Ricky Skaggs

Person · Open Library

Works

7

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Film & TV

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

Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

United States

Active from

1954

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

111,747

Total plays

1,049,105

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

Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Gender

male

Citizenship

United States

Occupation

record producer

Award

National Medal of Arts

Genre

Christian music

Instrument

voice

Official website

www.rickyskaggs.com

Image

Ricky Skaggs, Cambridge Festivals 2001-2014 (967447380).jpg

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