December 2, 2024 • 14 mins
The legend Ricky Skaggs joined us on the show to chat about his Hall of Fame career in music and talked about his upcoming Christmas shows as Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder Christmas is coming to a city near you! Check out rickyskaggs.com for ticket information and lots more! Tune in now to hear more!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
And welcome inside the backstage pass. Always a busy day here,
full of shows here kk t C True Country ninety
nine point nine and of course over there WSM, the
home of the grand old Ipry Brandon Morel Here as
we're presented by our friends at the Caaden Gordon Show
dot com Today's best country mix, and pleased to be
joined by one of the legends, one of the greatest
of all time to lace it up and with the
microphone a mandolin. He's done it all, the great Ricky
(00:21):
Skaggs joining us here on the backstage pass. Ricky, how
you doing greatest of all time?
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Oh well, I appreciate that. Thank you.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Always good to talk to you, Brandon. And yeah, we're
excited about coming back to the Rhymen for our Christmas show.
You know we uh we all we used to only
get to play the ryman once a year with our
Bluegrass Knights, you know, in the usually July, I guess
and but the last few years we've been doing the
(00:54):
Ricky Skaks in Kentucky's hunderd Christmas shows there.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
We we used to do Skags family Christmas and uh and.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
Then half our band uh, you know, married or or
moved away so with our kids and they and moved
to North Carolina and uh Luke started a family and
we've got two grandsons and we're all excited about Christmas
this year with them, you know. And so anyway, life
is good. We've had a busy year, but we're we're
(01:22):
looking forward to to getting these Christmas shows done.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
You know, of all your achievements, I mean, the fifteen Grammys,
no doubt you've done all in this business too. When
you look back on the career and you have time
to reflect on just the illustrious career you've had. We
mentioned the goat things like that too. But when you
look back on all the achievements and the awards, which
one are ones, Ricky, are you most proud of?
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Well?
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Kind of like kind of like which one of your
kids do you like? You know, people will say which
it's your favorite?
Speaker 2 (01:52):
You know, And.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
You know, I got to say, Grammys are great, and
a lot of people have them. There's a lot of
people that don't, you know, but I mean there's there's
a lot of a lot of musicians and artists that
that have Grammys, and and uh but I guess the
(02:15):
National Medal of Arts from President from President Trump back
in I think there's.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Two thousand eighteen, maybe seventeen.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
Or eighteen that was that was pretty special. Me and
Toby Keith got you know, got medals together, you know,
uh that year and uh, I don't know, that's it's
just a very special award. And uh, you know, of course,
I mean, you know, Communic Hall of Fame was a
(02:48):
big deal, and and Blue Recipes Call of Fame and
those kinds of things are they're great, and uh, I
guess not as not as many people in you know,
in those circles as there are Grammys going around, but anyway,
they're you know, they're they're all great.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
I mean, I don't I'm thankful for all of them.
It's just.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
You know, when you get seventy years old, like me,
you know, you kind of start to look back over
your life and over your achievements.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
And that kind of thing.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
And and I'm not sure that there's anything that I
really wanted to.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Do that I haven't done. I mean, I'm sure there's
there's stuff to do, you know. Uh, we had a
great year this year, did a.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
Lot of shows all over the country. I had great crowds,
and you know, some really stinky buses, but we had
you know, we had great, great crowds and the band
just played their hearts out all year long. And and
uh so it's just been a great year, you know. Uh,
(03:58):
mister Buck, my father in law, you know, he went
into work care this year, and and that was sad.
He lived with us for six years and and uh
and we did me and shared did the best we could,
you know, to you know, take care of him here,
but finally got to a place where we just we
just needed more help than what we were really able
(04:20):
to do. And so he's pretty happy, you know, where
he's at. And and uh we go see him and
and doesn't always know us, you know, but uh, his
his eyes will sparkle up a little bit. I think
there's a knowing inside you know, what memory he has left.
