Can You Believe This?  

It sounds a bit off the wall. I think this is a bit of vcreative journalism.

Should I be impressed....I'm afraid I've never heard of Ricky Scaggs, who is he? Someone very famous?? At least you know for sure there is a connection. I don't know if I believe the yarns about Brad And Angelina.

I'm not saying you should be impressed because all of us are related somehow someway to everybody famous or not. But it is exciting for me anyhow to have a family member who is a famous singer(atleast from where I am) Ricky Skaggs started playing music after he was given a mandolin by his father. At age 6, he played mandolin on stage with Bill Monroe. At age 7, he appeared on television's Martha White country music variety show, playing with Lester Flatt and Earl Scruggs. He also wanted to audition for the Grand Ole Opry at that time, but was told he was too young.In his mid-teens, Skaggs met a fellow teen prodigy, fiddler Keith Whitley, and the two started playing together with Whitley's banjoist brother Dwight on radio shows. By 1970, they had earned a spot opening for Ralph Stanley and Skaggs and Keith Whitley were thereafter invited to join Stanley's band, the Clinch Mountain Boys
Skaggs later joined J. D. Crowe's New South. For a few years, Skaggs was a member of Emmylou Harris's Hot Band. He wrote the arrangements for Harris's 1980 bluegrass-roots album, Roses in the Snow. In addition to arranging for Harris, Skaggs sang harmony and played mandolin and fiddle. Move to Nashville
Skaggs moved to Nashville, Tennessee in 1980 and was signed to Epic Records, where he produced his debut album, Waitin' For The Sun to Shine. The album produced four successful singles, including two number one hits with "Cryin' My Heart Out Over You" and "I Don't Care" in 1982, songs that sparked the birth of the neotraditional country movement.
Skaggs' lifelong dream of joining the Grand Ole Opry finally became reality in 1982. He racked up 12 number one hits and six top 10 singles during the 1980s. Skaggs picked up dozens of industry awards in the ensuing years, including four Grammy Awards and eight awards from the Country Music Association including Entertainer of the Year in 1985.
Neotraditionalism and experimentation
Into the 1990s and 2000s, Skaggs has embraced his bluegrass roots, as well as experimenting with new sounds. With his band, Kentucky Thunder, he is a perennial winner of Grammy Awards and International Bluegrass Music Association for best bluegrass album.
"I always want to try to promote the old music, as well as trying to grow, and be a pioneer too," Skaggs once said.
In 2000, he shared the stage with the now defunct jam band, On March 20, 2007, Skaggs released an album with rock musician Bruce Hornsby.
In 2007, Skaggs is slated to release an album he recorded with The Whites on his Skaggs Family Records label
I love his songs also and my favorite is "Honey(open that door)" Here is a link If you want to look it will show some of his albums and songs and other stuff.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricky_Skaggs
But not trying to impress anyone.

I think it's a load of rubbish. It's just too neat for them to each be "related" to Clinton and Obama. It would be difficult to prove or disprove.

Yeah LOL :)

It was an MSN article. I gave the credit in the opening. I'd say you can believe it if you want to. I think it's a bit of sensationalism. Brad and Angelina being the flavour of the month and all.

It's very weird and far fetched IMO.

I think in this case we'd have to go backwards, sideways, over, under, around the corner, over the fence, up the wall, over the top and down the garden path.

lol that sounds about right sweety! xxxx

There ya go.....and I always thought Stalin was a Russian Commy. As for your election, if what folks think is true, someone possibly IS related to Osama, if we "go back far enough". Bloody scary.

Stalin is probably turning over in his grave to be called German, crazy or otherwise.

And who in their right mind would be silly enough to prove or disprove it?

I'm with you on this one mate...