Skaggs said he hopes to write something to express those thoughts about Bill Monroe's mandolin. Please do Ricky. Whether a song, a poem or an essay, I can't wait to hear or read it. While Skaggs ...

“When Ricky Skaggs came onto the country ... At 5 years old, Skaggs learned to play the mandolin. The next year, he added guitar and memorized the chords by watching his father’s hands on ...

Ricky Skaggs is in the Country ... He learned to play the mandolin when he was 5 years old. The following year, he added guitar and memorized the chords by watching his father’s hands on the ...

McCONNELSVILLE − Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder will perform ... Skaggs struck his first chords on a mandolin more than 50 years ago and this 15-time Grammy Award winner continues to do ...

In 1960 in rural Kentucky, a traveling welder purchased a $5 mandolin from a pawn shop for ... makings of a country music song, but it’s Ricky Skaggs’s real life. After making his onstage ...

“It’s Pee Wee Lambert’s mandolin.” FEB. 17 GRAND OLE OPRY with RICKY SKAGGS: 7 p.m. Grand Ole Opry House, $40-$99, opry.com Whoa! Five-foot four-inch Darrell “Pee Wee” Lambert was the ...

Ricky Skaggs started playing mandolin when he was just 5. Sixty-two years later – after his pile of Grammys, country and bluegrass hall of fame inductions and National Medal of Arts - I ask ...

304 pages The title of Streissguth’s 10th book about country music is the same as that of the 1982 album by Ricky Skaggs, a platinum seller, and is thus a tribute to the mandolin player and ...

After an outdoor concert in New Hampshire in 2014, I waited in line to ask Ricky Skaggs to autograph his ... “It’s Pee Wee Lambert’s mandolin.” Need a break? Play the USA TODAY Daily ...