CMT Crossroads: Where country meets…weirdness.

I’m watching CMT and I see a Crossroads episode with Bruce Hornsby and Ricky Skaggs. I’ve never been much of a Ricky Skaggs fan, but I loved Bruce Hornsby and The Range back in the day. Anyhoo, Bruce and Ricky do this bluegrass cover of That’s Just the Way It Is, and I have to admit it was pretty good. A total reinterpretation of the song, and not a bad one either.

And so I go looking for it on YouTube and find this instead:

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCf9_lZ7o5U]

I don’t know whether to be amazed or horrified, y’all. I’ll never look at Ricky Skaggs as being a one-dimensional bluegrass artist again, but he ain’t Rick James, beeyotch!