been born in 1954 in Cordell Kentucky.
gotten your first mandolin at age 5.
been on the same stage with Bill Monroe, while playing Bill’s 1923 Gibson Lloyd Loar signed mandolin at age 6.
played with Flatt & Scruggs at age 7.
joined Ralph Stanley’s band at age 17.
then gone on to be in Emmylou Harris’ Hot Band, and switched from playing bluegrass music to playing country music.
become a member of the Grand Ole Opry in 1982 (the youngest member at that time to have been inducted).
started your own record label at age 43.
then gone from performing country music back to performing bluegrass music.
won a Grammy Award for “Best Bluegrass Album” in 1999.
won your fifteenth Grammy Award in the year 2000.
let you grey hair grow longer than what is accepted in certain conservative bluegrass music circles.
been inducted into The Country Music Hall Of Fame, and The Bluegrass Music Hall Of Fame in 2018.
done all of this to become Ricky Skaggs in the year 2019.
