Ricky Skaggs Receives High School Diploma
Dr. Robbie Fletcher, superintendent of Lawrence County Schools in Kentucky, presented Skaggs with the honor.by TV News Desk
As the Class of 2021 gears up to graduate, Country Music Hall of Fame member Ricky Skaggs has a major reveal: nearly 50 years after leaving high school, he s finally received his diploma.
On June 1, 2020, his alma mater, Lawrence County High School in Louisa, Kentucky, bestowed upon him an honorary high school diploma for all of his work in music. The surprise presentation happened as Skaggs, along with fellow alumni singer-songwriters Larry Cordle, Tyler Childers and others, were participating in a virtual high school graduation ceremony for the Lawrence County High School 2020 graduating class.
Ricky Skaggs Receives High School Diploma
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Billy Blue Records Announces New Focus Track from Carolina Blue Raining In Roanoke
The song is the third single from their highly successful project that reached #1.by TV News Desk
Billy Blue Records announces the release of a new focus track from Carolina Blue s chart-topping album, Take Me Back. Written by the band s co-founder Bobby Powell, Raining In Roanoke is the third single from their highly successful project that reached #1 on the National Bluegrass Survey s Top 15 Albums chart in January and February. The idea for this song came to me early one morning while driving through Roanoke, Virginia, on the way home from a weekend out on the road, explains Powell. It was pouring rain and the rest of the band was sleeping. The line popped into my head, It s raining in Roanoke and I m leaving here this morning, so I woke Tim (Jones) up in the shotgun seat to write it down for me. The whole song came out like that. Line after line, he d type them into his phone and befo
January 7, 2021
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Today is Friday, Jan. 8, the eighth day of 2021. There are 357 days left in the year.
Today’s Highlight in History:
On Jan. 8, 1998, Ramzi Yousef (RAHM’-zee YOO’-sef), the mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, was sentenced in New York to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
On this date:
In 1815, the last major engagement of the War of 1812 came to an end as U.S. forces defeated the British in the Battle of New Orleans, not having gotten word of the signing of a peace treaty.
In 1918, President Woodrow Wilson outlined his Fourteen Points for lasting peace after World War I. Mississippi became the first state to ratify the 18th Amendment to the Constitution, which established Prohibition.