Highways & Heartaches (Ricky Skaggs album)

{{Infobox album

| name = Highways & Heartaches

| type = studio

| artist = Ricky Skaggs

| cover = HighwaysHeartaches.jpg

| alt =

| released = {{start date|1982}}

| recorded =

| venue =

| studio = Audio Media Recorders (Nashville, Tennessee)

| genre = Country

| length = 36:55

| label = Epic

| producer = Ricky Skaggs

| prev_title = Family & Friends

| prev_year = 1982

| next_title = Don't Cheat in Our Hometown

| next_year = 1983

| misc = {{Singles

| name = Highways & Heartaches

| type = Studio

| single1 = Heartbroke

| single1date = July 1982

| single2 = I Wouldn't Change You If I Could

| single2date = January 17, 1983

| single3 = Highway 40 Blues

| single3date = March 1983

| single4 = You've Got a Lover

| single4date = July 1983

}}

}}

{{Album ratings

| rev1 = Allmusic

| rev1Score = {{Rating|4.5|5}}{{cite web |last=Campbell |first=Al |title=Highways & Heartaches review |url={{AllMusic|class=album|id=highways--heartaches-r94040|pure_url=yes}} |work=Allmusic |accessdate=14 February 2011}}

}}

Highways & Heartaches is the fifth studio album by American country music artist Ricky Skaggs. It was released in 1982 via Epic Records. The album peaked at number 1 on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart.{{cite web |title=Highways & Heartaches Charts |url={{AllMusic|class=album|id=highways-heartaches-r94040/charts-awards|pure_url=yes}} |work=Allmusic |accessdate=14 February 2011}}

This album is cited in the 2023 book Highways and Heartaches: How Ricky Skaggs, Marty Stuart, and Children of the New South Saved the Soul of Country Music, by the American academic Michael Streissguth.{{cite web |title=Highways and Heartaches: How Ricky Skaggs... |url=https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/64000361-highways-and-heartaches |website=goodreads.com |publisher=Goodreads |access-date=11 March 2025}} The book covers the evolution of country music from the rural routes of 1970s Appalachia to the 1980s country music boom.