''Live in London'' is the first live album by American

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artist

Ricky Skaggs Rickie Lee Skaggs (born July 18, 1954), known professionally as Ricky Skaggs, is an American neotraditional country and bluegrass singer, musician, producer, and composer. He primarily plays mandolin; however, he also plays fiddle, guitar, ...

. It was released in 1985 via Epic Records. The album peaked at number 1 on the '' Billboard''

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chart.

Track listing

Personnel

"Live In London" Personnel at allmusic
/ref> * Ricky Skaggs – lead vocals,

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, acoustic guitar, mandolin,

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, fiddle * Bruce Bouton – dobro, electric guitar, pedal steel guitar * Richard Dennison – electric guitar, acoustic guitar, background vocals *

Bobby Hicks Bobby Hicks (born July 21, 1933) is a Grammy Awardbr>winningAmerican bluegrass fiddler and a professional musician with more than fifty years of experience. Career Hicks was born in Newton, North Carolina and learned to play the fiddle befor ...

– banjo, fiddle *

Lou Reid Lou Reid Pyrtle (born September 13, 1954 in Union Grove, North Carolina) is an American bluegrass singer, band leader, and multi-instrumentalist. Biography Early life Reid grew up on a tobacco farm in Moore Springs, North Carolina. His father ...

– banjo, fiddle, acoustic guitar, background vocals * Gary "Bud" Smith –

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* Jesse Chambers –

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Martin Parker Martin Parker (c. 1600 – c. 1656) was an English ballad writer, and probably a London tavern-keeper. Life About 1625 he seems to have begun publishing ballads, a large number of which bearing his signature or his initials, M.P., are preserved ...

– drums,

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* Elvis Costello – guitar and vocals on "Don't Get Above Your Raisin"

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

References

{{Ricky Skaggs 1985 live albums Ricky Skaggs albums Epic Records live albums Albums produced by Ricky Skaggs