"Radio Lover" is a murder ballad, playing on a recurring theme in country music: A husband who is frequently absent, the wife becoming unfaithful (due to loneliness and desperation for physical intimacy), the husband returning home unannounced to find his wife in the arms of another man and - in a fit of rage - killing both his wife and the man who was with her.
The song's recitation explains that the man killed them both, just as the pre-recorded sign-off giving his signature line that he loved his wife was playing.
"Radio Lover" was selected as the fourth and final single from Jones' 1989 album One Woman Man.
The song had already been released six years earlier on the LP Jones Country, as was another One Woman Man track, "Burning Bridges".
A review of the song in Billboard was positive, stating that "Jones tosses this well-paced radio tale out to the listener and, it's likely, up the chart.