Tony Scott: 0:21

Welcome to The Jay Franze Show, a behind-the-curtain look at the entertainment industry, with insights you can't pay for and stories you've never heard. Now here's your host, Jay Franze.

Jay Franze: 0:49

And we are coming at you live. I am Jay Franze and with me tonight the carry to my Brad, my beautiful co-host, Miss Tiffany Mason.

Tiffany Mason: 0:59

I like it. You finally got it right Nice.

Jay Franze: 1:03

If you are new to the show, this is your source for the latest news, reviews and interviews, and if you would like to join in, you can do that by going over to jayfranze. com, where, well, you can throw your questions, comments and concerns, and we may or may not answer them All right, before we get started, let me tell you what the question of the day is. Question of the day is what is an overplayed 80s song that you will never get tired of?

Tony Scott: 1:34

What is an?

Jay Franze: 1:34

overplayed 80s song that you will never get tired of. Hold your answer now. We'll get to that a little later in the show and if you would like to put your comments or your thoughts in the comments section. Please do, and we will read those off a little later as well. All right, folks, tonight we have a very special guest with us. We do, we have a very special guest. We have a country music recording artist. Got that, Miss Tiffany. Country music recording artist. Got that, Miss Tiffany, country music recording artist hailing from the great state of South Carolina, we have Mr Trey Calloway.

Jay Franze: 2:09

Trey sir, how are you?

Trey Calloway: 2:12

What's going on y'all? How are you guys tonight?

Jay Franze: 2:15

We are very good, sir. All right, sir. Well, let's go ahead and jump in, tell us about this new song you have out there.

Trey Calloway: 2:22

She Don't Break it. Well, I wrote this song with two of my great friends my new producer, brandon Hood, who's working on this new album with me, as well as Terry McBride from McBride on the Ride, and he wrote Cowgirls, don't Cry. For Brooks and Dunn. He wrote Play Something, country for Brooks and Dunn. He wrote If you See Her, if you See Him, for Brooks and Dunn. He wrote if you see her, if you see him, for Brooks and.

Trey Calloway: 2:41

Dunn and he's had a bunch of George Strayed cuts. Man, he's actually out on the road right now, uh, uh, writing for Brooks and Dunn's new album with him. He's up out on their tour with him right now. So it's, he seems like he's having a blast. But, um, no, his song is called she don't break it. And uh, I think, uh, I think I had the hooking idea in my head for, uh, like they don't make them like they used to, or something like that. And brandon sat there and pondered for a second. He was like how, how about she don't break it like she used to? And I was like, man, that's never uh, been said before. So we sat there and wrote about an hour and, uh, thanks to zach top, you know, shuffled her back in style again. So it's a little country shuffle, man, we play it every show and people are really loving it. Man, by the second or third chorus they're singing along with it. They're really liking it.

Trey Calloway: 3:33

How'd you meet up with Mr McBride? So, terry, my social media guy is his social media guy. He'd been saying man, you've got to meet Terry, he's a great songwriter, you've got to meet Terry. And so I went to his show. If I'm not mistaken, it was in either a single release party or an album release party. It was at Old Red downtown in Nashville. Went to see them play and then we shook hands and no, that was actually the second time I met him.

Jay Franze: 3:56

The first time I met him If you're going to keep lying like this, we're going to need a comment.

Trey Calloway: 4:00

You're like I'm going to end this right now if you keep on lying.

Trey Calloway: 4:03

No, the first time I met him, my wife and I we went to see him perform at Country for a Cause, which is a charity event they do for the Children's Hospital there at Vanderbilt. I didn't play it that year. I got to play for the first time this year, but that year I was just sitting in the crowd as one of the fans and my wife and I got to go backstage and meet Terry and hang out with him and we were actually walking out of the venue after the show and we talked to him out back for about 30 minutes he sat and talked to us we were going to call an Uber because we had Ubered down to the venue and he pulled up in his truck and he said you guys need a ride home and we had Ubered down to the venue and he pulled up in his truck and he said you guys made a ride home and he gave me a ride home and we talked that whole ride home and it was a lot of fun.

Trey Calloway: 4:50

He's a super, super cool dude, pretty much the coolest guy in any room anywhere. He is man, he's a good mentor and he's been a good influence on me in my career. So, yeah, he and I have been buddies for a while now. But we met through my social media guy and, as you know, nashville's all about those contacts, man. It's all about meeting so-and-so and meeting so-and-so. But I always say, if you're doing the right things, you meet the right people. God puts the right people in front of five.

