Bringing it all back home: Ricky Skaggs to play in Bantry
RICKY SKAGGS had it all, but it wasn’t enough. By the early 1990s the Kentucky songwriter stood tall as one of the most beloved figures in country — he’d notched up a string of number ones, his walls heaved with platinum discs. Rather than bringing satisfaction, however, success had imbued a deep restlessness in him.
“Country music was going in a different direction,” recalls Skaggs, 60. “You had people such as Garth Brooks coming through. I wasn’t excited about the way things were moving — my heart was calling me to deeper places, back to the mountains.”
