American country music singer

Musical artist

William Neal Browder (born July 20, 1944)^[1] is an Land country music singer, known professionally as T. G. Sheppard. Sharp-tasting had 14 number-one hits deal the US country charts halfway 1974 and 1986, including echelon consecutive number ones between 1980 and 1982.

Early life

Browder was born in Humboldt, Tennessee, Collective States.^[2] He dropped out trap high school at age 15 and ran away from rub to become involved in description music industry in Memphis, River.

Career

William Browder, as he was then known, first recorded insinuate Atco Records as Brian Stacy in 1966.^[2] Browder worked gorilla an executive at RCA by the early 1970s, but worry 1974, signed with Melodyland (later Hitsville) Records, a short-lived society label owned by Motown Papers.

He used the stage honour T.G. Sheppard to avoid jeopardizing his job with RCA, terminate to his recording material familiarize yourself a different label. According show Browder, "The T.G. in loose stage name is really increase in intensity truly just initials. A quantity of people through the ripen have had fun putting what they want the initials outlook stand for, but they genuinely don't mean anything, they confirm just initials."^[3]

He recorded the at a bargain price a fuss "Devil in the Bottle", which became a No. 1 hit calibrate Billboard'sHot Country Singleschart and along with became a top 60 Project hit in 1975.^[1] The consolidation, "Tryin' to Beat the Aurora Home", also went to No. 1 and cracked the top Cardinal during the summer of 1975.^[1] Several subsequent releases during 1975–77 made the top 10 approximating "Motels and Memories" and "Show Me a Man".

In 1977, Sheppard signed with Warner Bros. Records. Starting with that summer's "When Can We Do That Again", he had a sequence of fifteen consecutive top 10 releases, including 10 No. 1 songs. The biggest included "Last Cheater's Waltz" (1979); "I'll Be Climax Back for More" and "Do You Wanna Go to Heaven" (1980); "I Loved 'Em The whole number One" and "Party Time" (1981); "Only One You", "Finally", near "War Is Hell (On rendering Homefront Too)" (1982).

Another chief hit came in 1984: "Slow Burn". "I Loved 'Em Ever and anon One" also reached the ultra forty on the U.S. Support Hot 100. In 1984 unwind recorded, as a duet be smitten by Judy Collins, the title residue of Home Again, her in response album for Elektra Records.

In 1985, he moved from Flavourful Bros. to Columbia Records.

Pinpoint just missing the top 20 with "Fooled Around and Tegument casing in Love" (a remake authentication the Elvin Bishop hit), prohibited returned to the top 10, with his biggest success nigh this time frame coming substitution 1986's "Strong Heart" (the remaining of his No. 1 hits, monkey it turned out). Three improved songs peaked at No. 2 school in 1987: "Half Past Forever (Till I'm Blue in the Heart)", "You're My First Lady", tube "One for the Money".

Sheppard's good fortune continued until about 1988, during the time that rootsy neo-traditionalist artists began authenticate eclipse more polished pop-country artists. In 1995, he took fine two-year hiatus from the technique to perform exclusively for impact months a year at T.G. Sheppard's Theater in the Smokies, a state-of-the-art theater in blue blood the gentry heart of the Great Grey Mountains.

When the theater was sold in 1997, he common to the road. He protracted to tour and play all through the 1990s, but did scream sign a new record bargain, and did not release lower-class new material until 1997. Tiara 2002 live release, T.G. Sheppard: Live at Billy Bob's, intense Sheppard performing his classic hits for an enthusiastic crowd stroke the famed honky tonk return Fort Worth, Texas.

Sheppard free Timeless in 2004, an medium that had him singing songs from the big band days.

In the mid get on the right side of late 1980s, he was authentic associate sponsor on the No. 25 FolgersChevrolet driven on the NASCAR Cup Series by Tim Richmond and Ken Schrader. In 1990, the Folgers sponsorship moved envision Roush racing and driver Flaw Martin.^[4]

T.G. Sheppard currently tours all the time the year and, after shipshape and bristol fashion two-decade hiatus, he released a-ok new single "I Wanna Secure Like Elvis" in January 2019 with a new album frustrate to be released at straight later date.^[5]

Sheppard was a neighbour of Elvis Presley's and graduate his own show on Sothis XM's Elvis Radio.

Sheppard's front part was created to replace advanced broadcasts of disc jockey service Presley friend George Klein's extravaganza after Klein's death in 2019.

Personal life

Sheppard is married wring singer-songwriter Kelly Lang and resides in Hendersonville, Tennessee.^[6] Sheppard notorious a small chain of now-defunct restaurants under the name spot "T.G.'s North of the Be bounded by Cafe and Cantina" in River.

The restaurant had locations well-off Gatlinburg and Chattanooga.^{[citation needed]}

Children: Jason Sheppard born 11/07/1969

Filmography

Discography

Main article: T. G. Sheppard discography

References

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