I think I think he you know, he probably couldn't
call our names necessarily, but uh, he certainly knows when
(04:42):
we're around we love on him. And and uh it's
you think about it a lot during these holiday times,
you know, with with Christmas coming up and Thanksgiving and stuff,
so you know, it's uh, it'll be a little different
this year, for sure.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Hey talk to me about, you know, just the industry
being healthy right now, with a lot of the New
York traditional music staying around. You grew up obviously in
that era too, with bluegrass and country in the nineties,
country and eighties and seeing just everything and how it's
changed so much. But those tunes such as Highway forty
Blues and Honey Open that Door, and I wouldn't change
you if I could, and of course just country Boy
and all those things, Uh don't cheat in our hometown.
(05:17):
Talk about just how that music has really just evolved
over the years with the changing of the guard kind
of in the music industry, with streaming taken over. But
those songs really, for you have really stood the test
of time, Ricky.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Well, they truly have.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
I don't know, maybe not at that somebody don't shout
out country Boy or Honey.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Open that Door.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
You know, Heartbroke was a big hit, and Highway forty Blues,
and of course we do Uncle Pen and uh and
Highway forty Blues, and you know, put three other songs
that we've had had number one hit song and people,
you know, they really a PLoud remember them, you know,
(06:02):
But yeah, it's it's great to hear them on you know,
on bluegrass radio or or or you know, Willi's Roadhouse
or something like that. You know, it's so good to
good to still hear them out there here that people
you know, still want to hear them, you know, and
so we're we're thankful for all that. It's it's really great.
I do agree with you that that, you know, roots
(06:25):
music just ain't going away. Okay, it just ain't going away.
I mean new country, newer country, the newest country.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
All that stuff.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
You know, it can just be newest as it is,
and it's but there's something about the history of country
that we all still love and the roots. And I
meet all these young guys that are selling out arenas
and stuff like that that I've never even heard their name,
never even met and met him. You know, they'll come
(06:59):
to the opera and they'll come you know, backstage, and
and they're humble and they you know, they just they
still they listen to my music, you know, growing up.
And is at the mandolin that you played, you know,
or is that the guitar that you played live in London?
You know, I love that Purple Taly, you know, And
so it's uh, it's just great, you know, to be
(07:22):
seventy years old and still still be current, you know
in a way and irrelevant, yes, maybe so. But I'm
just having a great time getting to play. I'm healthy,
thank God, you know, and and so I'm I'm really
enjoying my life.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
I really am. It's great. You know.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
We've lost a lot of the greats in the in
the business recently too, and one of them. I talked
to Willamley Goldan at Sunday Morning Country there during the
CMA week in Nashville for the big big event there,
and Joe bonsel And passed away not too long after
that too. At the same time, I wanted to get
your thoughts just on uh, you know what he meant
to the country music industry. Obviously a Hall of Famer
in his own right, and fifty years of touring with
the Oakreage Boys, and just what Joe was just a
(08:03):
fine tenor and just a great member for country music
and a great ambassador for the Oakreage Boys and so
many other things out there.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
He really was everything you said, go, you know, just
what a what a dear precious friend, you know, and
a lover of music, you know, and he loved bluegrass,
and he was so glad when I came came back
from country music, you know, a career that I had
(08:32):
for fifteen years, and started playing bluegrass again, you know,
and we took over the cage. You know, everybody, most
of the backstage people would would remember what the cage was.
And now it's now that's where where the Opry staff
band goes and has a break. It's like a break
(08:54):
bron now. But at the time, you know, it was
a storage cage and we would you know, we open
that place up and uh, you know and get back
in there and rehearse, like we might have a guitar
player that that we were looking to hire.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
And the only time we could, you know.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
We could rehearse a little bit with him, you know,
was it was back there in the cage. So you know,
it's got play hass. Before he joined my band, the
first show he played was the Opry, So, uh, we've
had a lot of people uh that that.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
That was their first show with us.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
Was walking out on the stage at the Opry and
you can imagine, you know, what they were feeling.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
But but what.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
I loved about it, we'd be back there just wearing
it out.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
You know, and Joe Bonsel was was such a fan
of the band. Joe. He loved we was calling band Joey,
you know.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
And uh he loved Joe and learned to learn to play,
you know. But when Jim Mills was in my band,
you know, uh, back in those early days, he would
come back there and just stare at Jim playing and
just be mes maras you know.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
And so he was. He was a great He was
like a lightning rod for fun, you know.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
He just loved people and he was he was the
biggest fan of the Oakridge Boys ever, you know, and
just such a cheerleader on stage and off, you know.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
So we miss him, but he's not missing us where
he is.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
Where he is, no doubt, in heaven with the Lord
and in a better place than we are right now.
