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Brance told us last month about a new CD due next month that features a studio collaboration between pop star Bruce Hornsby and bluegrass' Ricky Skaggs. He also made reference to a live show taping for CMT's Crossroads show recorded in Nashville on January 18. That show debuts on CMT tonight (2/24) at 9:00 p.m. [...]
Last week we told you about a couple of ebay auctions by WDVX in Knoxville that were part of it's 2007 fundraising efforts. The first auction was for an autographed Martin DXM guitar. The second auction was an autographed Tony Rice model Santa Cruz guitar. Friday evening the third, and final, instrument went up for [...]
The 49th annual Grammy Awards were presented last night, and a few of our own were honored with awards. The biggest bluegrass award of the night was given to Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder who took home the Grammy for Best Bluegrass Album, for their most recent work, Instrumentals. I believe this is the 12th [...]
Long time band member of Doyle Lawson's Quicksilver, Jamie Dailey is partnering up with Darrin Vincent, of Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder, to start a new group called The Dailey Vincent Band. The new band won't debut until 2008 though. Both Dailey and Vincent are going to continue their current gigs for the year of [...]
We recently told you about Ricky Skaggs' plans for a tribute album to THE bluegrass band (Monroe with Lester and Earl). Now we bring you news of a CD that is slated for a March 20, 2007 release. The album is a collaborative effort on the part of Skaggs and pianist Bruce Hornsby. The CD [...]
We posted about the Ricky Skaggs signature Master Model F5 mandolin when it was announced at IBMA '06, and again when it first appeared on Gibson's web site. The mandolin is being officially introduced this week at the Winter NAMM show, and Gibson has released a short online video of Ricky playing, and talking about [...]
An article from the Jan 10, 2007 edition of The Morning Call, a paper out of Allentown, PA, that focuses on Ricky Skaggs, his love for bluegrass, and his religious faith, has appeared on the PopMatters.com website. PopMatters describes itself as an international magazine of cultural criticism. Our scope is broadly cast on all things [...]
The performance this weekend by Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder at The Birchmere in Alexandria, VA has generated some press in and around the US capital. Richard Harrington has a lengthy piece in today's Washington Post which looks at Ricky's long career in music, and his early days living in VA and working for the [...]
There are a number of other bluegrass artists with Grammy nominations announced yesterday. Rhonda Vincent and Bobby Osborne are nominated in the Best Country Collaboration With Vocals category for Midnight Angel, from Rhonda's All American Bluegrass Girl CD. The Del McCoury Band received a nomination for The Promised Land in the Best Southern, Country, Or [...]
We posted back in October about several new bluegrass instruments which Gibson debuted at the IBMA trade show. At that time, we mentioned the Ricky Skaggs signature mandolin, and indicated that no further information was available on the Gibson web site. The Gibson site now has a detail page about this mandolin, which is called [...]
