Ricky Skaggs

Over this next few weeks, two benefit concerts will be held to raise funds for The Tony Rice Foundation, which is collecting donations to assist Tony while he seeks to recover from both his arm and voice problems. Over $60,000

Gabriel Communications will debut its latest set of Country's Family Reunion programs, Simply Bluegrass, this week on RFD-TV. Produced by Larry Black, host of Larry's Country Diner, it follows his familiar Reunion concept: gather up a room full of top

Quick response from Skaggs Family Records with regard to a new banjo player for Kentucky Thunder... We are told that Justin Moses will perform with the band through the end of January, and that Cory Walker will then take over temporarily

Justin Moses, who has been playing banjo and occasional reso-guitar with Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder since Spring of 2010, has announced that he is leaving the group. But he won't be moving away from bluegrass. Justin just wants more flexibility

Kentucky Traveler - My Life in Music by Ricky Skaggs, with Eddie Dean I enjoyed Ricky Skaggs’ autobiography Kentucky Traveler, so help me, I really did. When I first heard of it I was skeptical, and afraid it would be sort of

When Ricky Skaggs and Bruce Hornsby performed recently on the Conan show, they taped this web exclusive version of the Christmas classic, Christmas Time's A Comin'. Enjoy.

The good news about bluegrass, Ricky Skaggs said Thursday at the National Press Club in Washington, DC, is that it’s attracting new generations of fans and talented pickers. The bad news, he added, is that those fans are just like younger

Every time I get angry about cable TV rates or restrictions, and turn my mind to the notion of doing without, there are a few things that slam on the brakes. One is live sports, and the other is DVR.

This week the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in Nashville hosted Ricky Skaggs as an artist-in-residence. Given his prominence in both bluegrass and country music, the museum sponsored two nights of shows: one celebrating Skaggs in each genre,

Earlier this month Ricky Skaggs and Bruce Hornsby stopped by Yahoo Music to record a brief set of songs from their new live CD, Cluck Ol' Hen, with Kentucky Thunder, Ricky's band of red hot super-pickers, in tow. Here's their grassified version