And someday we'll joining that heavenly kingdom. I want to
ask you about this. I know you've got to go
here in a second, but when you look back at
all the great collaborations that you've done in your career, Ricky,
is there one or two that kind of stand out
the most and maybe separate themselves from the others. I
know you've done a lot both male and female artists too.
But I wanted to kind of get your perspective on
(10:42):
just a great collaborations and how important that is to
the industry even today.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
Well, I've loved to get to work for sharing, you know,
my wife. You know, we we did a record together.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
We did we had we had to end of the
year in nineteen eighty six was left hand.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
Every get better than this and uh but we we
were on separate labels at the time, and so we
never really got to do a whole.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Record together, you know, and uh but when.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
When it starts Skag's family, uh, you know, we were
able to do a record on our label and so
hearts like ours and that was so much fun.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
And getting to see.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
Her really work in the studio as as you know,
a production uh you.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
Know, collaborate collaborator with me, was was just so much fun.
And uh so I.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
Loved that we loved the Cooter flight skagsh thing that
we did was ry Hooter and Whits. You know, man,
that was some great, great music. And we have tons
of live shows recorded. And at some point my studio
gets finished being really uh you know, uh refurbished and
(11:59):
uh you know, restored. Uh, we're going to start trying
to release some of those things, you know, and and
then the two albums with Bruce Hornsby and beginning to
tour with uh, you know him touring with.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
Kentucky Thunder really is what it was.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
We didn't real tour with his man, but he he
had that piano every night and it was it was
just so great and tearing him work these solos out
play play breakneck speed on the piano as fast as
the boys were playing on guitar and mandolin and the
(12:34):
fiddle and banjo.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
I mean it was.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
It was some real musicianship there. So those records are
still out so people can still find those if they
want to find the Skag's Hornsby stuff.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
Now we'll let you go on this one too. I
want to say our happy early Thanksgiving to you and
the beautiful life and the entire Skags family, and of
course happy early Christmas, Happy holidays for you guys. What
are the plans in the Skag's household for these holidays?
Coming to Ricky?
Speaker 3 (12:59):
Tell you we got so many Christmas shows that we're
working uh this uh in December, it's uh, it'll be
it'll be we'll be exhausted at the end of it.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
But you know, I don't know. Uh, Luke traveled with
my son, and Luke traveled a whole.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
Lot this year out on the road, doing dates with
with people, setting in and then also stun a lot
of producing and stuff like that, you know.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
And a lot of mixing and stuff.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
From his house and over North Carolina, North Carolina. I'm
sure Molly's want to be home for Christmas. We may
have to wait and go over to see Luke and
the family.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
I think they're going.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
To stay in North Carolina for for for Christmas this year.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
That that's not officially been been said.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
So we're just going to try to catch our breath
and uh we start start rehearsals in early January to
go back on the road for twenty five. So it
looks like a great year. I think of us two well.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
No doubt, one of the greatest of all time to
do it. Ricky appreciate the time here, sharing some time
on the backstage. Pass again powered by the Sports Guys
podcast dot com, and of course, best of luck with
the Christmas Tour. You can check it out at Rickysgaggs
dot com. In December twenty second coming to the Rhyman
Auditorium there in beautiful Nashville, Tennessee. Hey, we appreciate the time, Ricky,
and the best of luck. Happy holidays to you and
the family and looking forward to another strong twenty twenty five.
(14:25):
We appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
Thank you, Brandon. Great to be with you, Buddy, you.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Got it, the great Ricky Skaggs here on KKTC Troupe
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Speaker 1 (14:43):
Com, exclusively at KKTC True Country ninety nine point nine
in Tas, New Mexico.
