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 ...

You couldn’t call it a homecoming in the traditional sense, but Ricky Skaggs should feel right at home during his upcoming concert in Springfield. The musician, singer and songwriter, who has had ...

The Ryman Auditorium hosted Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder for the final evening of its Bluegrass Nights summer series on Thursday (July 27). The venue hosted the event for six days, and prior to ...

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 ...

For 13 years Ricky Skaggs has enjoyed a roots renaissance, making albums of breakneck bluegrass and lovingly assembled gospel music, hand-played on acoustic instruments with some of the best pickers ...

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 ...

It must be interesting to be Ricky Skaggs these days. The multi-Grammy-winning mainstream country-turned-bluegrass virtuoso is once again awash in awards and praise, most recently for his latest album ...

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 Christmas ...

Discussing cussing, you won't hear any Friday at the Brown County Music Center coming from the performer on stage. Among other things, Ricky Skaggs has 15 Grammy Award wins, but he's still ...

David W. Johnson is the author of “Lonesome Melodies: The Lives and Music of Stanley Brothers,” published in 2013 by the University Press of Mississippi. After an outdoor concert in New Hampshire in ...