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Skaggs, Ricky

LC control no.n 91112398
Descriptive conventionsrda
LC classificationML420.S5866 Biography
Personal name headingSkaggs, Ricky
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Variant(s)Scaggs, Ricky Lee
See alsoCorporate body: Kentucky Thunder (Musical group)
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Associated countryUnited States
LocatedLexington (Ky.) Hendersonville (Tenn.)
Birth date1954-07-18
Place of birthLawrence County (Ky.)
Profession or occupationCountry musicians
Found inGreatest country hits of the 80's, 1981 [SR] p1988: container (Ricky Skaggs)
McCloud, B. Definitive country (Skaggs, Ricky; given name: Ricky Lee Skaggs; b. July 18, 1954, Cordell, Ky.; singer, songwriter, guitar, mandolin, fiddle)
Kentucky encyclopedia, ©1992: page 825 (Ricky Scaggs; played with Ralph Stanley's Clinch Mountain Boys, then joined the Kentucky Gentlemen. Moved to Lexington, Kentucky in 1974 where he played mandolin and fiddle for J.D. Crowe and the New South, before forming his own band, Boone Creek, in 1975.)
Wikipedia, viewed December 23, 2019: under “Ricky Scaggs” (born July 18, 1954 in Cordell [Lawrence County], Kentucky; is a bluegrass singer and songwriter, plays mandolin, guitar, banjo and fiddle; founder of the band Kentucky Thunder, aka Ricky Scaggs and Kentucky Thunder (approx. 1997))
His website, viewed December 23, 2019 (lives in Hendersonville, Tennessee.)
Associated languageeng