Nashville, Tennessee
July 2003 - A Pictorial Journey
Ricky Skaggs, the Skaggs Family and Kentucky Thunder "Live at the Ryman"
This was nothing short of a dynamic acoustic setting...Ricky Skaggs with Kentucky Thunder "Live at the Ryman Auditorium".
I'd have to say that I haven't heard a tighter band perform at this level of "thunder". Wow! I love the smooth integration between band members..the vocal harmonies out sparkled a starry sky...the solos would have melted Antarctica...this musical journey from song to song transcended the history of acoustic music. Ricky's focus was on the mandolin...only once did he pick up the guitar...he's as powerful a mandolinist as he is a vocalist. His back-up ensemble only reinforced his rapid-fire monstrous Loar. The highlights of the evening included Ricky's very own family sitting in...Molly Skaggs frailed a lilting banjo tune that sounded as pure as a cool mountain stream. Ricky's son played an impressive Celtic fiddle. And, the duet between Ricky and Sharon Skaggs (formerly Sharon White) redefined the term soulful...Needless to say, the crowd was enthralled...the applause is still echoing in my ears. This is the story, and I'm sticking to it...Mickey (Don't ever miss an opportunity to see Ricky Skaggs, the Skaggs Family and Kentucky Thunder live)
Ricky Skaggs Live at the Ryman Auditorium July 2003 (shown below)
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A Ryman Auditorium Advertisement for "Bluegrass Nights" follows:
"Experience the best in bluegrass on the very stage where bluegrass was born.
The Ryman Auditorium, the Mother Church Of Country Music and the home of the Grand Ole Opry from 1943 to 1974, is sacred to the history of country music.
Especially important to the history of the Ryman is its significant role in the history of bluegrass music. Although Bill Monroe had been a member of the Grand Ole Opry since 1939, it wasn't until a Saturday night in December of 1945 when bluegrass music as we know it today was born when a twenty-one year old young man by the name of Earl Scruggs stepped up to the WSM microphone on the Ryman stage playing the five-string banjo with a three-finger roll. This was the final ingredient in what we now know as bluegrass music.
Although it wasn't known as bluegrass at the time, there was something very unique and special about this edition of Bill Monroe's Blue Grass Boys with Earl Scruggs which also included guitarist/lead singer Lester Flatt, fiddler Chubby Wise, and bass player Cedric Rainwater. Their weekly broadcasts on the Opry at the Ryman Auditorium over WSM, their Columbia recordings, and personal appearances through early 1948 provided the architectural ground work for all of bluegrass music.
The well documented careers of Lester Flatt & Earl Scruggs, Jim & Jesse, and the Osborne Brothers, all legendary bluegrass acts, also became Grand Ole Opry members in their own right on the Ryman Auditorium stage.
Also important are the virtually dozens of well known bluegrass musicians who came through the ranks of the aforementioned bands appearing on the Ryman stage."
- Text by Eddie Stubbs, 650 WSM Personality, Grand Ole Opry Announcer & Host of Bluegrass Night at the Ryman
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Thursday nights, June 19 through July 24 (6 shows total) at 7:30 pm
Individual tickets are only $20.50.
Bluegrass Passes are now available for only $100 for all six shows.
Call (615) 889-3060 to reserve your Bluegrass Pass today!
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