Ninety-nine years ago today, an early bluegrass legend who helped further the fledgling genre and launch multiple stars was born.

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 ...

Having achieved a combined 55 years in both bluegrass and country music, 15-time Grammy-winner and Country Music Hall of Famer Ricky Skaggs speaks with The Tennessean about his forthcoming Christmas ...

Ricky Skaggs speaks about bluegrass music with an almost evangelical fervor. He plays it that way, too. “The reason God loves bluegrass so much is its purity, its integrity,” the 52-year-old ...

Don’t expect the familiar bluegrass tunes from Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder on Thursday, Dec. 5, at the Fox Tucson Theatre. “We’re not going to be doing the Stanley Brothers or Bill Monroe or my ...

Ricky Skaggs is in the Country Music Hall of Fame, the IBMA Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame, the GMA Gospel Music Hall of Fame, and the Musicians Hall of Fame. In other words, the 70-year-old ...

Snow caps the mountain while an inferno fires the enormously musical heart of Ricky Skaggs. Twenty years after J.D. Sumner declared “Country rocks … but bluegrass rules” on Skaggs’ return to bluegrass ...