Spotlight: Ricky Skaggs

Ricky Skaggs, at home with God, Bill Monroe, and his own music.

"...Eight-time Grammy winner Ricky Skaggs is hard core about three things: his faith..."

March 16, 2001 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

10 Minutes With Ry Cooder

Journeyman guitarist yes, ethnomusicologist maybe

"...Touré. Tuesday he fills the Paramount with bluegrass superstar Ricky Skaggs, Skaggs’ wife and gospel singer Sharon White, and..."

Sept. 17, 2015 Music Post by Jim Caligiuri

Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder, Waterloo Park, Thursday 15

"...Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky ThunderWaterloo Park, Thursday 15 Nothing like..."

March 16, 2001 Music Review by Jerry Renshaw

A Skaggs Family Christmas: Volume One

Gift guide

"...A Skaggs Family Christmas: Volume One..."

Dec. 23, 2005 Music Feature by Jim Caligiuri

Best in Bluegrass

Southside of the Tracks on the right side of 08

"...Bruce Hornsby, with contributions from Vince Gill, Elvis Costello, Ricky Skaggs, and even Jack Black sending up “Old Joe..."

Dec. 30, 2008 Music Post by Doug Freeman

Don Walser, Grand Ole Opry, Nashville, Tennessee, October 30

"...this particular Opry provided some of the evening's highlights. Ricky Skaggs has returned to his bluegrass roots, and along..."

Nov. 5, 1999 Music Review by Jim Caligiuri

Kentucky Traveler: My Life in Music

Kentucky picker demures

"...Ricky Skaggs may have produced the most humble autobiography in..."

May 30, 2014 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

Dancing About Architecture

Sixth Street Scuffle

"...an end." The Scaggs' the Limits (or is that Skaggs?)..."

July 25, 1997 Music Column by Ken Lieck

ACL Live Review: Bruce Hornsby

Piano great and his Noisemakers put on a spellbinding set

"...defining collaborations with everyone from the Grateful Dead to Ricky Skaggs, his musical curiosity and delight in stylistic exploration..."

Oct. 7, 2019 Music Post by Doug Freeman

Day Trips & Beyond: May Events Roundup

Catfish, outlaws, and armadillos

"...Hall of Fame that also includes Dottie West and Ricky Skaggs. May 25, 2018-Feb. 14, 2021, Country Music Hall..."

May 2, 2018 Travel Post by Gerald E. McLeod

Playback: Guy Clark 1941-2016

End Transmission: Adios Guy Clark, and Transmission Events as we knew it

"...Cash covered him. So did John Denver, Emmylou Harris, Ricky Skaggs, Jimmy Buffett, Brad Paisley, and even the Highwaymen..."

May 20, 2016 Music Column by Kevin Curtin

Summertime Peruse

A respite of rock & roll reading

May 30, 2014 Music Feature by Raoul Hernandez

The Haden Triplets

"...guitar and mandolin, his son Joachim on drums, and Ricky Skaggs contributing mandolin on a few tracks. Nevertheless, the..."

March 14, 2014 Music Review by Jim Caligiuri

We Were From Texas

Texas Triangle: Guy Clark, Susanna Clark, Townes Van Zandt

"...songs have turned hits for Johnny Cash, Vince Gill, Ricky Skaggs, Bobby Bare, John Conlee, Steve Wariner, and Asleep..."

July 19, 2013 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

Festival International de Jazz de Montreal

Indie rock music festivals could learn a thing or three from the Montreal Jazz Fest

"...Luke Bulla (fiddle), Viktor Krauss (acoustic bass), Keith Sewell (Ricky Skaggs' protege and mandolin), and drumming great Russ Kunkel..."

July 12, 2013 Music Review by Raoul Hernandez

Viper Moon

Jazz guitarist Slim Richey recovers

"...into the newgrass genre behind the featured support of Ricky Skaggs, Sam Bush, Joe Carr, and Alan Munde...."

