BEN KRAHNE

Born in 1943 and raised in South Philadelphia, James Joseph Croce, better known as Jim Croce, was one of America’s finest folk singer-songwriters. While...

Country music fans might love their country, but they don’t shrug off other genres of music. It’s widely known through a variety of marketing...

  Classic country fans seem to get awfully worked up when they hear a new song drop on the radio that doesn’t growl like...

    Most songwriters in America, and in the world in general, struggle and stumble to climb up that daunting wall of success. For...

No matter which genre of music you like, no matter your style and no matter your age, everyone knows a Bob Dylan song! We...

When it comes to the type of music you’re going to hear on a Nashville country music radio station, most of it is pretty...

Country Music Nashville Trends – The Top Upcoming Country in 2021 Everybody loves the country music Nashville puts out. Just admit it! You know...

Does country music have an obligation to fight for social justice? This is a question that’s often been asked in the mainstream of America....

I’m going to write a rare piece here, in that I speak in the first person. I’m the lead copywriter here at Nashville California,...

When I write these pieces for Radio Country Hits, I might sometimes use a first-person pronoun or two, but rarely do I speak of...

“No man is an island” is a phrase that’s been with us for many years. It’s basically saying that no one’s ever alone, no...

As Black Lives Matter protests continue on across the United States in order to stand up against systemic racism and police brutality against African...

Back a few decades ago, it was a common thing for kids to be asked in a classroom setting what they wanted to be...

For a lot of country music songwriters out there, not having walked the red carpet on your way to an American Country Music Awards...

It’s been rumored that famous author Earnest Hemingway never wrote a single word unless he was sufficiently buzzed up off alcohol. A lot of...

Do you have songs that you just cannot stand? Many people do. While  hit country music songwriters try their best to appeal to the...

So, you’re all signed up to explore songwriter classes.  You’re thinking about what the professionals are doing. You’ve looked up a lot of songwriting...

The vast majority of the world is religious. Over two billion people are Christians and this is something very often reflected in good, old-fashioned...

The world is jam packed with talented musicians, including lyric writers, great instrumentalists, and more. All sorts of musical genres touch our lives on...

Here at Radio Country Hits, our mission is to show people how a lot of things in life really tie into great country music....