Dorothy Skaggs
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Dorothy Skaggs was an eastern Kentucky singer and songwriter who wrote “All I Ever Loved Was You,” a song that has been carried by a long line of traditional bluegrass acts. She was Ricky Skaggs’s mother, and sang with the family group that first put him on a stage.
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- Born Dorothy Mae Skaggs on February 10, 1928, in Cordell, Kentucky.
- Sang and wrote songs; her husband Hobert played guitar.
- She and Hobert performed as the Skaggs Family at churches and schools across eastern Kentucky, largely to showcase their young son’s playing and singing.
- Wrote “All I Ever Loved Was You,” recorded by Keith Whitley and Ricky Skaggs on Second Generation Bluegrass (1971).
- Ralph Stanley and the Clinch Mountain Boys cut it on Play Requests (1972), and Shenandoah and Blue Mafia recorded it later.
- Her husband died in 1996; she died on April 6, 2001.
