Amen brother. He’s a Tele Superman no doubt!

And so is Ricky!

You're so right. The combination of technical mastery and creativity in that 2nd solo is absolutely mind blowing. Incredible.

No doubt, both solos give me goosebumps every single time I watch this video.

There are so many things about these fantastic Ray solos. Just mentioning one, in the first solo, does anyone else wonder how in its very beginning, he forms a chord, then does a descending run during most of which his fingers don’t seem to be moving??? I see they do at the end of it, but the run is practically over by that time! Guitar work brilliant throughout!

Truly a master at his instrument. Wow. Just wow.

Help, sounds like some bald guy is raping a chicken with his guitar through some kind of digital Time Machine. Best sound ever

They sure as hell don't. They play the absolute drivel that they call "country music" nowadays(Minus Sturgill Simpson, and maybe 2 or 3 others who play actual country music and not the crap pop music they call "Country" these days(and the last 25 years or so tbh. It's ALL the ABSOLUTE DRIZZLING FUCKING SHITS.(To borrow a great saying/term from the wrestling business.) which is simply AWFUL pop music w/ an acoustic guitar and maybe a little bit of fiddle, or the mandolin. It's all SO depressingly bad, homogenized, oversaturated, over produced, cookie cutter, mass produced assembly line DRIVEL. Long live TRUE COUNTRY MUSIC. Jimmy Rogers, Hank, Waylon, Guy, Townes, George, Buddy, Bob Wills, Buck, to name ONLY A FEW absolute LEGENDS that're rolling over in their graves.

@@stephenjones1488 As a country station jock I'll tell ya...the artists you mentioned are classified as "Classic Country", what I play is "Todays Country", or "Progressive Country". Along with sprinklings of Classic. It is whats popular with our target demographic.

Yeah, but that was before he knew you capitalized every word in a sentence 😁 ( Just kidding, of course 😉)

Incredible, isn’t it? I have the good fortune to play with an authentic country guitar player. Sometimes I’ll nearly mess up from listening to him. It’s a superior approach to playing the guitar, in my humble bass-playing opinion.

Tiny Moore played electric mandolin and fiddle for Hag and the Strangers! I have always loved Ricky Skaggs! Real Country boys and girls! 💙

Mine too. Parents used to hold me up and dance to it. So good

Outstanding ! I did with my kids too, now my grandkids listen.

I'm 62 andcant get enuf

True that.

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You said it! Both he and Marty Stuart got their start in the biz as children. Both of them learned mandolin as their first instrument.

No kiddin'. Ray does the best electric guitar lead solo in country history here on his second solo in this live piece from the '70s. It's truly epic.

@@MrSophbeau Agreed! Bad ass!

@@MrSophbeau This is actually from 1981, not the seventies. But it is indeed truly epic!

@@MDavidG1 Thanks for the correction. In either decade, Mr Flacke delivers the country goods. Picker extraordinaire! Takes it to another level while keeping it country.....hard to do.

Anybody that don't like this can kiss My REBEL ass

@@mugsylucas4966 heck yeah i feel the same

Anybody don't like this, they just aint right. Plain and Simple. But I'm gonna pray for em anyway. They need help. 😅

Anybody that don't like this must just be eat up with their raisins.

Thank you so much I really appreciate

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What about 1985's "Country Boy"? (from the 1984 album of the same name) kzfaq.info/get/bejne/osWBm8imuc-cgWw.html He also did "Uncle Pen" (originally by Bill Monroe and His Blue Grass Boys) the year before (from 1983's Don't Cheat In Our Hometown)... kzfaq.info/get/bejne/edZ4a7qmnqrGmoE.html

This one's pretty good, but I like Country Boy better for pickin' :)

That’s some great pickin also. I just like what he does on that little electric guitar.

It's actually a 5 string solid body electric mandolin with a pull string device. When he pushes the neck down it pulls one of those strings up in pitch, like a pedal steel guitar. Lotta twang.

guitbanger1 Thanks! I don’t know much about types of mandolins or guitars, I thought it was a baby Fender. I just like the sound and his playing it.

Ricky's a hot rod fo sho!!

The Mandocaster!

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Hi dear,how are you doing,how is the weather treating you?

Hi dear,how are you doing,how is the weather treating you?

@Rickyskaggsofficial I am from Texas. You know my son Casey James. He took me backstage to meet you when you were in Dallas around 6-7 years ago. He first met you back stage at the Opry. (You were both playing that evening.) We both have been and will be life long fans. God bless you Ricky!

He is one of the best

Thank you so much dear, you seems to be a huge fan, where are you writing from

That’s hilarious!! 👍🏼🙂

Another fella said he thought he heard don’t eat a fuzzy raisin, which is solid advice..

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So tasty

Ray!

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Hello Annette,how are you doing?🌹🌹

Alive and well.

@@guitarman5560 Here's Ray today kzfaq.info/get/bejne/fr53gNSar9usg6M.html

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Yes; his name at birth was Rickie Lee Skaggs.

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It was a different era.

Its a Mandocaster, made by Fender..

Jeff McMurray it’s a custom built mandocaster lol. Made to look like a miniature telecaster but tuned like a mandolin and also has a string bender in it like a pedal steel would have but activated by the strap button. It was made by Joe Glaser in Nashville.

Its a GLASER... Joe Glaser built in Nashville

That's a 5 string electric mandolin

Here is an interview from a couple of days back: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/fr53gNSar9usg6M.html