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Ricky Skaggs

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Also known as Ricky Lee Skaggs, Rickie Lee Skaggs

American musician, producer, and composer

Person · Open Library

Works
7

Top works

  • God Meant It for Good
  • Kentucky traveler
  • Comin' home to stay
  • Waitin' for the sun to shine
  • More than music

via Open Library + Wikidata

Film & TV

Acting · Cordell, Kentucky, USA

Rickie Lee Skaggs, 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.

Known for

  • Opry 100: A Live Celebration — Self - Performer2025
  • 35 Years of Friends: Celebrating the Music of Michael W. Smith — Self2019
  • Big Family: The Story of Bluegrass Music — Self - Musician2019
  • Country's Family Reunion Tribute Series: The Whites & Ricky Skaggs — Self2016
  • Country's Family Reunion: Sweethearts Volume One — Self2016
  • Revival: The Sam Bush Story — Self2015
  • Country's Family Reunion: Simply Bluegrass - Volumes One & Two — Himself2013
  • The Tao of Bluegrass: A Portrait of Peter Rowan — Self2013
  • An Appalachian Dawn — voice2011
  • Bluegrass Underground — Self2011

via TMDB

Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
111,747
Total plays
1,049,105

Tags

bluegrasscountryfolkamericanamountain

Ricky Skaggs (born July 18, 1954 in Lawrence County, Kentucky) is a 14 time Grammy Winner and a country and bluegrass star, singer, musician, producer, and composer. Skaggs's music career began in 1970 when he joined Ralph Stanley's bluegrass band, the Clinch Mountain Boys. He plays mandolin, fiddle, guitar and banjo. For a few years, Skaggs was a member of Emmylou Harris's "Hot Band". He wrote the arrangements for Harris's bluegrass-roots album, Roses in the Snow. <a href="https://www.last.fm/

via Last.fm · Ricky Skaggs

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