Summary: Steve Hodges is Senior Vice President of Capitol Records / EMI Nashville. He's worked with hundreds of artists including Garth Brooks, Keith Urban, Lady Antebellum, Dierks Bentley, Darius Rucker, and Trace Atkins. This episode is all about breaking acts via radio. We talk about how Steve started in radio (on the programming side), how he got his first major label job, the importance of research, songs that are "too hot" for radio, how the importance of radio affects songwriting, riding around in a car with Keith Urban, how Lady Antebellum broke, the secret behind Darius Rucker's life after Hootie and the Blowfish, and more.
