Ricky Skaggs
is writing his autobiography with Eddie Dean, the author who co-penned the
prize-winning
Man of Constant Sorrow: My Life and Times with bluegrass legend
Ralph
Stanley. Skaggs tells
CMT.com the memoir is set to be published this fall by HarperCollins. Skaggs got his start
as a professional musician playing in Stanley's Clinch Mountain Boys band when he 15 years old. After four years with Stanley,
he went on to perform with the Country Gentlemen,
J.D. Crowe & the New South and
Emmylou
Harris' Hot Band before moving into a solo country music career in the early 1980s and membership in the Grand Ole Opry
in 1982. Last year, Dean and Stanley shared the International Bluegrass Music Association's print media person of the year
award for
Man of Constant Sorrow. Skaggs is also working on a project for Time-Life's record division.
