Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder - Soldier Of The Cross the Concert [2003, Country, Bluegrass, DVD5]

This was filmed/recorded before a packed crowd at the Gibson Bluegrass Cafe in Nashville, TN, songs
form Ricky Scaggs grammy award winning album "Soldier of the Cross".musician Ricky Skaggs and his band
Kentucky Thunder perform a set of 11 songs before a packed house. Among the songs in Ricky Skaggs and
Kentucky Thunder: Soldier of the Cross are &"Jesus Is the Missing Peace,"&"Lead Me to the Rock,"
and &"Hallelujah, I'm Ready to Go." This is a great Gospel Bluegrass Concert DVD!!!
~ Matthew Tobey, All Movie Guide
Wikipedia
Richard Lee "Ricky" Skaggs (born July 18, 1954, in Cordell, Kentucky) is a country music, bluegrass
& gospel singer, musician, producer, and composer. He primarily plays mandolin; however, he also plays
fiddle, guitar, and banjo. Ricky Skaggs started playing music after he was given a mandolin by his father,
Hobert. At age 5, he played mandolin on stage with Bill Monroe. At age 6, he appeared on television's Martha
White country music variety show, playing with Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs. He also wanted to audition for
the Grand Ole Opry at that time, but was told he was too young. In his mid-teens, Skaggs met a fellow teen
prodigy, guitarist Keith Whitley, and the two started playing together with Whitley's banjoist brother Dwight
on radio shows. By 1970, they had earned a spot opening for Ralph Stanley and Skaggs and Keith Whitley were
thereafter invited to join Stanley's band, the Clinch Mountain Boys. Skaggs later joined J. D. Crowe's New
South. For a few years, Skaggs was a member of Emmylou Harris's Hot Band. He wrote the arrangements for
Harris's 1980 bluegrass-roots album, Roses in the Snow. In addition to arranging for Harris, Skaggs
sang harmony and played mandolin and fiddle.
Amazon.com
It's possible that at this point in his life, bandleader Ricky Skaggs has done more to promote old
-fashioned bluegrass gospel than practically anyone else alive, other than his old mentor, Dr. Ralph
Stanley. This concert DVD captures Skaggs and his band, Kentucky Thunder, in fine form, performing top
-flight versions of many standards of the genre and several new tunes that he has contributed in recent
years. The "high lonesome" vocal harmony tunes are the sublime, although the picking is pretty darn hot,
as well. In addition to his various hotshot bandmembers -- multi-instrumentalists Jim Roll, Andy Leftwich,
Skaggs also plays host to several soulful guest performers, including his wife, Sharon White and her family,
The Whites, who can throw on a mean harmony or two themselves, if they put their minds to it. The songs are
interspersed with commentary by Ricky, about his faith, family and friends. In general, this material shouldn't
too noxious to secular-minded bluegrass fans, since the performances themselves are both skillfully filmed and
spine-tinglingy resonant. If you are of a resolutely agnostic or atheistic bent, though, then best to leave
this one be... Ricky's born again envangelicism will probably get on your nerves. Anyone who likes Ricky
on either his religious or musical merits, though, will love this: it's quite a nice concert!

Title: Ricky Skaggs - Soldier of the Cross
Size: 2.79 Gb ( 2 921 248,00 KBytes ) - DVD-5
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