Ricky Skaggs

The nominees for the 51st Grammy Awards have been announced, and the bluegrass category is filled with familiar names. Here are the nominees for Best Bluegrass Album for 2009. Cherryholmes III: Don't Believe - Cherryholmes Del McCoury Band - Live At The 2008

The video Brace told us about two weeks ago of rockers The Raconteurs performing an impromptu acoustic version of their song Old Enough with Ricky Skaggs on mandolin has been released by Warner Brothers. It runs to just under seven minutes

Rock group The Raconteurs are retelling a recent single, Old Enough. The song is from their CD Consolers of the Lonely, released in March of 2008. Old Enough was released as a single barely a week ago. The release included

Video of Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder performing Uncle Pen on the CBS Saturday Early Show has been posted at CBS.com. Ricky talks briefly about his new Cracker Barrel exclusive CD, The High Notes, which includes reworked versions of his country

Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder will appear tomorrow (10/25) on the CBS Saturday Early Show. The show airs live from 7:00 to 9:00 a.m. (eastern), but is carried at different times by CBS affiliates across the US. Check the show schedule online

Our own intrepid correspondent, Richard Thompson , has arrived in Nashville from the UK to attend the IBMA convention next week. This is his first trip to IBMA in 20 years, and we thought that his impressions and considerations would

The Grand Ole Opry is taking on a bluegrass flavor this weekend as the World Of Bluegrass prepares to descend on Nashville. Tonight's Friday Opry (9/26) will feature Del McCoury, Ricky Skaggs, The Whites, Grascals and Jesse McReynolds. On Saturday night, they'll

Charlie Haden is a name that serious jazz fans will recognize, but for folks in the bluegrass an acoustic world, it may not be familiar. With his star-studded new release, Rambling Boy, out this week, you might expect him to

Earlier this month (September 12-13) Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder was among the headliners at the Gstaad Country Night festival in Switzerland. Since 1989 this event has brought top American acts, and European artists who perform American music, to Swiss

For those who are close to Pigeon Forge, TN, Ricky Skaggs will be appearing at the Cracker Barrel on Highway 441 this Friday evening from 7-8:30 PM. Skaggs recently released a new CD on the Cracker Barrel label. The CD, titled