Video of Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder performing Uncle Pen on the CBS Saturday Early Show has been posted at CBS.com.
Ricky talks briefly about his new Cracker Barrel exclusive CD, The High Notes, which includes reworked versions of his country hits in a bluegrass style, and then he and the boys tear it up.
Here’s the video, which follows after a brief CBS commercial message.
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For those who are close to Pigeon Forge, TN, Ricky Skaggs will be appearing at the Cracker Barrel on Highway 441 this Friday evening from 7-8:30 PM.
Skaggs recently released a new CD on the Cracker Barrel label. The CD, titled The High Notes, contains 12 of Skaggs' previous country hit songs, redone...
Ricky Skaggs has covered bluegrass heroes Bill Monroe and the Stanley Brothers. Now, he has covered himself.
Skaggs, who had a dozen #1 hits as a country singer before returning to his bluegrass roots in 1997, re-recorded his country hits to give them a bluegrass spin for a new project with Cracker...
Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder will appear tomorrow (10/25) on the CBS Saturday Early Show.
The show airs live from 7:00 to 9:00 a.m. (eastern), but is carried at different times by CBS affiliates across the US.
Check the show schedule online to double check when it will be broadcast in your...
Ricky Skaggs and his collaboration with Bruce Hornsby have been the topic of a number of recent pieces on The Bluegrass Blog.
We told you earlier this month about the two appearing on the CBS Early Show with Skaggs' band, Kentucky Thunder, on July 13, and have two updates that relate to that appearance.
First...
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 &...
We're now being treated to a performance by Ricky Skaggs & the Whites.
They are performing the title cut from their new CD, Salt of the Earth.
Several members of Kentucky Thunder are on stage as the backing band....
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,...
Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder will be the musical guests on tonight's (7/22) edition of The Late, Late Show with Craig Ferguson, which airs on CBS at 12:30 a.m. (both Eastern and Pacific time).
They will perform Toy Heart from Honoring The Fathers Of Bluegrass. This CD, released earlier this...
Saturday, December 10 at 9:00 p.m. (EST) will be the first of five airings of Ricky Skaggs' Christmas special on Country Music Television (CMT). Entitled Christmas Time Is Here: A Skaggs Family Celebration, the one hour program will feature Ricky Skaggs, The Whites, Molly and Luke Skaggs, Rachel White,...
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....
SignOnSanDiego.com is reporting that Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder will be performing with the San Diego Symphony this August as part of the Summer Pops series. Two performances are scheduled for August 4 and 5. The title of the performances is Red, White and Bluegrass With Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky...
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....
This afternoon, I had a lovely chat with Lynn Morris and Marshall Wilborn. Longtime bluegrass fans are well familiar with Lynn’s many years as a performer, bandleader and friend to our music, and we all felt a great loss when she suffered a stroke in Match of 2003, keeping her off the road and out [...]
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And another Skaggs appearance on Huckabee…listen for the bass, which is quite audible, the guy plays just fine:
http://video.google.com/videosearch?source=ig&hl=en&rlz=&=&q=skaggs%20huckabee&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wv#
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