“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 165 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 570 John PayCheck
A country singer-songwriter who released an album on November 1st and has four new music videos in the pipeline. He is a CMA member and was invited to perform last May at the Grand Ole Opry. His first single from his debut album had charted on Music Row and he has shared the stage with Confederate Railroad, Jamey Johnson, and other notable headliners. Born in Nashville but now living in Virginia, he is the son of a country music legend and began his musical journey as a roadie, learning the business while traveling with his father.
NHTE 569 Chris SD
A multi-Juno Award-winning songwriter and producer, he is the founder of Sundown Sessions Studios and the founder and CEO of SyncSongwriter, with five songs from two SyncSongwriter alumni artists having recently been featured in a Cannes Palme d’Or winning film. He has produced numerous hit songs for radio including gold and platinum records for several major-label artists. His credits include working with Blue Rodeo, plus working on albums by major artists like Kris Kristofferson and Bryan Adams, among others.
NHTE 568 Karen Kosowski
A multi-instrumentalist, producer, and multi-genre songwriter who is signed to Sony Publishing. She produced the majority of Mickey Guyton’s three-time GRAMMY-nominated album “Remember Her Name” and is a co-writer on several of the album’s tracks. Based in Nashville, she arranged the instrumentation and choir, and played piano in the final performance of Mickey’s performance of the Star Spangled Banner at the Super Bowl in early 2022.
NHTE 567 Mark Farner
One of the founding members of the legendary band Grand Funk Railroad. A singer, songwriter, guitar player, in September he released a full album, and his American Band continues to tour, including a cruise that they will play on next March. He is a platinum recording artist 30 times over and even earned a Dove Award nomination. A music video for one of the songs on his new album got more than 25 thousand views in just the first four weeks alone of being on his official YouTube channel.
NHTE 566 Steph Carse
A six-time Emmy Award-winning recording artist, filmmaker, and television producer. Music-wise, he released a single in August and the official music video for it already has over 1.1 million views on YouTube. Based near Orlando, he has sold a half million albums and garnered a Juno Award nomination for Male Vocalist of the Year. He is currently directing and producing the movie “Undone,” which is based on a true story, and his 2023 movie musical “The True Miracle of Christmas” is now available on Amazon Prime Video. He is also the founder of the anti-bullying ministry Y i Count.
NHTE 565 JD Hinton
Los Angeles-based singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and actor who was even a radio DJ. He just released a five-song EP on November 15th, his second EP release of the year, and he has more new music coming in 2025. He has performed at notable venues ranging from Rockwood Music Hall to the House of Blues to the Viper Room and even sang in Rome at the Vatican! His music resume also includes having composed music for Hollywood films, including a song that was sung by Celine Dion. With clearly a lot to say musically, his catalog includes an EP last year and three EPs in 2022.
NHTE 564 Ryan Robinette
Nashville-based singer, songwriter, guitar player who released an EP at the end of August. He has been on the iTunes Top 10 Country Charts AND had one of his songs hand-picked by the Global Head of Country at Spotify to be on their “New Boots” playlist, where it stayed for several months being streamed close to two million times. In 2016 his first official music video landed in the Top 10 on Vevo’s Country Charts for multiple weeks.
NHTE 563 Charly Reynolds
Nashville-based singer, songwriter, guitar player who released an album on September 20th and followed it up with an official music video released at the end of October. One of the tracks from her new album was featured on two Spotify playlists and another on Apple Music. She also released an original Christmas song less than three weeks ago. She has opened for big names in country music such as Maddie & Tae, Walker Hayes, Lainey Wilson, and Elle King, and this past June she had multiple performances as part of CMA Fest.
NHTE 562 Twinnie
British country-pop sensation who just released a new album less than two weeks ago. The launch of that project came just six days after having performed at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum. She has already released three music videos for songs from her new album and her official YouTube channel overall has a combined total of more than 1.6 million video views. She has live shows on five consecutive days coming up at the end of November in the UK and had also performed in Nashville in September in conjunction with AmericanaFest.
NHTE 561 Archie Beatz
A composer, record producer, singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, recording & mix engineer, and YouTube personality. Currently based in northern California, he is a voting member of the Recording Academy and has composed music for T-Mobile, Covergirl, and even an NBA star. Plus, as lead composer, he scored an original series on the Zeus Network. He has partnered with a handful of audio brands on his YouTube channel, which is approaching a combined total of ten million video views.