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Tag: Ricky Skaggs
Skaggs & Rice vinyl reissue in April
Sugar Hill Records has announced that they will re-release the classic Skaggs & Rice album on vinyl as part of their annual celebration of Record Store Day on April 12. This 1980 recording from Ricky Skaggs and Tony Rice has been one of the top-selling [...]
Bluegrass Nights At The Ryman 2012
The docket for this summer’s Bluegrass Nights at The Ryman was announced this week. This series is an annual celebration of bluegrass sponsored by Springer Mountain Farms. All shows start at 7:30 p.m. (CDT), and tickets are $26.50. Make sure you come to one or [...]
Ricky and Andy at Tablet
Tablet is an online magazine for Jewish readers that covers a wide range of issues, with arts reporting found side-by-side with articles on religion and politics. The online magazine also sponsors a podcast side, Vox Tablet, with audio coverage of these same topics. This week’s [...]
Album of the Week #8 – Boone Creek’s One Way Track
To many young bluegrass converts, the name Boone Creek might not ring a bell. For those who are not familiar with that name, how do the names Jerry Douglas, Terry Baucom, and Ricky Skaggs grab ya? This short-lived group was a progressive bluegrass powerhouse during [...]
BP spills bluegrass along the Gulf Coast
We all recall the localized devastation of communities along the US coast of the Gulf of Mexico following the explosion of the Deep Water Horizon oil rig in April 2010, and the resulting discharge of nearly 5 million barrels of oil into the gulf waters. [...]
A second Skaggs Family Christmas
What better way to begin a Christmas album than with the old Tex Logan tune, Christmas Time’s a Coming? If you ask Ricky Skaggs, you’ll probably find out quickly that there is none, as it’s the first track on a recent release by Skaggs Family Records. [...]
Old Brooklyn from Andy Statman
Andy Statman has been something of an enigma to the bluegrass world for the past 40 years. Clearly a master mandolinist with a demonstrated facility in the bluegrass idiom, he was even as a teenager drawn to incorporating elements of other musical styles into his [...]
Bill Monroe Centennial Celebration from Rounder
Rounder Records will release Bill Monroe Centennial Celebration – A Classic Bluegrass Tribute on August 23, a two-disc commemoration of the Father of Bluegrass during his centennial year. The album will include 28 tracks from prominent Rounder artists like The Grascals, Bluegrass Album Band, Claire [...]
Country Hits Bluegrass Style from Ricky Skaggs
It’s back to the future for Ricky Skaggs. His next release on Skaggs Family Records finds him reprising his many country hits from the 1980s done up bluegrass style with his talented road band, Kentucky Thunder. In fact, that’s the name of the new album: [...]
Ricky Skaggs with the Boston Pops
Bluegrass is an interesting musical genre. It is loved far and wide by people in rural communities, especially in the south, who can readily associate with much of the lyrical content. Yet it is also loved around the world from, Japan to Sweden and back [...]
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