Nominations include Entertainer and Legend/Pioneer Award
Nashville, TN (September 1, 2011) – The ICM Faith, Family & Country Awards Top 5 finalists were announced yesterday, and Ricky Skaggs secured nominations in five categories: Legend/Pioneer Award, Entertainer, Inspirational Country Song (“Someday Soon”), Musician and Inspirational Bluegrass Artist. For Skaggs, who has previously won several ICM Awards, this year’s nominations are particularly sweet. “I’m very grateful to the ICM for all the nominations,” says Skaggs. “When I started playin’ and singin’, they didn’t have award shows like they do now, so I’ve never been driven to win them. I just love the music and I love the fact that God uses music to speak to people’s hearts. That’s what I’m in it for, to be a messenger of His Love.” The 17th Annual Inspirational Country Music Awards will be held on Friday, October 28 at Nashville’s Schermerhorn Symphony Center.
Co-produced by Glasmire and John Albani (Steve Azar, Monty Holmes, Randy Boudreaux), “Going Home” was inspired by a conversation with a friend of Mark’s who was retiring after a decades-long career in the U.S. Marine Corps. Mark’s vocal is clean and clear yet emotive, and he captures, in lyric and in melody, the uncertainty and hope felt upon returning home after a lifetime away. The past meets the present, and a glimpse of the future is found in the song’s opening lines: