Year 1990 Instrumentalist of the Year 1996 Vocal Collaboration of the Year (with Vince Gill & Patty Loveless) Other awards and accomplishments National Medal of Arts, awarded by President Donald Trump in 2021 Inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame on March 27, 2018, in the Modern Era category R&R Best New Artist Billboard magazine's Artist of the Year Musician Magazine- Voted One of the Top 100 Guitarists of the Century Artist of the Decade- Listeners' Poll Award BBC Radio 2 CMT's 40 Greatest Men of Country Music rank No. 37 in 2003. Judge for the 2nd annual Independent Music Awards ACM's Cliffie Stone Pioneer Award, 2012 Gospel Music Hall of Fame inductee, 2012 Bluegrass Star Award, presented by the Bluegrass Heritage Foundation of Dallas, Texas (2017). Honorary Doctorate of Humanities from Eastern Kentucky University – 2005 Honorary Doctorate of Music from Berklee College of Music – received in March 2008 Plaque on Nashville's StarWalk, 1987 References External links 1997 Interview with Ricky Skaggs Ricky Skaggs Biography Interview with Ricky Skaggs NAMM Oral History Library (2010) 1954 births 20th-century American guitarists 20th-century American singers 21st-century American singers American bluegrass mandolinists American country guitarists American country singer-songwriters American male guitarists American male singer-songwriters American mandolinists American multi-instrumentalists Bluegrass musicians from Kentucky Country Music Hall of Fame inductees Country musicians from Kentucky Epic Records artists Grammy Award winners Grand Ole Opry members Guitarists from Kentucky Kentucky Thunder members Living people Musicians from Appalachia New South (band) members People from Lawrence County, Kentucky Rebel Records artists Rounder Records artists Songwriters from Kentucky The Country Gentlemen members United States National Medal of Arts recipients