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Ricky Skaggs, American mandolin and fiddle virtuoso, singer, and music producer who played a leading role in the New Traditionalist movement of the 1980s by adapting bluegrass music’s instrumentation and sensibility to mainstream country music. Learn more about his life, music, and career.
RICKY SKAGGS. –A life full of music. That’s the story of Ricky Skaggs. By age 21, he was already considered a “recognized master” of one of America’s most demanding art forms, but his career took him in other directions, catapulting him to popularity and success in the mainstream of country music.
Rickie Lee Skaggs, known professionally as Ricky Skaggs, is an American neotraditional country and bluegrass singer, musician, producer, and composer. He primarily plays...
Ricky Skaggs was arguably bluegrass music’s hottest young picker and singer in the 1970s, both heir apparent to the reigning legends and a leader of the progressive bluegrass movement. He adapted his sound enough to become a mainstream country star in the ’80s and, since 1990, has become bluegrass’s leading ambassador. Starting Early.
Ricky Skaggs has led a storied life in music that included childhood guest appearances with Bill Monroe, Flatt and Scruggs, and the Stanley Brothers; apprenticeships with Ralph Stanley and the Country Gentlemen; spots in classic configurations of bands headed by J.D. Crowe and Emmylou Harris; status as a mainstream country music star and ...
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Sep 11, 2017 · How Ricky Skaggs Redefined Bluegrass and Brought It to the Mainstream Neotraditional star infused his Eighties hits with exceptional playing and Appalachian harmony By Jon Freeman
Ricky Skaggs, inducted into both the Country Music and Bluegrass Halls of Fame, is from Cordell, Kentucky. Learn more about his music journey.
