“Now Hear This Entertainment” is a weekly podcast featuring interviews with guests who are having success in entertainment – primarily music. A new episode has been delivered on-time, every week since February 2014. The show has gotten listeners from 163 countries around the world and is one of the top two percent most popular shows out of more than 3.2 million podcasts globally. “Now Hear This Entertainment” has had multiple placements in the iTunes Top Ten (Music category) and the show has received two honors and been nominated for three other awards. In late spring of 2021 it was in the "20 Best Entertainment Podcasts of 2021," as published by Welp Magazine.
Guests on NHTE have ranged from Roy Orbison, Jr. to the keyboard player for Aerosmith to the lead guitar player for Garth Brooks to the fiddle player for Taylor Swift to the drummer for Cheap Trick to the bass player for P!NK to the trumpet player for Billy Joel, plus, seven GRAMMY Award winners, two Rock & Roll Hall of Famers, a Las Vegas headliner, three Emmy Award winners, and even participants from “American Idol,” “The Voice,” “America’s Got Talent,” and “The X Factor” (including one singer who won “The Voice”). Guests have come from an array of genres and locales (the latter to include 17 different countries).
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NHTE 293 Don Miggs
Bi-coastal singer, songwriter, and guitar player, who has a music publishing company, recording studios in Tampa and L.A., a weekly radio show, co-authored a book that was released this past February, and is even involved in film and fashion. Music-wise, he just completed a score for a new movie, writing a few of the songs with Billy Corgan from Smashing Pumpkins. He has also had multiple song placements on the Food Network. And he has shared the stage with the likes of John Fogerty and Paul Anka, and has even written with artists from Boyz II Men to Plain White Ts to Candlebox.
NHTE 292 Hannah Anders
Singer, songwriter, and guitar player who lives in Nashville. She had a feature with Sirius XM and will be returning as the headliner at KIX Country Fest in Daytona Beach, Florida. She toured the UK and Ireland as the headliner of the Rednecks and Rhinestone Festival. She was chosen to perform on the main stage at Summer NAMM 2019 and had also performed at this year's CMA Fest. She also has a vocal studio and does voice coaching, having coached people on "The Voice," Disney, and Nickelodeon. Last year she was a USO Featured Artist of the Month.
NHTE 291 Shannon Lauren Callihan
Nashville-based singer, songwriter, and guitar player who has a single out that got more than 50,000 streams in the first two weeks. Another new song is on the way. She played a sold out show in New York at Rockwood Music Hall. Shannon mixes elements of neo-soul with the melodies of R&B into a fresh sound all her own.
NHTE 290 Grace Askew
Rolling Stone magazine deemed her the number one most robbed contestant on season four of "The Voice." She is currently in the midst of a two-year songwriting challenge, which had started off as a song-a-day for one year. Based in Memphis, she is a singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. Her new album is releasing two days after this interview comes out.
NHTE 289 Emily Wolfe
In the last seven months this Austin, Texas-based singer, songwriter, guitar player shared the stage with Peter Frampton and Billy Gibbons at the Winter NAMM Show, released her first album, and had three performances at South by Southwest. She has two songs on Spotify with well over one million streams each. She has been touring the U.S. extensively.
NHTE 288 Carl Wockner
Australian guitarist, songwriter, and acoustic live looping artist now living in Nashville. In 2015, he became the only Australian artist to ever win Top Honors at the International Acoustic Music Awards and the following year he and his family moved to Nashville. Between multiple headliner performances at festivals and touring, he is rumored to be one of the busiest musicians in Nashville. He is becoming well known by his signature “dreads and red glasses.”
NHTE 287 Justin Johnson
A multi-instrumentalist, known best for his guitar skills. His original music has been licensed to Dodge Motor Co, Ken Burns, the Discovery Channel, Animal Planet, PBS, and more. Guitar World magazine says he is a “must-see act” and he has been praised by Bootsy Collins for his funk. Widely seen online due to his having come up with a shovel guitar, he has a combined social media following that tops one million. He is also the founder of Roots Music School in Nashville.
NHTE 286 Frontier
A four-piece rock band from Kentucky that includes two brothers and a cousin. Their latest album was produced by a multi-platinum producer who has also produced for the likes of Sheryl Crow and Tom Petty. Frontier has shared the stage with the likes of Montgomery Gentry, Restless Heart, and Kevin Richardson & Brian Littrell of the Backstreet Boys. Frontier was also selected to play on the Avid stage at the 2019 Summer NAMM Show in Nashville, where this episode was recorded. The band has released two albums and is hoping to get in the studio and record some new music soon.
NHTE 285 Ben Cesare
Singer, songwriter, guitar player who relocated to Nashville from Boston. Last month he had five performances as part of CMA Fest and his debut EP has accumulated over 400,000 streams on Spotify. He gives us the exclusive with his new song that will be released at the end of next week (on August 2nd), to be followed by an international radio tour. He and his band were chosen to perform at both the Winter NAMM Show in California this past January and the Summer NAMM Show in Nashville last week.
NHTE 284 Cole Fredrick of Undecided Future
The guitar player and a singer in the band Undecided Future. The band won the 2019 Young Entertainers Award. In 2017 they had won Best.Cover.Ever with mega-artist Jason Derulo and performed a song with him and exclusive video on YouTube. They are regulars on the Main Stage at Downtown Disney in Anaheim, California, and have also played notable venues and events such as the House of Blues, The Viper Room, and the Winter NAMM Show. The band has gotten radio airplay both throughout the U.S. and internationally, and is ranked #1 in their area on ReverbNation.