... a country drive to an unexpected dining pleasure
Farmhouse Cafe
... a country drive to an unexpected dining pleasure
· LUNCH · Homemade Soups, Salads and Garden Sandwiches
· DINNER · Steak · Salmon · Pork Chicken · Pasta R Garden and Fruit Salads Soups · Desserts Herbal Teas · Cool Drinks Beer & Wine
5171 Bean Blossom Road · Just 15 minutes from Nashville
A small, intimate restaurant with indoor and outdoor seating
Reservations Suggested · 812-988-2004 LUNCH: DAILY · 11 – 4 PM DINNER: TUESDAY – SATURDAY · 5 – 8 PM
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SKAGGS continued from 32 opener, seeing all these musicians that I’ d grown up listening to,” he recalls. The Bean Blossom Festival( now the Bill Monroe Memorial Festival) was where he finally met Monroe, and it’ s where his wife-to-be Sharon, of the bluegrass group the Whites, first saw Ricky perform.
He’ s been back several times since then, and even besides the Bill Monroe connection to southern Indiana, Ricky feels a connection here to his original home in Kentucky.“ The [ Ohio ] River’ s about the only difference, the people are much the same,” he relates.“ People have farms, raise their families, go to church. Just reallife America. We love playing Indiana because there’ s lots of like-minded people that come out to see us, and that love bluegrass, and gospel, and country.”
Now Ricky’ s playing for us again, this time at the Brown County Music Center on August 26. This tour features Kentucky Thunder, whom Ricky’ s played with for over twenty years. Although their lineup’ s changed over time, he promises that this iteration of the band is the best one yet.“ They’ re just really unbelievable,” he says.“ Just the highest quality players that I’ ve been around. I don’ t know anybody that’ s their equal. I’ m just so thankful.”( If you’ ve ever seen Ricky Skaggs play the mandolin, that kind of praise should cause your heart to skip a beat.)
The BCMC show promises to be as good a showcase of Ricky’ s music as ever— which should surprise no one. All the songs on this tour, which incorporate bluegrass, gospel, and country, are performed acoustically, with no amplifiers on stage.“ I let the band play a lot, because I came up out of a bluegrass band, where people took solos,” explains Ricky. Those familiar with his past work with Kentucky Thunder will recognize some of their bestknown instrumental numbers.“ But,” he teases,“ we also have quite a few new ones that we haven’ t recorded yet.” New songs or old, though,“ People are not gonna go away disappointed, I guarantee it,” he says.
For more information on Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky Thunder at the Brown County Music Center, please contact the box office at 812-988- 5323 or visit < browncountymusiccenter. com >. •
34 Our Brown County • July / August 2022