The Dr. Ward Bond Show

TG Sheppard and his wife Kelly Lang talk about their new duet album, Chemistry. 

TG Sheppard has always had a steadfast dedication to entertainment, and has made him one of the most popular live performers in country music for the last 40 years.

With 21 #1 hit songs, his live concerts are packed full of his chart-topping tunes like “Last Cheater’s Waltz,” “I Loved ‘Em Every One,” “Party Time” and “Do You Wanna Go To Heaven.”

Kelly Lang is a singer/songwriter and grew up in country music. As a songwriter, Kelly has a stellar career with her songs being recorded by artists such as Ricky Skaggs, Lorrie Morgan, The Oak Ridge Boys, Crystal Gayle, George Jones, Jerry Lee Lewis, and her husband TG Sheppard, just to name a few.

Let’s welcome one of the most popular guests on my show and what I call a superstar country music couple that knows how to make the world go around, TG Sheppard and Kelly Lang!

#countrymusic #duets #TGSheppard #KellyLang #Chemistry #music #countrymusicradio #countryradio #popmusic #lovesongs

After 35 years, McBride & the Ride is still one of the most beloved country music groups.

Their first three albums — Burnin' Up the Road, the gold-certified Sacred Ground, and Hurry Sundown, released in 1991, 1992, and 1993 are still full of timeless country music.

These albums also produced several hits on the Billboard country charts, including the Top 5 hits

Sacred Ground, Going Out of My Mind, Just One Night, and Love on the Loose, Heart on the Run.

Terry McBride has had quite a fruitful career, writing major hits for Brooks & Dunn, Reba McEntire, Cody Johnson and others. He toured with Brooks & Dunn through most of their biggest years playing bass and writing songs.

Ray Herndon has been Lyle Lovett’s lead guitarist since 1985 and has had songs cut by Kenny Chesney, Lee Greenwood, Linda Davis and more.

Billy Thomas moved to Nashville from Los Angeles in 1987 and immediately started working with Vince Gill along with many other country stars (Emmylou Harris, Patty Loveless, Steve Wariner & Earl Scruggs). He’s been Vince’s drummer on the road and in the studio ever since, adding background vocals to his many hits.

But I’m very excited and I’m trying to keep from Going Out of My Mind, so let’s welcome the smoothest harmonies in country and celebrating their 35th anniversary, the one and the only McBride and the Ride to the show!

#mcbrideandtheride #sacredground #amarillo #countrymusic #countrymusicradio #countryradio #newmusic #newalbum #newrelease #music #guitar #bassguitar #drums #musictrio

Melissa Huray has dedicated the last two decades to helping people with addictions find freedom.

Radically delivered by the Lord Jesus 20 years ago, she is a masters level addiction counselor with degrees in communications and exercise physiology. Her many writings have appeared in local magazines, Steve Bannon’s War Room forum, and in Charisma Media publications. She is also the executive director for the Lindell Recovery Network.

Prior to entering the field of addiction recovery, Melissa was an on-air radio personality and Emmy award winning news reporter and anchor.

But at the time, she was a television news reporter by day, blackout drunk by night – no one suspected that capable and competent Melissa Huray needed alcohol to survive. In spite of her public persona, the squeaky clean girl from small-town Minnesota spent years carousing seedy bars – shockingly drunk with no hope of remembering anything the next day.

With surprising candor and raw emotion, her new book, Blackout to Blessing – How the Perfect Love of Jesus Saved Me From the Highway to Hell invites the reader into Melissa’s journey through childhood dysfunction, the fleeting relief of alcohol and empty relationships, and the dreadful daily grind familiar to the functional addict.

#alcoholism #addiction #addictionawareness #counseling #faith #jesus #inspiration #motivational #melissahuray #highwaytohell #blackout 

My guest today is Dr. Ming Wang, who attended both Harvard Medical School and MIT. Today he is a world-class eye surgeon, celebrated phil-an-thro-pist, and community activist.

He is the founding director of the internationally known Wang Vision Institute in Nashville, TN, which provides free-of-charge sight restoration surgeries for patients who otherwise would never have the opportunity to receive them.

To date, Dr. Wang has performed more than 55,000 eye procedures in over 55 countries worldwide. He is also the co-founder of the Common Ground Network based in Nashville, TN.

