Solo: Songs My Dad Loved

Performer: Ricky Skaggs
Engineer: Brent King
Producer: Ricky Skaggs
Distributor: Select-O-Hits

Notes: Personnel: Ricky Skaggs (acoustic guitar, resonator guitar, mandocello, mandolin, fiddle, piano, percussion). Audio Mixer: Brent King. Photographers: Erick Anderson; Erick Anderson . Arranger: Ricky Skaggs. Up to this point in his lengthy career, multi-instrumentalist and Grammy Award-winner Ricky Skaggs has done it all. From country to bluegrass to gospel, Skaggs has found success in every style he's set his heart to. SOLO: SONGS MY DAD LOVED finds the singer/songwriter in tribute mode. Skaggs credits his father for helping him fall in love with music, thus these 13 tracks were lovingly recorded as homage to Hobert Skaggs. Ricky played every single instrument on the acoustic collection and sang every note; there are no outside musicians or vocal guests anywhere to be found. The Kentucky native has never sounded better in his career than he does here, from the haunting instrumentation and vocals of "City That Lies Foursquare" to the lightning-fast fretting and fingering on "Calloway," one of three instrumental tracks on the disc, Skaggs sounds totally in his element. Standout tracks include Fred Rose's "Foggy River," Albert Brumley's "This World Is Not My Home," and "God Holds the Future in His Hands," a traditional number that sounds as if it was penned with Skaggs' voice in mind. Few artists in any genre could pull of an album like this, but Skaggs makes it look and sound easy.

Billboard (p.28) - "[A]n intimate, fly-on-the-wall field recording. Such instrumentals as 'Colonel Prentiss,' 'Pickin' in Caroline' and 'Calloway' give Skaggs room to show off his multitracked chops..."

With a thorough knowledge of bluegrass and vintage country music, Ricky Skaggs helped bring back a sense of tradition and history to that scene during the 1980s. Skaggs has lent his guitar, mandolin, and fiddle talents--as well as his high-lonesome voice--to a host of country music greats including Johnny Cash, the Stanley Brothers, and Emmylou Harris, and has also proven to be a successful solo artist despite a penchant for the less commercial threads of the genre. After being dropped by Atlantic Records in the early '90s, Skaggs started the Skaggs Family label to release his own albums and nurture the careers of other traditionally minded country artists.

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