Ricky Skaggs

Ricky Skaggs (born July 18, 1954, Cordell, Kentucky, U.S.) is an American mandolin and fiddle virtuoso, singer, and music producer who played a leading role in the New Traditionalist movement of the 1980s by adapting bluegrass music’s instrumentation and historically conscious sensibility to mainstream country music. Skaggs was a child prodigy on the mandolin, and by age seven he had already played onstage with bluegrass founder Bill Monroe and appeared on the Grand Ole Opry...