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 ...

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 ...

Don’t expect the familiar bluegrass tunes from Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder on Thursday, Dec. 5, at the Fox Tucson Theatre. “We’re not going to be doing the Stanley Brothers or Bill Monroe or my ...

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 ...

Fifteen-time Grammy Award-winner Ricky Skaggs and his band, Kentucky Thunder, is joining Country Music Hall of Famers The Oak Ridge Boys for a singular night of bluegrass and country music. The two ...

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 ...

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 nor ...

Ricky Skaggs renovated his Nashville recording studio, Skaggs Place Studio, modernizing the space while preserving its history. Upgrades include a new ceiling, flooring, and HVAC system. A piano ...