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Big Mon: The Songs of Bill Monroe: Release date: August 29, 2000; Label: Skaggs Family; Various Artists 42 — — 34 History of the Future: Release date: September 11, 2001; Label: Skaggs Family; Kentucky Thunder 35 — 10 — Ricky Skaggs and Friends Sing the Songs of Bill Monroe: Release date: February 26, 2002; Label: Lyric Street Records ...
Rickie Lee Skaggs [1] [2] (born July 18, 1954), [6] known professionally as Ricky Skaggs, is an American neotraditional country and bluegrass singer, musician, producer, and composer. He primarily plays mandolin ; however, he also plays fiddle , guitar, mandocaster , and banjo .
"Dueling Banjos" is a bluegrass composition by Arthur "Guitar Boogie" Smith. The song was composed in 1954 [ 2 ] by Smith as a banjo instrumental he called "Feudin' Banjos"; it contained riffs from Smith, recorded in 1955 playing a four-string plectrum banjo and accompanied by five-string bluegrass banjo player Don Reno .
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Kentucky Thunder, or Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder, is the band that plays with American country and bluegrass singer Ricky Skaggs. Many members of the band have won numerous awards. Many members of the band have won numerous awards.
The song was also nominated for the 1972 Golden Globe Awards in the Best Original Song category. [6] "Dueling Banjos" won the 1974 Grammy Award for Best Country Instrumental Performance. [1] In 1973, the album Dueling Banjos by Eric Weissberg and Steve Mandell peaked at No. 1 on the Billboard 200. [7]
Brand New Strings is an album by Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder, released through Skaggs Family Records on September 28, 2004. [1] In 2005, the album won the group the Grammy Award for Best Bluegrass Album .
Dueling Banjos is a 1973 soundtrack album to the film Deliverance by American banjoists Marshall Brickman, Steve Mandell, and Eric Weissberg released by Warner Bros. Records and made up of the title track by Mandell and Weissberg and a repackaged version of the 1963 album New Dimensions in Banjo and Bluegrass by Brickman and Weissberg.