Ricky Skaggs - Country and Bluegrass Musician

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Ricky Skaggs  ( born July 18 1954 in Cordell , Kentucky ) is an American Country - and bluegrass musician.
  

Beginnings

Ever since he began at the age of five years, mandolin playing, Skaggs was considered a musical prodigy. At a Bill Monroe concert of the six-year-old was encouraged by heckling from the audience at a gig the next big star. Gradually, he learned other instruments. To enable him to public appearances, his parents founded a family band, the Skaggs Family.
 
Although he briefly for the Beatles and Rolling Stones inspired, was his true love of traditional country music . He felt especially for bluegrass drawn.  His models were Bill Monroe, Buck Owens , Ralph Stanley and George Jones .  At a talent competition, he met the like-minded Keith Whitley . In 1970 she received the opportunity to step in at a concert for the late Ralph Stanley.The big star was impressed by their performance and commitment to the five-year-old Skaggs shorthand for his bluegrass group, the Clinch Mountain Boys.

Career

Skaggs spent two years with Ralph Stanley. In 1973, he hired at the prestigious Country Gentlemen on. Even here he remained for about two years. Meanwhile, his old comrade, Keith Whitley had made a career. Together with him, he recorded two duet albums. After a brief stint with the bluegrass band JDCrowe and the New South 1976, he founded his own band, the Bone Creek.
 
Emmylou Harris was aware of the talented young musicians and he repeatedly tried to win their backing.Only in 1977, after the departure of Rodney Crowell , agreed Skaggs.Skaggs soon exerted a strong influence on Harris, whose music is clearly oriented towards this bluegrass.
 
In 1980, Skaggs on a small label on a bluegrass album. His reputation in the country scene was now so well established that he was offered the prestigious Epic label in 1981 a contract that granted him far-reaching musical freedom. Contrary to the prevailing trend, he played with Waitin 'For The Sun To Shine an album, which was based heavily on traditional country. And he had, contrary to expectations of success. The album sold over 500,000 copies and went gold. Two singles reached No. 1 on the country charts. Ricky Skaggs in 1982 with the prestigious CMA Awards Country Artist of the Year award. In the same year he joined the Grand Ole Opry .

Neo-traditionalism in Country music 

Skaggs was in the early 1980s to the triggers of a general return to the original values ​​of country music and the first new traditionalists . His successes were in the eighties through. In1985 as he finished with the old Bill Monroe song Uncle Pen first placNumerous prizes and awards, including nine Grammy Awards were recognition of his achievement.
 
In 1991 he teamed up with the rising stars Vince Gill and Steve Wariner together and founded the Nashville Cats. Two years later he started his own radio show called 'Simple Life', which was so popular that they are of more than 400 stations, including some was taken over Europe. From the mid-nineties were the sales of his records to clear.

Discography 

• 1981 - Waitin 'For The Sun To Shine
• 1982 - Family & Friends 1982 - Family & Friends
• 1982 - Highways & Heartaches 1982 - Highways & Heartaches
• 1983 - Exile 1983 - Exile
• 1984 - Country Boy 1984 - Country Boy
• 1985 - Favorite Country Songs 1985 - Favorite Country Songs
• 1985 - Live In London 1985 - Live In London
• 1986 - Love's Gonna Get Ya! 1986 - Love's Gonna Get Ya!
• 1987 - I Love Country 1987 - I Love Country
• 1988 - Comin' Home To Stay 1988 - Comin 'Home To Stay
• 1989 - Kentucky Thunder 1989 - Kentucky Thunder
• 1991 - My Fathers Son 1991 - My Fathers Son
• 1995 - Solid Ground 1995 - Solid Ground
• 1997 - Bluegrass Rules! 1997 - Bluegrass Rules!
• 1999 - Ancient Tones 1999 - Ancient Tones
• 1999 - Soldier Of The Cross 1999 - Soldier Of The Cross
• 2000 - Songs Of Bill Monroe 2000 - Songs Of Bill Monroe
• 2001- History Of The Future 2001 - History Of The Future
• 2003 - Live at the Charleston Music Hall 2003 - Live at the Charleston Music Hall
• 2004 - Brand New Strings 2004 - Brand New Strings
• 2005 - A Skaggs Family Christmas 2005 - A Skaggs Family Christmas
• 2006 - Instrumentals 2006 - Instrumentals
• 2007 - Salt Of The Earth (Ricky Skaggs & The Whites) 2007 - Salt Of The Earth (Ricky Skaggs & The Whites)
• 2007 - Ricky Skaggs & Bruce Hornsby 2007 - Ricky Skaggs & Bruce Hornsby
• 2008 - Honoring The Fathers Of Bluegrass - Tribute To 1946 And 1947 2008 - Honoring The Fathers Of Bluegrass - Tribute To 1946 And 1947
• 2008 - Ricky Skaggs - The High Notes 2008 - Ricky Skaggs - The High Notes

Biography of Rick Nelson

Born May 8, 1940
Died 31 December 1985 (at age 45 years) 

Rick Nelson is an American singer of rock and country music, which began under the name of Ricky Nelson. He was born May 8, 1940 and died December 31, 1985.

He began to perform on stage in a family of musicians and singers. He flies on his own in 1957 with a cover of Fats Domino I'm Walkin. It has long been a competitor in Elvis Presley, attractive, middle-class white America. His career took a long time compared to the idols of his time.

He also tried to cinema by appearing in several films including the famous Howard Hawks Rio Bravo with John Wayne and Dean Martin.

Discs and compilations continue to be reprinted regularly, as in 2002, the album Teenage Idol, namesake of his song fetish, in 1987, he was elected to the Rockabilly Hall of Fame, two years after his plane crash.

