Kentucky mandolinist Don Rigsby fills the lengthy liner notes for his latest album, Doctor’s Orders: A Tribute to Ralph Stanley (Rebel), with a detailed account of his first encounter with the ...

Band of Ruhks is Kenny Smith, Ronnie Bowman and Don Rigsby. Classic Entertainment It’s been quite some time since Ronnie Bowman, Kenny Smith and Don Rigsby have been this Lonesome. As the foundation ...

Don Rigsby’s father shaped his son’s future when he bought a Stanley Brothers tape at a flea market in Kentucky. Rigsby was only 3. “The Stanley Brothers’ ‘Little Maggie’ turned my head,” Rigsby said.

These are heady times for bluegrass musician Don Rigsby. For the past eight years, the Eastern Kentucky native has been the director of the Kentucky Center for Traditional Music program at Morehead ...

When you talk bluegrass music’s best traditional tenor singers, the name Don Rigsby often ends up on the top of the heap. Rigsby, the ruby-throated Elliott County, Ky., resident brings his band, ...