“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 166 countries around the world and is one of the top two percent most popular shows out of more than 3.4 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 261 Brennley Brown
Recording in Nashville the week that this episode is being released, she's a singer, songwriter, guitar player who performed at the 2019 Winter NAMM Show in late January. She was in the Top 20 of Season 11 of “America’s Got Talent” AND she finished in sixth place on Season 12 of “The Voice.” Plus she has performed at CMA Fest each of the last two years. She is also a voice-over actor, having done work for the likes of Disney and Nickelodeon, plus a Dreamworks series she's currently working on that's coming soon to Netflix.
NHTE 260 Kerry Marshall
Guitarist and producer who has been featured in Guitar Player magazine and has appeared on "Good Morning America." He is a voting member of the Recording Academy. Nicknamed "2Smooth," he has played at very notable venues around the U.S. and has toured internationally. He also is an Army veteran, having served our country to include two deployments to Iraq. He hopes to have his newest release out this year.
NHTE 259 Aaron Haugland
Fort Lauderdale-based singer, songwriter, guitar player whose new album is expected to be released in March. He is the creator of what he calls beach-infused country music. Recently he became the Artist Relations Chair Holder on the Board of Directors for the Trop Rock Music Association and is already eyeing up a performance in November at the TRMA’s Award Show in Key West. On top of all this he works in the corporate world of pro audio sales, keeping him on the front line with all the latest recording gear.
NHTE 258 Hope Cassity
Nashville-based singer, songwriter, guitar player who was on this show way back on Episode 13, which was recorded in 2014, when we talked about the publishing deal she had just signed, the new album she was releasing, and the tour of Alaska she was about to go on, plus it was mentioned then that she had performed at CMA Fest. This time, around, unfortunately, she is speaking from the perspective of an individual who has been battling cancer for a year now and how that has impacted not only her music career but her life.
NHTE 257 Mick Mahan
Best known for being the bass player for Pat Benatar well over 20 years, including touring and recording. He also worked as an arranger on Prince’s “Under the Cherry Moon” and served in the same capacity with Bobby Caldwell. His touring/recording credits are a virtual who’s who in music, ranging from David Foster to Sheryl Crow to Martina McBride, John Fogerty, and many, many more. And, if all his music endeavors aren’t enough, he is even the owner of a pizzeria!
NHTE 256 Jessica Lynn
Singer, songwriter, guitar player who just announced her third TV special that she will be filming next month. Just in the last two years alone she has not only released more new music but had significant success at radio, including charting a couple of her songs. She also toured Europe, including opening for ZZ Top. And she has done music videos that on YouTube alone have gotten hundreds of thousands of views. She's working on nationwide tour dates for 2019 and has started building an international tour as well.
NHTE 255 Heather Russell
Canadian singer, songwriter, piano player who is signed to Gladiator Records. She released a full album in August featuring 13 songs, in the R&B genre. Early on she had been discovered by Simon Cowell and moved with her family to Los Angeles under a major record deal, although she has since moved back east. She has gotten a wide array of press coverage and is a Yamaha-endorsed artist.
NHTE 254 The Hots - Foxie Kelly and Ronnie Simmons
Formed in Australia, now based in Los Angeles, and just released a new EP last month. They have had three radio Number 1s within three weeks here in the U.S. since releasing the single as well as been added to rotation across more than 50 radio stations across the U.S. and Canada. Their music video (including the trailer) got over 300 thousand views in the first three weeks between Facebook, YouTube, and Instagram combined. They were nominated as one of Music Connections magazine L.A.’s top 100 unsigned bands of 2018.
NHTE 253 Michael Sticka
The Executive Director of the Grammy Museum, which has just a few days ago (December 8) celebrated its tenth anniversary. They are a nonprofit and the official foundation for the Recording Academy. The Museum explores and celebrates the enduring legacies of all forms of music, the creative process, the art and technology of the recording process, and the history of the GRAMMY Awards. And, impressively, they have hosted nearly 30 thousand students for tours and workshops as part of their education programs.
NHTE 252 Jeff Dane
The lead singer of Billboard Top 20 and three-time ACM-nominated country act The Lost Trailers. The band was founded in 2000 and just released a six-song EP in September, entitled, “Between Stages,” which was done by an award-winning producer in Nashville. The band is on the Grade One View Music record label. All this and he might sit for the bar exam in 2019.