Skaggs & Rice
Released: 1980
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Released: 1980
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Skaggs & Rice is a lovely duet album between Ricky Skaggs and Tony Rice. The two musicians run through a number of bluegrass classics, performing them in a spare, simple old-timey style, backed...
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Comin' Home to Stay
Released: 1988
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Released: 1988
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Comin' Home to Stay marks Skaggs' return to traditional country, and includes "I'm Tired," "Thanks Again" and "(Angel on My Mind) That's Why I'm Walkin'." ~ Jason Ankeny, All Music Guide
Highways & Heartaches
Released: 1982
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Released: 1982
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On 1982's Highways & Heartaches, Ricky Skaggs had developed his bluegrass roots with new traditionalist sensibilities and catchy pop tunes that fuel this album, which is one of his best. Four of...
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Love's Gonna Get Ya
Released: 1986
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Released: 1986
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Skaggs continued to inch closer to modern mainstream country on Love's Gonna Get Ya, which features the hit "Love's Gonna Get You Someday." ~ Jason Ankeny, All Music Guide
Favorite Country Songs - SONY
Released: 1985
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Released: 1985
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On numerous albums recorded during the height of Ricky Skaggs' domination of the country charts in the mid-'80s, he always recorded tunes written or influenced by the pioneers of country and...
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Waitin' for the Sun to Shine
Released: 1981
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Released: 1981
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His first album after signing with Epic Records, this one took Skaggs into the mainstream, in effect beginning the new-traditionalist movement. It has a simple, mountain approach, with lots of...
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My Father's Son
Released: 1991
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Released: 1991
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A concept album about families, My Father's Son is the Skaggs album that owes the least to bluegrass. Skaggs is concerned with the legacies fathers leave their sons, both the wisdom ("Father Knows...
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Don't Cheat in Our Hometown
Released: 1983
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Released: 1983
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Ricky Skaggs maintained his status on the country charts in 1984 with Don't Cheat in Our Hometown. Skaggs' combination of bluegrass, honky tonk, and pop material reigned at the center of country...
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Sweet Temptation
Released: 1979
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Released: 1979
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With guest vocals by then-boss Emmylou Harris, Skaggs' first solo effort (not counting the Boone Creek project) is equal parts bluegrass and Harris-styled new traditionalism. ~ Dan Cooper, All...
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