From the moment he picked up a mandolin at age five, Ricky Skaggs has been making music.
By age six, Ricky was playing on stage. By age seven he’d made his first TV appearance alongside legends Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs. And he was a professional musician by his teens.
After playing, arranging, and producing for other artists for several years, Skaggs launched his solo career in 1980. And the awards have been piling up ever since.
Fast forward to 2013 when Ricky Skaggs wrote an autobiography called Kentucky Traveler. He and I met one warm summer day that year to talk about it.
So here now, from 2013, Ricky Skaggs.
Ricky Skaggs turned 71 in July.