creativity.
Ricky Skaggs began his career as a bluegrass “phenom,” taking up the mandolin at the age of five. Anxious to continue learning before his father could teach him more than a few chords, the ...
Garth Brooks inducts Ricky Skaggs into the Country Music Hall of Fame, but both get upstaged by Bill Monroe's mandolin when the priceless instrument is placed in Skaggs' hands to play Nancy Kruh ...
CHILLICOTHE— "Oh, the people would come from far away they'd dance all night till the break of day." Normally when you hear Ricky Skaggs singing this lyric you think of Uncle Pen but soon when ...
Bluegrass is a genre founded on tradition. That being so, it is no surprise that bluegrass musicians from the present lift and riff off of bluegrass musicians from the past. This is not malicious ...
Skaggs has won multiple Grammys and CMA awards, but Hall of Fame is the very best: "This is forever." Nancy Kruh is a Nashville-based writer-reporter for PEOPLE. She has covered the country music ...