He later became a fixture on the bluegrass festival circuit and resumed his recording career, primarily album releases for small labels including Rich-R-Tone. In 1974 Skinner moved to Nashville, Tennessee, where he continued to write songs and play festivals until his death from a heart attack five years later. In 2003 Bear Family Records issued "Doin' My Time", a five-CD boxed set collecting all of Skinner's surviving Red Barn, Radio Artist, Capitol, Decca and Mercury recordings, plus a sixth disc of Skinner reading from his unfinished autobiography.