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Ricky Skaggs

real name Ricky Lee Skaggs

Cordell, United States · b. 1954-07-18

Ricky Skaggs is credited on 1,371 releases across 339 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1971–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.

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1,371

Credits

339

Albums

6

Decades active

289

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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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1,371 releases · 339 albums · active 1971–2025

  • Performance · 2,720
  • Other credits · 1,017
  • Production · 258
  • Engineering · 11

Studios: Enactron Truck · Magnolia Sound Studios · Enactron Studios · Enactron Studio Two

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