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 ...

Ricky Skaggs knows a thing or two about musical versatility. For decades, Skaggs' career has been marked by his prolific, seamless shifts between genres. As a result, his critically lauded works have ...

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, ...

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 ...

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Ricky Skaggs speaks about bluegrass music with an almost evangelical fervor. He plays it that way, too. “The reason God loves bluegrass so much is its purity, its integrity,” the 52-year-old ...

Ricky Skaggs has been the principal ambassador for bluegrass music of his generation, and in a new interview, the Country Music Hall of Famer says he's not worried about the perceived threat of AI ...

Ricky Skaggs reflected on his genre-crossing career and pivotal shift from bluegrass to country in the 1980s He returned to bluegrass in the mid-1990s after Bill Monroe’s death, reigniting interest in ...

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, ...