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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In 1960 in rural Kentucky, a traveling welder purchased a $5 mandolin from a pawn shop for his five-year-old son, a bright-eyed boy who listened to WSM every Saturday night and dreamed of playing 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 ...

Ricky Skaggs and his band Kentucky Thunder closed the 30th year of Bluegrass Nights at the Ryman on Thursday with some sing-along gospel songs and a whole lot of pickin’ and grinnin’. “To be able to ...

Country music icon Ricky Skaggs has a lot to celebrate, but one milestone has truly been decades in the making. Known as the “hottest young picker and singer” of bluegrass bands in the 1970s, Skaggs, ...