Jay Franze: 5:11

I only ask. He was on the show and he had some of the best stories.

Trey Calloway: 5:15

He was just the nicest guy. He's chock full of stories, man, and he'll tell them all to you, even if you've heard it before, man, he'll tell it and it'll be like fresh. It'll be a fresh story the way he tells it. He never tells it at the same time. Did he tell you his mullet whipping him in the face story? Yeah, so there's an old music. I can't remember what song it is, but there's a music video they're in where they were filming on a beach. Beach and the winds blowing his hair around and like whipping him in the face Tells me that a lot of shows, man, it's a funny story.

Jay Franze: 5:44

Yeah, no he had the best stories. I mean they all did. They were all on here, the three of them, and they had just had the best stories.

Trey Calloway: 5:51

Billy and Ray too. They're all. They're all three great guys. They're all three great guys, man.

Jay Franze: 5:57

So what was?

Trey Calloway: 5:57

it like working with Brandon. So Brandon is working with Tom Myers right now, he's working with Mackenzie Carpenter, brandon Warshaw, me, dan Marshall. He's got a lot of new artists that he's working with and honestly, I think Brandon is Nashville's best kept secret as of right now. I think he's one of the next big producers that's going to come up and I feel like I met him at the perfect time and I actually met him through terry. So without without meeting terry, I would never have met brandon, and brandon is a phenomenal, phenomenal musician, songwriter and producer. We actually cut two new songs the other day at the castle over there in franklin, tennessee, not too shabby. Well, I mean, you know, they say, you know all kinds of studios have crazy names and stuff, but then you know like, oh, it's called the Castle and you don't really think too much of it. But then you pull up and it's a literal castle. I think Al Capone owned it during Prohibition and he like would run his whiskey out of it and there's some history in that building.

Trey Calloway: 6:55

Yeah, and Brandon's been pulling out the A-team for these sessions. I mean he's got Bruce Boughton and Boughton and I have been buddies for a while. Bruce played steel with me for a little while, but Bruce Boughton was on steel. We had Gordon Mode on piano. I mean all these guys are legends. Tom Bukovec on guitar I mean all these guys are just the top of the top session guys. And're all super, super kind to me and nice and man. It's been a great experience working with brandon. I like to think I've met the producer that I'm going to work with for a long, long time, I hope I have.

Jay Franze: 7:28

Well, that's good. What? What makes it that way to you?

Trey Calloway: 7:32

honestly, it's the, it's the kindred spirits. You know we both want to to make country music, and when I say country music that's a broad term nowadays. I never came to Nashville to be the flag waver for traditional country or 90s country or whatever have you.

Trey Calloway: 7:51

I love modern sounds, I don't mind that kind of stuff, but the message and the music has to be on Denali country and Brandon and I both understand that there is music that's called you know there is. There is music that's called country music and then there's country music he and I both agree on. On what that is.

Trey Calloway: 8:08

You know I'm a little bit of a cut up. I'll goof off in the studio. If the session guys are all goofing off, I'll goof off with them. He's very good about staying organized and keeping everybody on on a business and that's kind of what I need. And he's a really good leader. He's a good teammate. It's been a lot of fun working with him. I hope that we work together for a long time Plus. He's like right on this cusp of just exploding. I think that he was put into my life at the perfect time.

Jay Franze: 8:38

I think he and I made each other at the perfect time. Well, you know, great music, great studio, great musicians. I can only imagine what's going to come out of it.

Trey Calloway: 8:45

Hopefully we'll get us a good winning combination. I think we have man. She Misses Me, and Misses was the first single off of that, off that album, and then she Don't Break. It was a second. We're getting ready to drop a new one here in a couple of weeks.

Jay Franze: 8:57

Very cool. So you say you like working with Brandon and you like the way that you guys bond over the same style of country music. Yes, sir, what kind of producer is he though?

Trey Calloway: 9:07

Well, he is. To a degree he's a lot like I am to where I've always trusted the session guys. I mean, they're who they are for a very good reason. They're who they are because they know what's going to sound good. They know what is going to turn out good on a record, especially what's going to translate on a record really well. And I've always been the guy who said, hey, let these guys experiment, let them have fun, let them put their own spin on these songs. He's very good about doing that too. He is not a super micromanager. He definitely lets the players experiment and and and do what they like on there. And I like that too.

