History
McBride & the Ride was created in 1989 when Tony Brown, then the executive vice president of MCA Records, decided to establish a new country music band in order to compete with Alabama, who he thought was falling out of favor with country radio. Guitarist Ray Herndon (born July 14, 1960) was serving as a backing musician for Lyle Lovett (who was then recording on MCA himself) when Brown suggested that Herndon join lead vocalist Terry McBride (born September 16, 1958) — whom Herndon did not yet know — in the new band that Brown had planned. McBride, a musician since childhood, had worked as a backing musician for his father, Dale McBride, and later for Delbert McClinton and Rosie Flores. At the Fan Fair in Nashville, Tennessee, Brown introduced McBride and Herndon to drummer Billy Thomas (born October 24, 1953), who had previously played for Emmylou Harris and Mac Davis, and the band's lineup was in place.
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