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Ricky Skaggs

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Rickie Lee Skaggs (born July 18, 1954), known professionally as Ricky Skaggs, is an American country and bluegrass singer, musician, producer, and composer. [1]

91 relations: Album, Alison Krauss, Appalachian music, Arrangement, Ashley Monroe, Atlantic Records, Bandleader, Banjo, Barry Gibb, BBC, Berklee College of Music, Bill Monroe, Billboard (magazine), Bluegrass music, Bobby Osborne, Brendan Benson, Bruce Hornsby, Chet Atkins, Clint Black, CMT (U.S. TV channel), Composer, Cordell, Kentucky, Country music, Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, David Grisman, Dwight Yoakam, Earl Scruggs, Eastern Kentucky University, Electric mandolin, Emmylou Harris, Epic Records, Fiddle, Folk music, Gibson Brothers (bluegrass duo), Gospel music, Gospel Music Hall of Fame, Grand Ole Opry, Guitar, Hillary Scott, Hollywood Records, Irish traditional music, J. D. Crowe, Jack White, Jam band, Jeff & Sheri Easter, Jerry Douglas, Jesse McReynolds, Joe Diffie, Keith Whitley, Kentucky, ..., Kentucky Thunder, Legacy Recordings, Lester Flatt, Mandolin, Martha White, Marty Stuart, Merle Haggard, Moody Bluegrass, Musician, New South (band), Pam Tillis, Patty Loveless, Phish, Progressive rock, Ralph Stanley, Randy Travis, Rebel Records, Record producer, Restless (Carl Perkins song), Ronnie McCoury, Roses in the Snow, Rounder Records, Ry Cooder, Salt of the Earth (Ricky Skaggs & The Whites album), Sam Bush, Session musician, Singer-songwriter, Singing, Steve Wariner, Sugar Hill Records, The Brock McGuire Band, The Country Gentlemen, The Lewis Family, The Moody Blues, The Raconteurs, The Whites, Todd Phillips (musician), Tony Rice, Travis Tritt, Vince Gill, You and Me (The Moody Blues song). Expand index (41 more) »

Album

An album is a collection of audio recordings issued as a single item on CD, record, audio tape or another medium.

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Alison Krauss

Alison Maria Krauss (born July 23, 1971) is an American bluegrass-country singer and musician.

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Appalachian music

Appalachian music is the music of the region of Appalachia in the Eastern United States.

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Arrangement

In music, an arrangement is a musical reconceptualization of a previously composed work.

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Ashley Monroe

Ashley Lauren Monroe (born September 10, 1986) is an American country music singer-songwriter.

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Atlantic Records

Atlantic Recording Corporation (simply known as Atlantic Records) is an American major record label founded in October 1947 by Ahmet Ertegün and Herb Abramson.

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Bandleader

A bandleader is the leader of a music group such as a rock or pop group or jazz quartet.

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Banjo

The banjo is a four-, five- or six-stringed instrument with a thin membrane stretched over a frame or cavity as a resonator, called the head.

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Barry Gibb

Sir Barry Alan Crompton Gibb (born 1 September 1946) is a British singer, songwriter, musician and record producer who rose to worldwide fame as a co-founder of the group Bee Gees, one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed groups in the history of popular music.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster.

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Berklee College of Music

Berklee College of Music, located in Boston, Massachusetts, United States, is the largest independent college of contemporary music in the world.

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Bill Monroe

William Smith Monroe (September 13, 1911 – September 9, 1996) was an American mandolinist, singer, and songwriter, who helped to create the style of music known as bluegrass.

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Billboard (magazine)

Billboard (styled as billboard) is an American entertainment media brand owned by the Billboard-Hollywood Reporter Media Group, a division of Eldridge Industries.

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Bluegrass music

Bluegrass music is a form of American roots music named after Kentucky mandolin player and songwriter Bill Monroe's band, the Bluegrass Boys 1939-96, and furthered by musicians who played with him, including 5-string banjo player Earl Scruggs and guitarist Lester Flatt, or who simply admired the high-energy instrumental and vocal music Monroe's group created, and carried it on into new bands, some of which created subgenres (Progressive Bluegrass, Newgrass, Dawg Music etc.). Bluegrass is influenced by the music of Appalachia and other styles, including gospel and jazz.

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Bobby Osborne

Bobby Osborne (born December 7, 1931) is a bluegrass musician known for his mandolin playing and high lead vocals.

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Brendan Benson

Brendan Benson (born November 14, 1970) is an American musician and singer-songwriter.

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Bruce Hornsby

Bruce Randall Hornsby (born November 23, 1954) is an American singer and pianist.

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Chet Atkins

Chester Burton "Chet" Atkins (June 20, 1924 – June 30, 2001), known as "Mr.

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Clint Black

Clint Patrick Black (born February 4, 1962) is an American country singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and record producer.