And welcome inside the backstage pass. Always a busy day here,
full of shows here kk t C True Country ninety
nine point nine and of course over there WSM, the
home of the grand old Ipry Brandon Morel Here as
we're presented by our friends at the Caaden Gordon Show
dot com Today's best country mix, and pleased to be
joined by one of the legends, one of the greatest
of all time to lace it up and with the
microphone a mandolin. He's done it all, the great Ricky
(00:21):
Skaggs joining us here on the backstage pass. Ricky, how
you doing greatest of all time?
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Oh well, I appreciate that. Thank you.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Always good to talk to you, Brandon. And yeah, we're
excited about coming back to the Rhymen for our Christmas show.
You know we uh we all we used to only
get to play the ryman once a year with our
Bluegrass Knights, you know, in the usually July, I guess
and but the last few years we've been doing the
(00:54):
Ricky Skaks in Kentucky's hunderd Christmas shows there.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
We we used to do Skags family Christmas and uh and.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
Then half our band uh, you know, married or or
moved away so with our kids and they and moved
to North Carolina and uh Luke started a family and
we've got two grandsons and we're all excited about Christmas
this year with them, you know. And so anyway, life
is good. We've had a busy year, but we're we're
(01:22):
looking forward to to getting these Christmas shows done.
Speaker 1 (01:26):
You know, of all your achievements, I mean, the fifteen Grammys,
no doubt you've done all in this business too. When
you look back on the career and you have time
to reflect on just the illustrious career you've had. We
mentioned the goat things like that too. But when you
look back on all the achievements and the awards, which
one are ones, Ricky, are you most proud of?
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Well?
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Kind of like kind of like which one of your
kids do you like? You know, people will say which
it's your favorite?
Speaker 2 (01:52):
You know, And.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
You know, I got to say, Grammys are great, and
a lot of people have them. There's a lot of
people that don't, you know, but I mean there's there's
a lot of a lot of musicians and artists that
that have Grammys, and and uh but I guess the
(02:15):
National Medal of Arts from President from President Trump back
in I think there's.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
Two thousand eighteen, maybe seventeen.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
Or eighteen that was that was pretty special. Me and
Toby Keith got you know, got medals together, you know,
uh that year and uh, I don't know, that's it's
just a very special award. And uh, you know, of course,
I mean, you know, Communic Hall of Fame was a
(02:48):
big deal, and and Blue Recipes Call of Fame and
those kinds of things are they're great, and uh, I
guess not as not as many people in you know,
in those circles as there are Grammys going around, but anyway,
they're you know, they're they're all great.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
I mean, I don't I'm thankful for all of them.
It's just.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
You know, when you get seventy years old, like me,
you know, you kind of start to look back over
your life and over your achievements.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
And that kind of thing.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
And and I'm not sure that there's anything that I
really wanted to.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
Do that I haven't done. I mean, I'm sure there's
there's stuff to do, you know. Uh, we had a
great year this year, did a.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
Lot of shows all over the country. I had great crowds,
and you know, some really stinky buses, but we had
you know, we had great, great crowds and the band
just played their hearts out all year long. And and
uh so it's just been a great year, you know. Uh,
(03:58):
mister Buck, my father in law, you know, he went
into work care this year, and and that was sad.
He lived with us for six years and and uh
and we did me and shared did the best we could,
you know, to you know, take care of him here,
but finally got to a place where we just we
just needed more help than what we were really able
(04:20):
to do. And so he's pretty happy, you know, where
he's at. And and uh we go see him and
and doesn't always know us, you know, but uh, his
his eyes will sparkle up a little bit. I think
there's a knowing inside you know, what memory he has left.
I think I think he you know, he probably couldn't
call our names necessarily, but uh, he certainly knows when
(04:42):
we're around we love on him. And and uh it's
you think about it a lot during these holiday times,
you know, with with Christmas coming up and Thanksgiving and stuff,
so you know, it's uh, it'll be a little different
this year, for sure.
Speaker 1 (04:56):
Hey talk to me about, you know, just the industry
being healthy right now, with a lot of the New
York traditional music staying around. You grew up obviously in
that era too, with bluegrass and country in the nineties,
country and eighties and seeing just everything and how it's
changed so much. But those tunes such as Highway forty
Blues and Honey Open that Door, and I wouldn't change
you if I could, and of course just country Boy
and all those things, Uh don't cheat in our hometown.
