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 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 ...

In a live broadcast on SiriusXM’s Bluegrass Junction, Skaggs was announced as one of this year’s IBMA Hall of Fame inductees, along with Paul Williams, Tom T. Hall and the late Dixie Hall. Their ...

Ricky Skaggs and his band Kentucky Thunder closed the 30th year of Bluegrass Nights at the Ryman on Thursday with some sing-along gospel songs and a whole lot of pickin’ and grinnin’. “To be able to ...

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, ...

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, ...

The Ryman Auditorium hosted Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder for the final evening of its Bluegrass Nights summer series on Thursday (July 27). The venue hosted the event for six days, and prior to ...

HENDERSONVILLE, Tenn. -- "Bluegrass is going to be bigger in the next millennium than it ever was," Ricky Skaggs declared in a 1997 interview with the Wall Street Journal. At that time, when Alison ...

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 ...