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8 de sept. de 2020 · Skaggs took Cordle’s song and made a bluegrass cut of it, featuring lead guitar, banjo and dobro. Skaggs, still a long way away from achieving his eventual mainstream success, joked with Cordle that, should he make it big, he’d cut “a lot” of Cordle’s songs and do a re-cut of “Highway 40 Blues.”
Rickie Lee Skaggs (born July 18, 1954), known professionally as Ricky Skaggs, is an American neotraditional country and bluegrass singer, musician, producer, and composer. He primarily plays mandolin ; however, he also plays fiddle , guitar, mandocaster , and banjo .
Desde los 90, Skaggs abraza las raíces bluegrass a la par que experimenta con nuevos sonidos. Con su banda, los Kentucky Thunder, es un ganador permanente de Premios Grammy y de la Asociación internacional de música bluegrass por sus álbumes.
11 de sept. de 2017 · How Ricky Skaggs Redefined Bluegrass and Brought It to the Mainstream Neotraditional star infused his Eighties hits with exceptional playing and Appalachian harmony By Jon Freeman
July 18, 1954. Birthplace. Cordell, Kentucky. Ricky Skaggs was arguably bluegrass music’s hottest young picker and singer in the 1970s, both heir apparent to the reigning legends and a leader of the progressive bluegrass movement.
17 de jun. de 2009 · He’s been a flat-out phenom since the age of six, and now at 55 (with thirteen Grammy Awards to his name) he’s revered as the Ambassador of Bluegrass. Bluegrass and country music aren’t everybody’s cup of tea, but nobody who knows anything about chops has anything but respect, if not awe, for Skaggs’ abilities.
With Crowe, Ricky participated in one of the landmark bluegrass albums of all time, the self-titled J.D. Crowe and the New South (1975). Familiarly known by its Rounder Records catalog number, “0044,” it included guitarist Tony Rice, rising Dobro star Jerry Douglas, and long-time Crowe associate Bobby Slone on bass and fiddle.