Trey Calloway: 9:50

You know, I, I my first album was very much like that, very micromanaged and very okay. You sit over there in the corner and we're gonna do the music and then we'll let you know when it's time to sing. I wasn't necessarily ready to co-produce or give my input yet, but now I am, and Brandon and I do that well together, I think because he's such a likable guy. I mean he's a family man, he's as nice as they come. I mean he's a good leader. Like I said, he can keep people organized. When it's time to get serious. He'll make people get serious and stuff. That's a skilling of its own. As far as an overly micromanagerial producer he's not that I've heard people in interviews say that those session guys at that level they don't need to be micromanaged. I'd let the guys play minute-long guitar solos if I could get away with it on radio.

Trey Calloway: 10:44

If I could get away with it, I'd let them do it. That's one thing I do admire about the 90s country is those guys, those artists. Let those players show off. That's why those records turned out so timeless. Nowadays, everything's drum loop, very simple guitar lick over top and then overly compressed vocals, overly processed vocals, washy, washy cymbals and hi-hat, and it's a very formulaic thing. And brandon's not like that. That's part of what I like about him. That's very. I have always been. You know, I'm an expert in what I'm an expert in. If I was to stand in the way of them doing what they hear, I'd only be hurting myself in the long run. You know what I'm saying.

Trey Calloway: 11:30

And usually on work tapes of mine, I'll have like a cool little guitar lick that I came up with and it might be something they take and embellish on and make it better. And you know, 99 of the time they do make it better. Right, I'm mature enough to to realize that, but I honestly do. Guys, I feel like I moved to nashville at the right time. Moved to nashville when I was in my late 20s I mean, I'm still young, it's only been a couple years but it's like I was past the ego stuff. I was past the drinking and the partying and, you know, getting caught up in stuff that didn't matter. I was ready to move to Nashville and I was ready to take on the challenge of that town and not have an ego about it. Because if you have a big ego in this town, man, it'll eat you alive.

Tiffany Mason: 12:18

Well, first up we miss carrie underwood. She is gearing up, you guys, for the 13th season on sunday night football. I love her opening song. I know I'm a chick, but her body in that intro, her legs are just sheer muscle and they've got like some tan oil or something on her.

Jay Franze: 12:40

I mean she looks smoking hot trey, do you know anything about what she's talking about?

Trey Calloway: 12:47

I know I was gonna say. I was only gonna say my son is obsessed with carrie underwood. He's like obsessed, and he's 10 years old I mean he's getting to that age and he's like he's he's just obsessed with her. Oh yeah, yeah, for sure. That's all I got to say about that. I can't say too much.

Tiffany Mason: 13:04

Well, last week we talked about the song Girl Crush. I mean, whew, all right, I don't know.

Jay Franze: 13:10

Seems like you're getting a little overheated here I don't know, let's cool things down.

Tiffany Mason: 13:15

Okay, so we had Luke Bryan on tour, and you know this dude Luke who. Bryan Bryan Trey.

Tony Scott: 13:27

You don't know, sometimes I put a.

Tiffany Mason: 13:29

T at the end it's Bryant, normally, okay. So he's on the stage and a ball comes flying at him and do you remember when the fan put their cell phone on I don't know what it's called the catwalk or whatever that the performers walked down on and he slipped and he fell and hit his tailbone real hard. Anyway, now he's got a ball coming at his face, so I don't know. He said that if he would have known who it was, he would have jumped down and confronted him.

Trey Calloway: 14:05

But instead he opted to keep the party rolling. So that was in north dakota, at the, at the fair. Do you think he would have thrown fists? Trey, man, I try to think about. I try to think about what I'd do in that situation. Honestly, man, I'd have to really stop myself from getting angry. There's been a an epidemic of this lately of people throwing stuff at entertainers and stuff, and I think it's just a symptom of, like, our society. You know, I think people have started to assume that, like artists are not real people, like they don't have feelings and stuff and they don't, they don't feel that kind of thing. Well, I mean, personally, I hate it. I hate it, man, I would. I've never throw something at it. Why are you gonna pay money to go see a concert, right? Luke Bryan is a great entertainer. He always has been. You know he's, he's one of the biggest country artists of the past few decades.

Jay Franze: 14:49

I mean, he, he, he deserves respect, you know, I mean he deserves respect as a human being, but as an entertainer too, and well, I don't think anybody should have anything thrown at them, but I think he's too nice of a guy that I don't think if he hopped down there he'd be throwing fists. I think he might have some words to say or whatever, but I don't think he'd throw fists at all.

