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Justin Moses will be the new banjo player with Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder, starting this Friday at the Isle of Capri Casino Hotel in Bettendorf, IA. He is taking over for Jim Mills, who recently announced his intention to leave the band after 14 years of service. Moses had been a member of the [...]
Early last month we reported that banjo picker Jim Mills was leaving Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder, a job he had held for the past 14 years. The move came as a shock to a lot of Skaggs/Mills fans, and caught a good many folks in the bluegrass music business by surprise. With the announcement [...]
After 14 years holding down the banjo spot with Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder, Jim Mills is leaving the band after this week. Jim has been with Skaggs almost since the very beginning of Ricky's full-time return to bluegrass music. He has branded the sound of Kentucky Thunder with his distinctive, driving banjo style which [...]
After 14 years holding down the banjo spot with Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder, Jim Mills is leaving the band after this week. Jim has been with Skaggs almost since the very beginning of Ricky's full-time return to bluegrass music. He has branded the sound of Kentucky Thunder with his distinctive, driving banjo style which [...]
Larry Stephenson's 20th Anniversary CD, with the delightfully appropriate title 20th Anniversary, was released earlier this week on his brand new label, Whysper Dream Music. The label takes its name from he and Dreama's baby girl, Falon Whysper, whose birth in April 2009 was the culmination of many years of dreams and prayers. The new [...]
The Washington Post Clik Track blog had a piece last Friday (1/8) on bluegrass hair, and who better to discuss it than Ricky Skaggs. This was actually an offshoot of a more serious discussion about the future of country music, and how much he prefers working in bluegrass - specifically because it has stayed truer [...]
Last week we told you about the G-Run that Ricky Skaggs and Wichita Rutherford were putting up for sale (you can read the story here in case you missed it). That auction has begun on ebay and will run all week through this coming Sunday, December 20th. The full proceeds of the auction are being [...]
Pop Matters, an online journal concerning all manner of popular culture, is out with their list of The Best Bluegrass of 2009. Compiled by Steve Leftridge and Juli Thanki - both freelance writers on country, roots and Americana music - the list represents their Top Ten bluegrass CDs from this nearly-completed year. We might all [...]
Leave it to our buddy Wichita Rutherford to come up with something no one has ever done before. He got the wild idea of capturing one of Ricky Skaggs' G-Runs in a mason jar, and auctioning it off on Ebay. As the video shows, Ricky was somewhat reluctant at first, but after Wichita suggested the [...]
But not for him... Ricky Skaggs has recently joined with World Vision to help sponsor children living amidst dire poverty in undeveloped countries. In the true spirit of Christmas, he is asking his many fans and friends to consider partnering with World Vision to do the same. He has offered to send a free copy [...]