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CMT (U.S. TV channel)

CMT, originally launched as CMTV, is an American basic cable and satellite television channel that is owned by Viacom Global Entertainment Group, a unit of the Viacom Media Networks division of Viacom.

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Composer

A composer (Latin ''compōnō''; literally "one who puts together") is a musician who is an author of music in any form, including vocal music (for a singer or choir), instrumental music, electronic music, and music which combines multiple forms.

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Cordell, Kentucky

Cordell is an unincorporated community in Lawrence County, Kentucky, in the United States.

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Country music

Country music, also known as country and western or simply country, is a genre of popular music that originated in the southern United States in the early 1920s.

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Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum

The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in Nashville, Tennessee, is one of the world's largest museums and research centers dedicated to the preservation and interpretation of American vernacular music.

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David Grisman

David Grisman (born March 23, 1945) is an American mandolinist.

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Dwight Yoakam

Dwight David Yoakam (born October 23, 1956) is an American singer-songwriter, musician and actor, known for his pioneering-style of country music.

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Earl Scruggs

Earl Eugene Scruggs (January 6, 1924 – March 28, 2012) was an American musician noted for popularizing a three-finger banjo picking style, now called "Scruggs style", that is a defining characteristic of bluegrass music.

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Eastern Kentucky University

Eastern Kentucky University (Eastern or EKU) is a regional comprehensive university in Richmond, Kentucky.

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Electric mandolin

The electric mandolin is an instrument tuned and played as the mandolin and amplified in similar fashion to an electric guitar.

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Emmylou Harris

Emmylou Harris (born April 2, 1947) is an American singer, songwriter and musician.

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Epic Records

Epic Records is an American record label owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America, Inc., the North American division of Japanese conglomerate Sony.

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Fiddle

A fiddle is a bowed string musical instrument, most often a violin.

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Folk music

Folk music includes both traditional music and the genre that evolved from it during the 20th century folk revival.

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Gibson Brothers (bluegrass duo)

The Gibson Brothers is an American bluegrass band which has performed professionally since the late 1980s.

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Gospel music

Gospel music is a genre of Christian music.

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Gospel Music Hall of Fame

The Gospel Music Hall of Fame, created in 1971 by the Gospel Music Association, is a Hall of Fame dedicated exclusively to recognizing meaningful contributions by individuals and groups in all forms of gospel music.

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Grand Ole Opry

The Grand Ole Opry is a weekly country-music stage concert in Nashville, Tennessee, which was founded on November 28, 1925, by George D. Hay as a one-hour radio "barn dance" on WSM.

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Guitar

The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that usually has six strings.

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Hillary Scott

Hillary Dawn Scott-Tyrrell (born April 1, 1986), known professionally as Hillary Scott, is an American singer and songwriter.

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Hollywood Records

Hollywood Records, Inc. is an American record label of the Disney Music Group.

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Irish traditional music

Irish traditional music (also known as Irish trad, Irish folk music, and other variants) is a genre of folk music that developed in Ireland.

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J. D. Crowe

James Dee Crowe (born August 27, 1937, in Lexington, Kentucky) is an American banjo player and bluegrass band leader.

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Jack White

John Anthony White (né Gillis; born July 9, 1975) is an American musician, singer, songwriter, record producer and actor.

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Jam band

A jam band is a musical group whose live albums and concerts relate to a fan culture that began in the 1960s with the Grateful Dead, and continued with The Allman Brothers Band, which had lengthy jams at concerts.

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Jeff & Sheri Easter

Jeff & Sheri Easter are a Southern gospel duo.

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Jerry Douglas

Gerald Calvin "Jerry" Douglas (born May 28, 1956) is an American resonator guitar and lap steel guitar player and record producer.

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Jesse McReynolds

Jesse Lester McReynolds (born July 9, 1929) is an American bluegrass musician.

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Joe Diffie

Joe Logan Diffie (born December 28, 1958) is an American country music singer.

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Keith Whitley

Jackie Keith WhitleyWhitburn, Joel (2006).

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Kentucky

Kentucky, officially the Commonwealth of Kentucky, is a state located in the east south-central region of the United States.

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Kentucky Thunder

Kentucky Thunder, or Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder, is the band that plays with Ricky Skaggs.

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Legacy Recordings

Legacy Recordings is an American record label that is a division of Sony Music.

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Lester Flatt

Lester Raymond Flatt (June 19, 1914 – May 11, 1979) was an American bluegrass guitarist and mandolinist, best known for his collaboration with banjo picker Earl Scruggs in The Foggy Mountain Boys (popularly known as "Flatt and Scruggs").

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Mandolin

A mandolin (mandolino; literally "small mandola") is a stringed musical instrument in the lute family and is usually plucked with a plectrum or "pick".

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Martha White

Martha White is a U.S. brand of flour, cornmeal, cornbread mixes, cake mixes, muffin mixes, and similar products.

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Marty Stuart

John Marty Stuart (born September 30, 1958) is an American country music singer-songwriter, known for both his traditional style, and eclectic merging of rockabilly, honky tonk, and traditional country music.