We are here to talk about the new movie, SIGHT, starring Greg Kinnear and Terry Chen, follows the inspiring true story of Ming Wang, an impoverished Chinese prodigy who flees Communist China to become a pioneering eye surgeon in America. When tasked with restoring the sight of an orphan who was blinded by her step mother, he must confront the trauma of living through the violent uprising in his youth, the Cultural Revolution.

#eyesurgeon #drmingwang #thesightmovie #sightmovie #eyecare #visioncare #cataracts #eyesight #film #movie #cinema #wangvisioninstitute #amnioticcontactlens #health #wellness

Rick Caballo, a true Renaissance man, excelling in various creative fields including music, art, photography, design and fashion. His diverse skill set and boundless creativity make him a sought-after figure in the industry.

Rick’s musical journey has taken him across the world and beyond his musical talent, he is a talented visual artist renowned for his rock star portraits, such as Steven Tyler, Keith Richards, Willie Nelson and Bono.

Design USA Magazine awarded Rick with two awards when he was named one of 2018’s People to Watch and earned the magazine’s award for the best brand identity-logo that he created for Steven Tyler’s solo brand, Loving Mary.

In 2015, Rick and his partner Melissa Core launched Dead Horse Branding, a comprehensive creative management company. Combining Rick's artistic direction with Melissa's marketing prowess, Dead Horse Branding offers a range of services, from graphic design to brand management.

Rick's art direction played a pivotal role in the creation of the award-winning coffee table book, "Elvis: Strait to Jesus," for legendary music producer Tony Brown. His involvement in documenting the history of modern country music showcases his ability to transcend traditional boundaries and create impactful projects.

#branding #brandawareness #brandstrategy #brandambassador #photography #artdesign #artdirector #visualarts #publicrelations #music #steventyler #aerosmith #marketing #marketingstrategy 

Some have called him an R&B version of George Jones, while others have called him a Country Otis Redding.

Whichever description you feel fits him best, there is no doubting that fact that when you hear the music of T. Graham Brown, you are hearing something that is very special.

With over 15 studio albums under his belt, T. Graham Brown has charted more than 35 singles on Billboard, Cash Box and Gospel charts since 1986. You know his hit songs, “I Tell It Like It Used to Be,” “Hell and High Water,” “Wine Into Water,” and “Darlene.”

He also hosts LIVE WIRE with T. Graham Brown, airing monthly on SiriusXM Prime Country Channel 58.

He has appeared on the Grand Ole Opry stage over 300 times and just recently he was inducted into the Grand Ole Opry by Vince Gill.

He has a new album From Memphis to Muscle Shoals debuting in August, a series of duets with some of the biggest names in music, Dwight Yoakam, Sam Moore, Sammy Hagar, Tanya Tucker, Wyonna and Zach Williams to name a few.

#countrymusic #countrymusicradio #countryradio #memphis #muscleshoals #memphistomuscleshoals #newalbum #duets #newmusic #newrelease #tgrahambrown

Author Joel Selvin, a San Francisco Chronicle pop music critic for thirty-six years, is author of more than twenty books about pop music, including the definitive account of the Rolling Stones free concert at Altamont and the biography of songwriter Bert Berns that paved his way into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, as well as the No. 1 New York Times best-seller, Red: My Uncensored Life in Rock with Sammy Hagar.

Ladies and gentlemen, the subject of Joel Selvin’s latest book was raised in the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles and got his start as a professional drummer touring with the Everly Brothers in the mid-1960s.

Jim Gordon’s penchant for creative and astonishingly accurate musicianship earned him regular session work, joining the community retroactively referred to as The Wrecking Crew.

His supernatural intuition and perfect sense of time can be heard on more than 30 Top 10 singles including several #1 hits, such as the Beach Boys’ “Good Vibrations,” Carly Simon’s “You’re So Vain” and “I Got You Babe” by Sonny & Cher (he also supplied the literal beat for “The Beat Goes On” by the latter).

He has been immortalized on albums by George Harrison, John Lennon and the Byrds, among dozens of other household name music acts.

Gordon was notably the drummer for Derek and the Dominos and provided the piano coda for their evergreen anthem “Layla.”

Joel Selvin details how Gordon didn’t merely keep time, but he was also instrumental in shaping compositions; whether it was his Latin-influenced rhythms on “Rikki Don’t Lose That Number” by Steely Dan or his monumental drum break on the Incredible Bongo Band’s “Apache” (a staple of hip-hop from the genre’s inception, having been sampled on over 750 other records), he wasn’t just a player on hits, he made them hits.

