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Just a quick reminder about a live performance Brance told us about last month. Bruce Hornsby and Ricky Skaggs will be appearing on this Friday's (7/13) edition of the CBS Early Show, along with Ricky's band, Kentucky Thunder. They will perform songs from their recent collaboration, Ricky Skaggs & Bruce Hornsby, live from Raleigh, NC. [...]
This post comes from our semi-regular correspondent, Richard F. Thompson. He writes from England, where he is also a longstanding contributor to British Bluegrass News, a quarterly print publication where he also briefly served as editor. Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder are to play some dates in the UK at the end of July through [...]
The Early Show on CBS is sponsoring a series of six concerts this summer with different artists. It's all part of the Great American Vacation series. The six artists booked for the concert series are quite disparate and include such rock stars as Hootie & the Blowfish, and country outlaws Big & Rich. Add to [...]
Rebel Records has reissued two more bluegrass classics as download only releases, available only from eMusic and iTunes. Both were originally released on LP in the early-to-mid 1970s. Folks these days know Ricky Skaggs as a successful band leader, vocalist and mandolinist, but when That's It was released in 1975, Skaggs was a journeyman bluegrass [...]
Speaking of Ricky Skaggs and Bruce Hornsby... Yesterday's edition of The New York Times carried a review of their concert this Tuesday night in the Big Apple. Mr. Hornsby, who is fluent in piano idioms from gospel to modern jazz, aligned his solos with bluegrass timing — fast, twinkling, unsyncopated lines, sometimes playing parallel to [...]
Thanks to The Mayor of Bluegrass for alerting us that Ricky Skaggs will be appearing on the Conan O'Brien show tonight at 11:30 PM CST. Skaggs will be appearing with Bruce Hornsby and performing a tune from their duet CD. If you're inclined to stay up that late, be sure to tune in and hear [...]
The newest music and interview feature on the AT&T blue room includes a live performance from Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder with Bruce Hornsby, filmed during a recent show at BB King's club in New York City. There are live video clips of The Dreaded Spoon, Mandolin Rain and The Way It Is, all taken [...]
Here's a fun video clip which has made the rounds on the Internet a number of times. It features a seven year old Ricky Skaggs performing with Flatt & Scruggs on their television program. He sings Ruby and plays his mandolin on Earl Scruggs' normally instrumental version of the song, Reuben. This clip appears to [...]
Yesterday's edition of The Washington Post included a brief review of the new release from Ricky Skaggs & Bruce Hornsby, which Brance mentioned earlier this year. It features both Skaggs and Hornsby as vocalists and instrumentalists, with Skaggs' Kentucky Thunder band as the primary rhythm section. The music includes mostly new compositions from the pair, [...]
If you don't have any other plans tonight, you may want to tune into the Grand Ole Opry on GAC TV. Ricky Skaggs will be on the televised portion of the show. Other bluegrass artists scheduled to perform at Del McCoury and Bobby Osborne. The show airs at 8PM ET on GAC. You'll need to [...]
