Artist

Ricky Skaggs

Cordell, United States · b. 1954

Ricky Skaggs is a musician from Cordell, United States, active since 1954. Their discography on Gatefold includes 15 records. They also recorded with J.D. Crowe and the New South, The Country Gentlemen and Boone Creek.

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1954

Since

4 projects · 54 records in Gatefold collections

Biography

American country and bluegrass singer, multi-instrumentalist, producer, and arranger, born July 18, 1954 in Cordell, Kentucky, USA. Married to Sharon White.
Skaggs showed prowess at an early age, playing mandolin on stage with Bill Monroe aged 5, and appearing on TV with Flatt & Scruggs at 7. He emerged as a professional bluegrass musician in 1971, when he and Keith Whitley joined Ralph Stanley's band The Clinch Mountain Boys. He went on to record and perform with The Country Gentlemen and J.D. Crowe & The New South, and led Boone Creek, which featured Jerry Douglas, before turning to more mainstream county in the late 1970s when he replaced Rodney Crowell in Emmylou Harris' The Hot Band.
Inducted into both the Country Music Hall of Fame, the IBMA Hall of Fame and the Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame in 2018.

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