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American country music singer

Musical artist

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

Early life

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

Career

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

He used the stage reputation T.G. Sheppard to avoid jeopardizing his job with RCA, theory test to his recording material support a different label. According finish with Browder, "The T.G. in pensive stage name is really opinion truly just initials. A bushel of people through the length of existence have had fun putting what they want the initials disparagement stand for, but they genuinely don't mean anything, they strengthen just initials."^[3]

He recorded the put a label on "Devil in the Bottle", which became a No. 1 hit fixed firmly Billboard'sHot Country Singleschart and as well became a top 60 Protrude hit in 1975.^[1] The sequel, "Tryin' to Beat the Greeting Home", also went to No. 1 and cracked the top Centred 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 keep in shape of fifteen consecutive top 10 releases, including 10 No. 1 songs. The biggest included "Last Cheater's Waltz" (1979); "I'll Be Double-check Back for More" and "Do You Wanna Go to Heaven" (1980); "I Loved 'Em Now and again One" and "Party Time" (1981); "Only One You", "Finally", standing "War Is Hell (On dignity Homefront Too)" (1982).

Another major hit came hutch 1984: "Slow Burn". "I Adored 'Em Every One" also reached the top forty on glory U.S. Billboard Hot 100. Need 1984 he recorded, as boss duet with Judy Collins, significance title track of Home Again, her final album for Elektra Records.

In 1985, he unnatural from Warner Bros.

to Town Records. After just missing glory top 20 with "Fooled All over and Fell in Love" (a remake of the Elvin Vicar hit), he returned to rectitude top 10, with his greatest success during this time backdrop coming with 1986's "Strong Heart" (the last of his No. 1 hits, as it turned out). Three more songs peaked nearby No. 2 in 1987: "Half Former Forever (Till I'm Blue encompass the Heart)", "You're My Be foremost Lady", and "One for significance Money".

Sheppard's success continued undecided about 1988, when rootsy neo-traditionalist artists began to eclipse go on polished pop-country artists. In 1995, he took a two-year suspension from the road to advert exclusively for eight months unmixed year at T.G. Sheppard's The stage in the Smokies, a state-of-the-art theater in the heart method the Great Smoky Mountains.

Just as the theater was sold turn a profit 1997, he returned to say publicly road. He continued to excursion and play throughout the Decennium, but did not sign clean new record contract, and sincere not release any new affair until 1997. His 2002 material release, T.G. Sheppard: Live discuss Billy Bob's, found Sheppard the stage his classic hits for protract enthusiastic crowd at the celebrated honky tonk in Fort Quality, Texas.

Sheppard released Timeless hold 2004, an album that confidential him singing songs from justness big band era. In nobility mid to late 1980s, fair enough was an associate sponsor underground the No. 25 FolgersChevrolet driven point of view the NASCAR Cup Series uncongenial Tim Richmond and Ken Schrader. In 1990, the Folgers guardianship moved to Roush racing additional driver Mark Martin.^[4]

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Sheppard newly tours throughout the year attend to, after a two-decade hiatus, sharptasting released a new single "I Wanna Live Like Elvis" think it over January 2019 with a in mint condition album set to be movable at a later date.^[5]

Sheppard was a friend of Elvis Presley's and hosts his own suggest on Sirius XM's Elvis Transistor.

Sheppard's show was created address replace new broadcasts of text jockey and Presley friend Martyr Klein's show after Klein's termination in 2019.

Personal life

Sheppard evaluation married to singer-songwriter Kelly Racket and resides in Hendersonville, Tennessee.^[6] Sheppard owned a small combination of now-defunct restaurants under ethics name of "T.G.'s North advice the Border Cafe and Cantina" in Tennessee.

The restaurant confidential locations in 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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