April 20, 2012 Music Feature by Doug Freeman

Sibling Harmony

Tiffani and Britani Ginn may not look like they're from Schulenberg on the cover of their new You Can't Take a Bad Girl Home, but their harmonies tell a different tale

"...this awesome record collection – Cyndi Lauper, Boy George, Ricky Skaggs, Hank Williams...."

Nov. 19, 2010 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

XBRMNT's Top 10 for the Week of Oct. 18

New blogger Nakia gets Chain Drive's Manic Monday DJ XBRMNT's Top 10.

"...by The Cure. 8. "Don't Cheat in Our Hometown" Ricky Skaggs Seriously… Hasn't country music ever heard of open..."

Oct. 19, 2010 Qmmunity Post by Nakia

Deepest Roots

Justin Townes Earle's blues, and more

"...providing a modern bent. Guest appearances by Del McCoury, Ricky Skaggs, Gillian Welch & David Rawlings, and Tim O’Brien..."

Sept. 30, 2010 Music Post by Jim Caligiuri

Sky Blue Sky

Q&A with Kevin Welch

"...been covered by Waylon Jennings, Roger Miller, Trisha Yearwood, Ricky Skaggs, and the Highwaymen...."

April 21, 2010 Music Post by Jim Caligiuri

Results of Austin Music Awards Give a 'Totally Distorted Impression'

March 18, 2010 Postmarks

Bluegrass Up in Her Head

On another Old Settler's weekend, festival perennial Sarah Jarosz is out of braces and into big-time bluegrass

"...she's shared local stages with such heavy hitters as Ricky Skaggs and Béla Fleck. In 2003, she received an..."

April 17, 2009 Music Feature by Jim Caligiuri

No Lonesome Tune

Retiring the dean of Texas songwriters? Fat chance.

"...stars including Jerry Jeff Walker, Johnny Cash, the Highwaymen, Ricky Skaggs, Rodney Crowell, Vince Gill, Lyle Lovett, and Brad..."

Sept. 12, 2008 Music Feature by Jim Caligiuri

Off the Record

The Butthole Surfers reunite, Sarah Jarosz paddles up Nickel Creek, and Shearwater soars to new heights

"...only with Thile but also bluegrass patriarchs Béla Fleck, Ricky Skaggs, and Earl Scruggs, the precocious 17-year-old multi-instrumentalist got..."

May 23, 2008 Music Column by Austin Powell

Flatt & Scruggs

Gift guide

"...bit of kitschy fun. Appearances by a 7-year-old mandolin-slinging Ricky Skaggs on Vol. 3 and an 8-year-old Randy Lynn..."

Dec. 21, 2007 Music Review by Jim Caligiuri

The Stanley Brothers

In Box

"...from 1961, is especially notable. With an introduction by Ricky Skaggs and a biographical essay by noted bluegrass writer..."

May 18, 2007 Music Review by Jim Caligiuri

More Old-Timers: National Division

New bluegrass DVD and CD releases.

"...glimpse into bluegrass history. Local bluegrassers are aware that Ricky Skaggs and Del McCoury front two of the best..."

March 30, 2007 Music Post by Jim Caligiuri

Bruce Hornsby

Record review

"...Metheny, the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, Bonnie Raitt, and Ricky Skaggs. The other two discs, "By Request (Favorites and..."

Aug. 25, 2006 Music Review by Jim Caligiuri

Young, Gifted, Local

"...has already shared stages with the David Grisman Quintet, Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder, Chris Thile, and Austin's Two..."

Feb. 10, 2006 Music Feature

Can't You Hear Me Callin' – Bluegrass: 80 Years of American Music

Gift guide

"...genre. The most illustrative example of this comes from Ricky Skaggs, possibly the only contemporary player of true bluegrass,..."

Dec. 10, 2004 Music Feature by Darcie Stevens

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