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 you ...
Ricky Skaggs says he's cool with bluegrass popping up in all sorts of music, whether it's rock 'n' roll, new country or even punk rock. "Hey, if we can get a banjo, a fiddle and a mandolin together, ...
After over 50 years in the music world, Ricky Skaggs still enjoys picking on his mandolin. Skaggs, 69, was born in Kentucky and has been playing music ever since his father gifted him a mandolin at ...
Established festivals like Tunbridge’s Jenny Brook Bluegrass Festival don’t need major headliners to keep people coming back. With an essential part of the audience being folks who travel from ...
Ricky Skaggs has been making music for 50 years now. He played with bluegrass great Ralph Stanley when he was still in his teens, went on to have a streak of country hits and then went back to ...