If you love music history, then Drums & Demons: The Tragic Journey of Jim Gordon is a must read. Joel Selvin’s power of the pen makes live every page of Jim Gordon’s life and you learn in the midst of brilliant musicianship, the darkness of mental health issues like paranoid schizophrenia. 

#mentalhealth #mentalillness #schizophrenia #drummer #rockmusic #popmusic #ericclapton #georgeharrison #lindaronstadt #carlysimon #sonnyandcher #cher #beachboys #jamesbrown #jacksonbrowne #boneshowe #mikepost #musicrecording #popmusic 

In his commercial photography career, David photographed The Eagles’ Hotel California album cover, the Blues Brothers’ album covers and movie poster, and The Terminator movie poster.

Some of the artists for whom he photographed album covers are Aretha Franklin, Linda Rondstadt, James Taylor, James Brown, Bonnie Raitt, Ringo Starr, Tina Turner, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Lynyrd Skynyrd, The Doobie Brothers, The Steve Miller Band, and The Allman Brothers. How’s that for a star-studded line up?

He also photographed movie posters for Bill Murray’s Stripes, Richard Pryor Live on Sunset Strip, 9 To 5 with Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, and Dolly Parton, Fletch, and others.

David has a new book of photographs called Pictures of Time. This beautiful book looks at the connections, commonalities, similarities, and reflections of people, nature, and the living things around us, which is a major part of our discussion today.

#photography #photographer #photographytips #photograph #albumcovers #movieposters #cinema #rockmusic #popmusic #camera #nikon #canon #newbook #rodstewart #jamestaylor #theeagles #hotelcalifornia #tompetty #stevemillerband #theterminator #robinwilliams #richardpryor #chevychase #dollyparton #rockmusic #popmusic #lynyrdskynyrd #streetsurvivor 

The legendary entertainer Tony Orlando. He has achieved fifteen Top 40 hits, two Platinum albums, three Gold albums, and millions of copies sold. He won two American Music Awards and a People’s Choice Award for Best Male Entertainer.

He is best known for his Five #1 hit records: “Tie A Yellow Ribbon ‘Round The Ole Oak Tree,” “Knock Three Times,” “Candida,” “My Sweet Gypsy Rose” and “He Don’t Love You (Like I Love You).”

“Tie A Yellow Ribbon” was the #1 Billboard Song of the Year for 1973 and went on to become the theme song for Tony Orlando and an anthem for hope, reunion, and renewal in America.

He also has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame to commemorate his outstanding achievements in the entertainment industry. And outstanding they are!

Tony is finishing up on his Farewell Tour and to the delight of his countless fans, Tony will continue hosting his beloved hit radio program Saturday Nights with Tony Orlando on 77 WABC Music Radio, which airs in New York, and surrounding states.

We discuss his time with Clive Davis, the creation of Dawn, the hit songs, his friendship with Freddie Prinze, the phenomenon of 'Tie a Yellow Ribbon Around the Old Oak Tree' and more!  

#entertainment #entertainer #entertainmentnews #celebritynews #celebrity #tonyorlando #freddieprinze #robinwilliams #clivedavis #hitsongs #hitsong #USO #bobhope #thetonightshow #varietyshow #tvshow 

CEO and co-founder of Dead Horse Branding, Melissa Core. She heads an award-winning PR and Marketing firm in Nashville, Tennessee.

As legendary music producer Tony Brown would call her, "The Velvet Glove", a strong punch delivered softly.

Melissa Core Caballo is anything but ordinary. Her passion is branding, but she has an extremely broad knowledge of every niche of the industry. She is a female entrepreneur who doesn’t take "no" for an answer.

As a CEO and former model for large brands herself such as Harley Davidson, Victoria's Secret, Toyota, to name a few, her unique skill set ensures client success, strong sales delivery, and unforgettable branding.

Melissa's passion for entrepreneurship mixed with her branding expertise led her to launch Dead Horse Branding in 2013. In under 5 years, she took a startup company making $0 to a multi-million dollar company.

Through Dead Horse Branding, Melissa is responsible for managing all of the brand’s requirements, from the initial strategic plan, through to all of the project's needs and implemented services.

In 2020, Dead Horse Branding made the TOP 10 best Marketing and Publicity firms in Nashville, TN, adding another addition to their strong coat of armor.

#publicrelations #pragnecy #branding #brandmanager #brandmanagement #career #publicist #publicists #brand #brandambassador #brandingexpert #corporateidentity #rockbands #recordingartists #cinema #film #productplacement #DH7