Ward has been a member of Sugar Ray and the Bluetones for over 40 years and has had concurrent spells with Ronnie Earl and the Broadcasters.
Ward has played in the support band for Hubert Sumlin, Junior Wells, Buddy Guy, Memphis Slim, James Cotton, Lowell Fulson, Otis Rush, Big Mama Thornton, Big Walter Horton, J.
[4] Ward found himself with a split existence as the band, with usually a similar line-up, also performed as Ronnie Earl and the Broadcasters.
[2] Over the years, Ward wrote a number of song that appeared on albums such as "Hope Valley" on Knockout (1989); "Burial Season" and "From Now on This Morning (11 September)", both from Sugar Ray and the Bluetones featuring Monster Mike Welch (2003); plus "(I'm Gonna Break Into) Folsom Prison" on Hands Across the Table (2005); and "It's Never as Bad as It Looks" on Living Tear to Tear (2014).
Sugar Ray left the Bluenotes for a while in 1997, and created the opportunity for Ward to record albums with Eric Bibb, Rory Block and Maria Muldaur, plus more albums with Ronnie Earl, and in 1987 he appeared in the Hubert Sumlin documentary, Living The Blues.
In the same year, Ward was nominated in the 'Instrumentalist - Bass' category at the Blues Music Awards,[6] in which he was the recipient in both 2018 and 2020.