''My Father's Son'' is the eleventh studio album by American country music artist Ricky Skaggs. It was released on September 10, 1991, via

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. The albums includes the singles " Life's Too Long (To Live Like This)", " Same Ol' Love" and "From the Word Love".

Track listing

Personnel

Adapted from liner notes. * Brian Ahern -

acoustic guitar An acoustic guitar is a musical instrument in the string family. When a string is plucked its vibration is transmitted from the bridge, resonating throughout the top of the guitar. It is also transmitted to the side and back of the instrument, ...

(track 8) * Eddie Bayers -

drums A drum kit (also called a drum set, trap set, or simply drums) is a collection of drums, cymbals, and other Percussion instrument, auxiliary percussion instruments set up to be played by one person. The player (drummer) typically holds a pair o ...

(tracks 3-5, 8, 9) * Barry Beckett -

organ Organ may refer to: Biology * Organ (biology), a part of an organism Musical instruments * Organ (music), a family of keyboard musical instruments characterized by sustained tone ** Electronic organ, an electronic keyboard instrument ** Hammond ...

(tracks 1, 10) *

Sam Bush Charles Samuel Bush (born April 13, 1952) is an American mandolinist who is considered an originator of progressive bluegrass music. In 2020, he was inducted into the International Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame as a member of New Grass Revival. ...

mandolin A mandolin ( it, mandolino ; literally "small mandola") is a stringed musical instrument in the lute family and is generally plucked with a pick. It most commonly has four courses of doubled strings tuned in unison, thus giving a total of 8 ...

(track 7) *Terry Crisp -

steel guitar A steel guitar ( haw, kīkākila) is any guitar played while moving a steel bar or similar hard object against plucked strings. The bar itself is called a "steel" and is the source of the name "steel guitar". The instrument differs from a conve ...

(tracks 2, 5, 8, 10) * Jerry Douglas -

dobro Dobro is an American brand of resonator guitars, currently owned by Gibson and manufactured by its subsidiary Epiphone. The term "dobro" is also used as a generic term for any wood-bodied, single-cone resonator guitar. The Dobro was originally ...

(track 7) *

Stuart Duncan Stuart Duncan (born April 14, 1964) is an American bluegrass musician who plays the fiddle, mandolin, guitar, and banjo. Life Duncan was born in Quantico, Virginia, and raised in Santa Paula, California, where he played in the school band. He ...

fiddle A fiddle is a bowed string musical instrument, most often a violin. It is a colloquial term for the violin, used by players in all genres, including classical music. Although in many cases violins and fiddles are essentially synonymous, th ...

(tracks 7, 9) *Keith Edwards - drums (track 2) *John G. Elliott - piano (track 12), string arrangements (track 12) *

Bela Fleck Bela may refer to: Places Asia *Bela Pratapgarh, a town in Pratapgarh District, Uttar Pradesh, India *Bela, a small village near Bhandara, Maharashtra, India *Bela, another name for the biblical city Zoara * Bela, Dang, in Nepal * Bela, Janakpur, ...

banjo The banjo is a stringed instrument with a thin membrane stretched over a frame or cavity to form a resonator. The membrane is typically circular, and usually made of plastic, or occasionally animal skin. Early forms of the instrument were fashi ...

(track 7) * Paul Franklin - steel guitar (tracks 3, 4) *Steve Gibson - electric guitar (track 5) * Bobby Hicks - fiddle (track 2) *

David Hungate William David Hungate (born August 5, 1948) is an American bass guitarist noted as a member of the Los Angeles pop-rock band Toto from 1976 to 1982 and again from 2014 to 2015, and the son of judge William L. Hungate. Along with most of his T ...

- bass guitar (tracks 1, 3, 4, 7-10) * Roy Huskey Jr. - slap bass (tracks 1-3, 9) * John Barlow Jarvis -

keyboards Keyboard may refer to: Text input * Keyboard, part of a typewriter * Computer keyboard ** Keyboard layout, the software control of computer keyboards and their mapping ** Keyboard technology, computer keyboard hardware and firmware Music * Musi ...

(track 7), piano (tracks 1, 3, 5, 8-10) * Waylon Jennings - duet vocals (track 2) *Lenny LeBlanc - background vocals (track 10) *Keith Little - acoustic guitar (track 2) *

Larrie Londin Ralph Gallant (October 15, 1943 − August 24, 1992), better known by the stage name Larrie Londin, was an American drummer and session musician. According to journalist James Byron Fox, "If not the best known, Larrie is one of the most listene ...

- drums (tracks 1, 7, 10) *

The Nashville String Machine Nashville String Machine is a musical collective comprising session musicians, based in Nashville, Tennessee, United States. Members of the group have been credited on records dating from 1972 to the present, although the group was formally formed ...

- strings (track 12) * Brent Mason - electric guitar (tracks 1, 3, 4, 7-10) * Mac McAnally - acoustic guitar (tracks 1-5, 7-10), electric guitar (track 3), keyboards (track 5), background vocals (tracks 3, 4, 6-8) * Steve Nathan - keyboards (track 4), organ (track 2) *Tom Roady - percussion (track 4) *

Mike Rojas Miguel Angel Rojas (born April 17, 1963) is an American former professional baseball player and current baseball manager. He played in Minor league baseball as a catcher from 1983 to 1984 for the Oakland Athletics and Toronto Blue Jays organizat ...

- piano (track 2) * Jason Sellers - bass guitar (track 2) *Keith Sewell - acoustic guitar (track 4), background vocals (track 4) * Ricky Skaggs - acoustic guitar (tracks 6, 11), acoustic guitar solo (track 1), banjo (track 6), Earthwood bass (track 6), electric guitar (tracks 2, 3), electric guitar solo (track 3), fiddle (track 6), mandolin (tracks 1, 6, 8, 9), lead vocals (all tracks), harmony vocals (track 2), background vocals (tracks 1, 3-10) * Leland Sklar - bass guitar (tracks 5, 11) *Bobby Taylor - oboe (track 12) * Sharon White - duet vocals (track 8), background vocals (track 8)

Chart performance

References

{{Ricky Skaggs 1991 albums Ricky Skaggs albums Albums produced by Brian Ahern (producer) Albums produced by Mac McAnally Albums produced by Ricky Skaggs Epic Records albums