(05:17):
Talk about just how that music has really just evolved
over the years with the changing of the guard kind
of in the music industry, with streaming taken over. But
those songs really, for you have really stood the test
of time, Ricky.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Well, they truly have.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
I don't know, maybe not at that somebody don't shout
out country Boy or Honey.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Open that Door.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
You know, Heartbroke was a big hit, and Highway forty Blues,
and of course we do Uncle Pen and uh and
Highway forty Blues, and you know, put three other songs
that we've had had number one hit song and people,
you know, they really a PLoud remember them, you know,
(06:02):
But yeah, it's it's great to hear them on you know,
on bluegrass radio or or or you know, Willi's Roadhouse
or something like that. You know, it's so good to
good to still hear them out there here that people
you know, still want to hear them, you know, and
so we're we're thankful for all that. It's it's really great.
I do agree with you that that, you know, roots
(06:25):
music just ain't going away. Okay, it just ain't going away.
I mean new country, newer country, the newest country.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
All that stuff.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
You know, it can just be newest as it is,
and it's but there's something about the history of country
that we all still love and the roots. And I
meet all these young guys that are selling out arenas
and stuff like that that I've never even heard their name,
never even met and met him. You know, they'll come
(06:59):
to the opera and they'll come you know, backstage, and
and they're humble and they you know, they just they
still they listen to my music, you know, growing up.
And is at the mandolin that you played, you know,
or is that the guitar that you played live in London?
You know, I love that Purple Taly, you know, And
so it's uh, it's just great, you know, to be
(07:22):
seventy years old and still still be current, you know
in a way and irrelevant, yes, maybe so. But I'm
just having a great time getting to play. I'm healthy,
thank God, you know, and and so I'm I'm really
enjoying my life.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
I really am. It's great. You know.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
We've lost a lot of the greats in the in
the business recently too, and one of them. I talked
to Willamley Goldan at Sunday Morning Country there during the
CMA week in Nashville for the big big event there,
and Joe bonsel And passed away not too long after
that too. At the same time, I wanted to get
your thoughts just on uh, you know what he meant
to the country music industry. Obviously a Hall of Famer
in his own right, and fifty years of touring with
the Oakreage Boys, and just what Joe was just a
(08:03):
fine tenor and just a great member for country music
and a great ambassador for the Oakreage Boys and so
many other things out there.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
He really was everything you said, go, you know, just
what a what a dear precious friend, you know, and
a lover of music, you know, and he loved bluegrass,
and he was so glad when I came came back
from country music, you know, a career that I had
(08:32):
for fifteen years, and started playing bluegrass again, you know,
and we took over the cage. You know, everybody, most
of the backstage people would would remember what the cage was.
And now it's now that's where where the Opry staff
band goes and has a break. It's like a break
(08:54):
bron now. But at the time, you know, it was
a storage cage and we would you know, we open
that place up and uh, you know and get back
in there and rehearse, like we might have a guitar
player that that we were looking to hire.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
And the only time we could, you know.
Speaker 3 (09:12):
We could rehearse a little bit with him, you know,
was it was back there in the cage. So you know,
it's got play hass. Before he joined my band, the
first show he played was the Opry, So, uh, we've
had a lot of people uh that that.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
That was their first show with us.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
Was walking out on the stage at the Opry and
you can imagine, you know, what they were feeling.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
But but what.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
I loved about it, we'd be back there just wearing
it out.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
You know, and Joe Bonsel was was such a fan
of the band. Joe. He loved we was calling band Joey,
you know.
Speaker 3 (09:45):
And uh he loved Joe and learned to learn to play,
you know. But when Jim Mills was in my band,
you know, uh, back in those early days, he would
come back there and just stare at Jim playing and
just be mes maras you know.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
And so he was. He was a great He was
like a lightning rod for fun, you know.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
He just loved people and he was he was the
biggest fan of the Oakridge Boys ever, you know, and
just such a cheerleader on stage and off, you know.
Speaker 2 (10:19):
So we miss him, but he's not missing us where
he is.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
Where he is, no doubt, in heaven with the Lord
and in a better place than we are right now.