Johnny Cash - Biography 1932 – 2003

February 1932, the son of Ray and Carrie Cash in Kingsland, Arkansas, was born. In childhood and youth he "JR" was created; only in the military, he used the name John. When he was three years old, his father took over a farm in Dyess, Arkansas, and went with his family.His two-year older brother Jack was born in May 1944 with fourteen killed in an accident with a circular saw life. Johnny had five other siblings: Roy, Louise, Reba, Joanne and Tommy.

At eighteen, Johnny Cash and reported to the Air Force was launched in 1951 as a radio operator listening to a unit at Landsberg am Lech.

There, Johnny Cash bought his first guitar and formed a band, which he called in a modification of the title of an Army newspaper ("Bavarian Mountain Country"), "Landsberg Barbarians". Even as a schoolboy he had composed songs and they even played with guitar accompaniment.

After his military service, Johnny Cash married on 7  August 1954 in Memphis, Tennessee, two years younger, Vivian Liberto (1934 - 2005), had met in July 1951, three weeks before his departure to Europe, They had four daughters: Rosanne (born 1955), Kathleen (* 1956), Cindy (* 1959) und Tara (* 1961). Cindy (* 1959) and Tara (* 1961). To earn a livelihood for the family, Johnny Cash walked from door to door and tried to sell household appliances.  In the evening he met with the two auto mechanics and amateur musicians Luther Perkins (1928 - 1968), and Marshall Grant (born 1928) in the clubs of the city. "The Tennessee Two" accompanied him on guitar and on bass. Here the guitarist Luther Perkins developed a sound ("boom-chicka-boom"), has become legendary.  In 1955 she played in front of the producer Sam Phillips, and he took a record with them on ("Cry! Cry! Cry!")In August they were the opening act for Elvis Presley (1935 - 1977) on, and in December came the album "Folsom Prison Blues" out on the country charts, reached the 4th place. First place was captured on the country charts in 1956 with Johnny Cash "I Walk the Line".

In the same year met Johnny Cash at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville for three years older country singer June Carter (1929 - 2003), which he had admired as a student on the radio. June was one of the AP Carter (1891 - 1960), his wife Sara Carter (1899 - 1979) and his sister Maybelle Carter (1909 - 1978) - June's mother - in the twenties, founded Country Vocal group ("The Carter Family") . She stood in her eleventh birthday on stage, first with the family, and since 1943 alone. From 1952 to 1956 she was married to country musician Carl Smith (born 1927) since 1955 and had a daughter - Rebecca Carlene Smith - from which, under the name Carlene Carter should also be a famous country singer.

To cope with the psychological burden of the successful career that has also impacted his marriage, Johnny Cash swallowed his own words in 1957 while touring with Faron Young (1932 - 1996) and Ferlin Husky (born 1927) his first amphetamine tablet ("Speed" ) . He began to drink and took turns amphetamines and barbiturates.

In1958 Johnny Cash, his wife Vivian and their daughters Rosanne and Kathleen moved from Tennessee to California.

Two years later, the drummer WAS ("Fluke") Netherlands (* 1935), the companion volume to "The Tennessee Three."

June Carter, who since 1957 with the police and stock-car driver Edwin ("Rip") Nix was married in 1958 and brought a second daughter was born - Rozanna Lea (1958 - 2003) - Johnny Cash since 1961, accompanied on his touring. The Merle Kilgore (1934 - 2005) and written her song "Ring of Fire" by Johnny Cash on 25  Recorded in March 1963, became a worldwide success and one of the most famous songs of country music.  It's about addiction and forbidden love.



Johnny Cash and June Carter loved each other, but both were still married to other partners for the time being. AAt a closer connection June Carter also liked because of Johnny Cash's drug addiction do not think at first. Am 4. October 1965 he became after entry from Mexico at the airport in El Paso, Texas, arrested temporarily, because in his guitar case more than a thousand amphetamine tablets were found. After Vivian in 1966/67 had divorced him, Johnny Cash lived temporarily in 1967 with the similarly drug-addicted country singer Waylon Jennings (1937 - 2002) together. Then he bought a house on Old Hickory Lake in Nashville. But in October, he hid in the Nickajack Cave near Chattanooga and wanted to die. After a withdrawal, in which he stood to the side, June Carter,  November 1967 in the High School of Hendersonville for the first time in more than ten years, a concert, with no alcohol or drugs to stand.

During a concert on  February 1968 in Ontario June Carter took to the stage to  to marry him by Johnny Cash. Meanwhile, both were divorced. March they were married in Franklin, Kentucky. . Their son John Carter Cash was born on 3  March 1970.

June 1969, ABC aired during prime time from the first episode of a weekly television show with Johnny Cash.  Because of the success was "The Johnny Cash Show" two years in the program.

 To stand out from other country musicians Johnny Cash was in the seventies to just dressed in black. "Man in Black" was then also the title of his autobiography published in 1975. (Under the title "Man in White" in 1986 appeared the only novel by Johnny Cash.)

In 1980 Johnny Cash recorded in the Country Music Hall of Fame.

Because he now once addicted to drugs had become, Johnny Cash was being treated from December 1983 to January 1984 for six weeks at the Betty Ford Center in Rancho Mirage, California.

 In May 1985, joined Johnny Cash and other musicians who are always pleasing to the expectant country-pop music in Nashville resented together and called themselves "The Highwaymen". With the album "Highwayman" Johnny Cash was once again merged with its sensational success.


 In the rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame Johnny Cash recorded in 1992.

Ricky Skaggs - Bluegrass Breakdown