Tiffany Mason: 15:10

Yeah.

Trey Calloway: 15:11

I definitely think they should throw them out of there if they get caught doing it.

Trey Calloway: 15:14

But I haven't gotten to that level. You know I don't know. If I ever do do I don't know how I'll react. You know I've also seen some of the artists act not great either, you know. So I think some of the artists are creating an atmosphere of chaos like that. You know what I mean. You know I'm not gonna say who I think is, but I think our whole society has gotten a little bit like that disrespectful and stuff you know and I hate that man.

Trey Calloway: 15:37

Hopefully we could turn it around over the next couple years and we start treating each other like human beings there you go start with my wife.

Jay Franze: 15:48

All right, miss tiffany, move on before I get in trouble okay.

Tiffany Mason: 15:53

Well, mr shaboozy, do you remember we reported that he was doing some shoot where he backed up traffic for lanes on end, I think in Arizona. Well, he is doing it again. He's got backlash after allegedly trespassing a private land for a scenic shoot. Montana locals say that it's a breach of tradition and trust, trust. So, shibuzee, if you want a little bit of good news, stay off of the highways when you're shooting your anger scenes and your scenic shoots on protected property.

Jay Franze: 16:31

All right, Trey, let me ask you a question when you do your videos, do you get permits for everything you do?

Trey Calloway: 16:36

I was just about to say. I have been thrown out of places for shooting content and stuff, and a lot of times you don't even know that you're breaking the law. He might have known. He was not supposed to be there. Hell, we just got thrown out. I was shooting up in one of the parking decks in a place I park. At all the time we were shooting up Me and my social media guy were shooting up there and this poor security guard came up to us and he was like guys, I'm sorry but I've got to make y'all leave. So I've been thrown out of places for shooting content. I can't throw in a shade of shibuji.

Trey Calloway: 17:10

But I also understand the people who own the land's perspective, you know.

Jay Franze: 17:15

I totally get it. Well, I'm going to guess if he was out in Montana it was probably a wide open space that he had no idea belonged to somebody. But I've worked for a film crew and we used to do videos for the country artists and nine out of 10 times nobody wanted to go through the effort of getting a permit.

Jay Franze: 17:31

So I mean we did everything from Percy Warner Park. We would get kicked out of Percy Warner Park or we'd get kicked out of all these places in Nashville. But people would do it. They'd film as much as they could get and then they would leave.

Tiffany Mason: 17:44

Yeah, okay. Well, we have talked in the past about artists having these great tour buses, or artists that have had to leave their kiddos at home, and so these were just kind of some heartwarming stories that we thought we would share. Kelly Clarkson she had surprised her fans by belting out Since You've Been Gone with her kids on stage, the Vegas audience has got a bonus dose of adorable family vibes.

Jay Franze: 18:10

That's awesome. Talk about probably one of the best songs ever. That's an absolutely amazing song, Trey. What are your thoughts on Kelly?

Trey Calloway: 18:18

I love Kelly Clarkson man. I man, I remember god, I don't even remember how, what I was when since she's been gone and now I remember being a little upset that she wasn't a country artist. She did, of course, a couple crossover stuff later on, but she was really mainly a pop artist and I was. I was sad to see that because I didn't. I didn't feel quite like about pop back then the way I do now. You know, when I was a was, like you know, country music's the best and blah, blah, blah. But I love Kelly Clarkson, I think she's a good role model and I like her TV show. I watched her show a couple of times.

Trey Calloway: 18:48

I definitely think she's a really cool man and I would have to say she's probably one of the best female vocalists that's ever lived. Maybe one of the best vocalists.

Jay Franze: 19:06

You know one of the best vocalists. You know I don't mean to separate the two, I'd say she's probably one of the best vocalists that's ever appeared.

Trey Calloway: 19:10

So just an incredible voice man, so would you say she could sing better than paul mccartney?

Jay Franze: 19:12

technically, yes, it requires a story real quick, jerry, I was at the grammys with bob bullock, famous producer. We we were at a Grammy party in Nashville and he was all upset that Kelly Clarkson won the Grammy for Best Vocalist over Paul McCartney. And I told him I said well, she's better. And he lost his mind on me. He said no, she's not better. I said look, it didn't say Best Songwriter, it said Best Vocalist and she's clearly the. I said look, it didn't say best songwriter, it said best vocalist, and she's clearly the better vocalist.

