Bluegrass and country music legend Ricky Skaggs plays Nashville's Ryman Auditorium on Sunday with Kentucky Thunder.
"Bill Monroe, often called the father of Bluegrass music, established the classic Bluegrass sound - high, pure tenor voice, powerful mandolin solos against the banjo background. Bluegrass remains ...
Lebanon’s John Mackin got his first taste of bluegrass music as a young boy in the mid-1950s. Mackin, 74, recalled listening to two women sing “Foggy River” as a man accompanied them on ...
Wilfong describes the band as a “maximalist project,” incorporating sounds from each of the musicians’ backgrounds: Celtic, classical, country Western, jazz, pop and rock. “Bluegrass music is ...
By 1971, he and another bluegrass-influenced Country Music Hall of Famer ... and guested with Vince Gill on the 1995 instant classic "Go Rest High on That Mountain." By 1997, Skaggs had switched ...