I started out primarily as a bluegrass mandolin player, an endeavor for which Olympian levels of flatpicking are often required to perform the melodies and solos you will hear from great mandolin ...

Garth Brooks inducts Ricky Skaggs into the Country Music Hall of Fame, but both get upstaged by Bill Monroe's mandolin when the priceless instrument is placed in Skaggs' hands to play Nancy Kruh ...