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 ...

Ricky Skaggs is known as a country music trailblazer for integrating the niche nature of bluegrass into the mainstream country music scene. On Tuesday (July 18), he celebrated this triumphant feat and ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Ricky Skaggs doesn’t mind saying so. Before he was a first-class picker, he was a first-class brat. The 55-year-old country legend, who appears Friday at Edmonds Center for the Arts ...

Country-bluegrass superstar Ricky Skaggs has found a seemingly unlikely collaborator in Barry Gibb, the lone surviving member of pop supergroup the Bee Gees. The two legendary musicians are huge fans ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X “The love of this music got imparted to me through my dad,” says legendary bluegrass singer and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...