And someday we'll joining that heavenly kingdom. I want to
ask you about this. I know you've got to go
here in a second, but when you look back at
all the great collaborations that you've done in your career, Ricky,
is there one or two that kind of stand out
the most and maybe separate themselves from the others. I
know you've done a lot both male and female artists too.
But I wanted to kind of get your perspective on
(10:42):
just a great collaborations and how important that is to
the industry even today.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
Well, I've loved to get to work for sharing, you know,
my wife. You know, we we did a record together.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
We did we had we had to end of the
year in nineteen eighty six was left hand.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
Every get better than this and uh but we we
were on separate labels at the time, and so we
never really got to do a whole.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Record together, you know, and uh but when.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
When it starts Skag's family, uh, you know, we were
able to do a record on our label and so
hearts like ours and that was so much fun.
Speaker 2 (11:21):
And getting to see.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
Her really work in the studio as as you know,
a production uh you.
Speaker 2 (11:28):
Know, collaborate collaborator with me, was was just so much fun.
And uh so I.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
Loved that we loved the Cooter flight skagsh thing that
we did was ry Hooter and Whits. You know, man,
that was some great, great music. And we have tons
of live shows recorded. And at some point my studio
gets finished being really uh you know, uh refurbished and
(11:59):
uh you know, restored. Uh, we're going to start trying
to release some of those things, you know, and and
then the two albums with Bruce Hornsby and beginning to
tour with uh, you know him touring with.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
Kentucky Thunder really is what it was.
Speaker 3 (12:14):
We didn't real tour with his man, but he he
had that piano every night and it was it was
just so great and tearing him work these solos out
play play breakneck speed on the piano as fast as
the boys were playing on guitar and mandolin and the
(12:34):
fiddle and banjo.
Speaker 2 (12:35):
I mean it was.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
It was some real musicianship there. So those records are
still out so people can still find those if they
want to find the Skag's Hornsby stuff.
Speaker 1 (12:46):
Now we'll let you go on this one too. I
want to say our happy early Thanksgiving to you and
the beautiful life and the entire Skags family, and of
course happy early Christmas, Happy holidays for you guys. What
are the plans in the Skag's household for these holidays?
Coming to Ricky?
Speaker 3 (12:59):
Tell you we got so many Christmas shows that we're
working uh this uh in December, it's uh, it'll be
it'll be we'll be exhausted at the end of it.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
But you know, I don't know. Uh, Luke traveled with
my son, and Luke traveled a whole.
Speaker 3 (13:17):
Lot this year out on the road, doing dates with
with people, setting in and then also stun a lot
of producing and stuff like that, you know.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
And a lot of mixing and stuff.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
From his house and over North Carolina, North Carolina. I'm
sure Molly's want to be home for Christmas. We may
have to wait and go over to see Luke and
the family.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
I think they're going.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
To stay in North Carolina for for for Christmas this year.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
That that's not officially been been said.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
So we're just going to try to catch our breath
and uh we start start rehearsals in early January to
go back on the road for twenty five. So it
looks like a great year. I think of us two well.
Speaker 1 (14:04):
No doubt, one of the greatest of all time to
do it. Ricky appreciate the time here, sharing some time
on the backstage. Pass again powered by the Sports Guys
podcast dot com, and of course, best of luck with
the Christmas Tour. You can check it out at Rickysgaggs
dot com. In December twenty second coming to the Rhyman
Auditorium there in beautiful Nashville, Tennessee. Hey, we appreciate the time, Ricky,
and the best of luck. Happy holidays to you and
the family and looking forward to another strong twenty twenty five.
(14:25):
We appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
Thank you, Brandon. Great to be with you, Buddy, you.
Speaker 1 (14:29):
Got it, the great Ricky Skaggs here on KKTC Troupe
Country ninety nine point nine and our friends at WSM
the home of the Grand ol Ipree more to come.
Stay tuned.
Speaker 3 (14:36):
Hey, this is Court Seal recording artist Joe Nichols, and
you're listening to the backstage past powered by the Sportsgas
podcast dot
Speaker 1 (14:43):
Com, exclusively at KKTC True Country ninety nine point nine
in Tas, New Mexico.
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