Ricky Skaggs was just five years old when he first got his hands on a mandolin. Many boys in small town Kentucky were playing the guitar or the fiddle, but not the mandolin. With a rich and varied career in bluegrass and country, Skaggs is known for that masterful mandolin sound.
He performs in Durham tomorrow night as part of the . Host Frank Stasio talks with Skaggs about his origins and his most recent autobiography, "" (It Books, 2013).
