Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Nov. 21—When speaking to country and bluegrass musician Ricky Skaggs, there are many things to talk about, but not enough time to ...

After an outdoor concert in New Hampshire in 2014, I waited in line to ask Ricky Skaggs to autograph his CD and to talk with him. A large man with flowing white hair, Ricky sat at a utility table and ...

Bluegrass singer Ricky Skaggs was considered a musical prodigy as a child, sitting in with Earl Scruggs and Bill Monroe and performing the mandolin on country-music variety shows. At 15, Skaggs joined ...

Ricky Skaggs says he's cool with bluegrass popping up in all sorts of music, whether it's rock 'n' roll, new country or even punk rock. "Hey, if we can get a banjo, a fiddle and a mandolin together, ...

Ricky Skaggs started playing mandolin when he was just 5. Sixty-two years later – after his pile of Grammys, country and bluegrass hall of fame inductions and National Medal of Arts - I ask Skaggs how ...

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 ...

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, ...