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Merle Haggard

Merle Ronald Haggard (April 6, 1937 – April 6, 2016) was an American country singer, songwriter, guitarist, and fiddler.

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Moody Bluegrass

Moody Bluegrass is a bluegrass music project that produced two tribute albums to the British Progressive Rock band The Moody Blues.

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Musician

A musician is a person who plays a musical instrument or is musically talented.

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New South (band)

The New South is a bluegrass band formed around 1973 by banjo player J. D. Crowe.

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Pam Tillis

Pamela Yvonne Tillis (born July 24, 1957) is an American country music singer-songwriter and actress.

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Patty Loveless

Patty Loveless (born Patricia Lee Ramey; January 4, 1957) is an American country music singer.

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Phish

Phish is an American rock band that was founded at the University of Vermont in Burlington, Vermont in 1983.

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Progressive rock

Progressive rock (shortened as prog; sometimes called art rock, classical rock or symphonic rock) is a broad genre of rock music that developed in the United Kingdom and United States throughout the mid to late 1960s.

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Ralph Stanley

Ralph Edmund Stanley (February 25, 1927 – June 23, 2016), also known as Dr.

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Randy Travis

Randy Bruce Traywick (born May 4, 1959), known professionally as Randy Travis, is an American country music and Christian country music singer, songwriter, guitarist, and actor.

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Rebel Records

Rebel Records is an independent American record label based in Charlottesville, Virginia that specializes in bluegrass and old time music.

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Record producer

A record producer or track producer or music producer oversees and manages the sound recording and production of a band or performer's music, which may range from recording one song to recording a lengthy concept album.

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Restless (Carl Perkins song)

"Restless" is a 1968 song written by Carl Perkins and released as a single on Columbia Records.

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Ronnie McCoury

Ronnie McCoury is a mandolin player, singer, and songwriter born March 16, 1967.

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Roses in the Snow

Roses in the Snow is the seventh album by country music artist Emmylou Harris, released in 1980.

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Rounder Records

Rounder Records is an American record label specializing in folk, bluegrass, blues, and other forms of American roots music.

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Ry Cooder

Ryland Peter "Ry" Cooder (born March 15, 1947) is an American musician, songwriter, film score composer, and record producer.

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Salt of the Earth (Ricky Skaggs & The Whites album)

Salt of the Earth is an album by Ricky Skaggs and The Whites, released through Skaggs Family Records on September 25, 2007.

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Sam Bush

Charles Samuel Bush (born April 13, 1952) is an American mandolinist who is considered an originator of progressive bluegrass music.

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Session musician

Session musicians, studio musicians, or backing musicians are musicians hired to perform in recording sessions or live performances.

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Singer-songwriter

Singer-songwriters are musicians who write, compose, and perform their own musical material, including lyrics and melodies.

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Singing

Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice and augments regular speech by the use of sustained tonality, rhythm, and a variety of vocal techniques.

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Steve Wariner

Steven Noel Wariner (born December 25, 1954) is an American country music singer, songwriter and guitarist.

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Sugar Hill Records

Sugar Hill Records is an American bluegrass and Americana record label.

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The Brock McGuire Band

The Brock McGuire Band is an Irish Folk group fronted by Paul Brock and Manus McGuire.

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The Country Gentlemen

The Country Gentlemen were a bluegrass band that originated during the 1950s in the area of Washington, D.C., United States, and recorded and toured with various members until the death in 2004 of Charlie Waller, one of the group's founders who in its later years served as the group's leader.

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The Lewis Family

The Lewis Family is a family of gospel and bluegrass musicians from Lincolnton, Georgia.

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The Moody Blues

The Moody Blues are an English rock band formed in Birmingham in 1964.

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The Raconteurs

The Raconteurs, also known as The Saboteurs in Australia, is an American rock supergroup that was formed in Detroit, Michigan, featuring four musicians associated with earlier musical projects: Jack White (formerly of The White Stripes, currently The Dead Weather, as well as solo), Brendan Benson (solo), Jack Lawrence (of The Greenhornes, Blanche and The Dead Weather), and Patrick Keeler (also of The Greenhornes).

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The Whites

The Whites is an American country music vocal group consisting of Sharon White (born 1953), her sister Cheryl (born 1955), and their father Buck (born 1930).

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Todd Phillips (musician)

Todd Phillips (born April 21, 1953) is an American double bassist.

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Tony Rice

Tony Rice (born David Anthony Rice, June 8, 1951, Danville, Virginia, United States) is an American guitarist and bluegrass musician.

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Travis Tritt

James Travis Tritt (born February 9, 1963) is an American country music singer, songwriter, and actor.

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Vince Gill

Vincent Grant Gill (born April 12, 1957) is an American country singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist.

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You and Me (The Moody Blues song)

"You and Me" is a song by The Moody Blues from their 1972 album Seventh Sojourn.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricky_Skaggs

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