Trey Calloway: 19:43

But that created quite the story yeah, well, you know you, when you think, when you talk about impact on the music business, I mean that's no question, paul mccartney's one of the biggest musicians that's ever lived, not just like right, even in our time. I mean, he's literally like mozart. I mean I think a thousand years from now they'll still be talking about paul mccartney and the beatles music. But I don't know, I don't, I, I can't say he's like the best singer in the world and I don't even think he would say that, right, I don't necessarily think he would say that. He would say I'm a good singer and I'm, I'm able to get that message across with emotion, which is really more important than anything. But like you're right, flat out, you know singing. There's not many people that can touch that woman. You know what I'm saying sorry, bob.

Tiffany Mason: 20:33

Well, someone else who had an adorable family moment was mr jason aldean. We shared last time that his kids got to see the tour bus, so his kids are on tour with him and their names are Memphis and Navy and they ran on stage for a sweet post-show hug, wrapping up dad's set in heartwarming style. And someone else that might be having a heartwarming moment with their family Mr Cole Swindell. He used to not know if he was going to get married or not, but now he's expecting his first baby, so he was questioning if it was in the cards, but now he's walking down the aisle and he's gearing up for fatherhood.

Jay Franze: 21:10

Be careful, Cole. I didn't want to get married either. I didn't want to have kids. Now I have three. Three kids, not three wives. It's a whole different story. Three kids, not three wives.

Tiffany Mason: 21:21

It's a whole different story. I don't know how any guy does that. I mean, every man is overwhelmed with the one they got.

Jay Franze: 21:27

Yes, it sounds great on paper, it's not. Trust me, it's not a good thing. You don't want to be involved. I had a picture with my family and a friend of ours this week and everybody kept asking me who the girl was. I said, well, it's my girlfriend. And they're like are you kidding me? That's your wife right there. I'm like, yeah, she knows it's okay. So, anyways, I tried that for a little while.

Tiffany Mason: 21:52

It didn't work. Dre, have you ever had your son come out on stage with you or any moments like that? Have you ever had a?

Jay Franze: 21:58

girlfriend in addition to his wife. Have you ever had multiple girlfriends or wives.

Trey Calloway: 22:05

It's hard enough to juggle one man. I don't think I could juggle another I don't think I could juggle another.

Trey Calloway: 22:10

I'm a one-woman guy man. But no, no, no, I have. His name is Cash, my son's name is Cash, taking him to the beach tomorrow we're going to go get us some beach time, but no, I have. He's come on stage with me several times now and I did a song about a year ago now called Working Thing, with my buddy, justin Bilton, and he's the bass player for Three Doors Down. He's also a country artist. So we wrote this song called Working Thing and we went and cut it and Cash just loves that song and he'll always jump on stage with me whenever he's at my show. He has not seen me in nashville yet. So we got it. We got to get him out there to music city and I really think he'd fall in love with that town man, I mean it's. And the older he gets, for a while I wasn't sure if he was going to be musical or not, but since about nine or ten I've really started to see his musical talent blossoming.

Trey Calloway: 22:59

He was singing in the truck today and I can't. What song was it? It was a heavy metal song. We were singing, he was nailing it note for note and then he was like humming along with the guitar solo and he had the guitar solo memorized and he was singing every note of the guitar solo too and I was like I was like that's, that's pretty impressive, and he's he's written songs and stuff. He's played me some stuff he's written and you know the ideas aren't flushed out, but the rhyme schemes, the ABC, the AABs, all of the order that it takes to be a good songwriter is all there. He's definitely got that way of putting words together. So it'll be interesting to see. He says he claims he wants to be a rapper as of right now. He's big into Eminem, he loves Eminem, he loves Kendrick Lamar, but he also loves country music too, because he's grown up listening to it. So you never know, he may be a rapper, he may be a country singer, he may be a heavy metal bass player.

Jay Franze: 23:54

My daughter is 10, and she's into Eminem as well. So who knows, maybe it's a 10-year-old thing.

Tiffany Mason: 24:01

Now, trey, you said he hasn't been to Nashville yet. You think he would fall in love. Are you nervous that he would fall in love, that he'd get to bug?

Trey Calloway: 24:12

Nervous in a good way. I think that if he came out there and sees what I actually do on a regular basis, I think he would fall in love with it. You know I'm going to highly highly stress to him when he gets older that he finished all of his school and stuff. You know, cause for me it was like it was all I could do to get out of high school. And then I said, you know, no college for me. I know I want to play music for a living and so I dedicated myself to that and I'm glad I did. But I'm also not glad that I never experienced the college experience. But I guess the college debt is one thing that I don't carry around. I know a lot of my friends are in some serious college debt, so I don't have that. But I was always dedicated to music, All the bands I was in. That was like my fraternity. A band is like a fraternity in a way and that was like my fraternity. You know, a band is like a fraternity in a way.

Trey Calloway: 25:01

I really want him to finish his school and have more options, because his daddy really don't have any options. You know, it's either music or, you know, go work with my hands and you know, I might start a restaurant. I've jokingly said that if I don't make it in the music business, I'm going to go start a restaurant down at the beach and just be a beach bum that makes awesome food at this beach shack and plays gigs out front of it or whatever. But, who knows, that sounds like the life. I mean, honestly, that actually sounds like a pretty good life. So that's that's my backup plan as of right now to start a restaurant. If I, if I don't make it, if I don't make the big time like I want to, I think I might, uh, I don't know just start a little beach shack, Not like a super low class beach shack, like somewhere in the middle, where you can walk in there wearing a swim front and a t-shirt or you can walk in there like on a nice date night kind of thing too. You seem to maybe need to put a little bit more thought into this. Well, you know, as as a father and a husband, you know I do think about, hey, what's going to happen if I don't get everything I want from the music business? You know, I do think about that stuff. I mean, I, I, uh, of course music is my lifelong dream. I mean, I'm, I've dedicated and continue to dedicate everything to it. But you know, it's the chances of me ever being the next Dark Brooks or the next George Strait. It's a long shot. You know how it goes, man. So if it doesn't happen the way I want it to, I'll always play music.

Trey Calloway: 26:34

Y'all going to come eat in my beach restaurant with me, Absolutely. My father-in-law started calling me Chef Trey. I think the name's going to stick Definitely on the shore somewhere, a tropical kind of environment. I lived in South Carolina for six years. So definitely I moved from Charlotte, North Carolina, where I'm from, to South Carolina and then so I kind of claimed both the Carolinas as home. But that beach life definitely sank into my soul. I did it really sank into my soul. So it would definitely be a beach bar slash restaurant forever.

Jay Franze: 27:08

All right. Miss Tiffany, why don't you wrap us up on the news here?

Tiffany Mason: 27:12

Yeah, okay. Well, I think we're going to end with Mr Zach Brown. So Zach Brown, the front man, has dropped over 60 pounds. He says that he's just been doing clean eating, he has done daily sweat. He had Trace tapping the old bicep suns out, guns out, and he said he even cranks up video games during cardio. He's also relying on monthly IV treatments to stay youthful on the road. But he's not going to be on the road to stay youthful on the road. But he's not going to be on the road. In December His love and fear residency at the sphere is launching and so he's betting on jaw dropping production and the emotional storytelling tied to the release of his new album. So I guess we're going to expect a slend down Zach Brown for his residency. So that's kind of exciting. And also, like I've been on this whole clean eating, you know, and trying to, you know, daily workout and it feels good man. So I'm excited for him. And how much better is he going to enjoy that residency by just feeling better. So good for him.

Jay Franze: 28:17

Tracer, have you been to the sphere yet?

Trey Calloway: 28:21

I have not. I've only been to Vegas one time in my life. It was a while ago and the Sphere was not built yet. But my wife and I are going on our one-year anniversary trip. We're going to go to Vegas and then we're going to rent a car and drive from.

Trey Calloway: 28:35

Vegas to the Grand Canyon. So we're going to kind of make it a big road trip that circles from Vegas to the Grand Canyon. So we're going to kind of make it a big road trip that circles from Vegas to the Grand Canyon and then back.

Jay Franze: 28:42

I have to know you mentioned your wife. Do you guys actually live together now?

Trey Calloway: 28:48

So no, so it's. My life is very complicated, jay. I have been living in Nashville for three and a half years. My wife is a civil engineer and we have a house in Myrtle Beach, south Carolina. That's where she lives. She lives and works in South Carolina, and I live and work in Nashville, and my son is from my hometown. He lives here. I'm in my hometown right now, and so we I make this big triangle every month to go see him, and then sometimes I get to go home to South Carolina, but not very often, but we usually meet in the middle, in the Charlotte area is usually where we meet.

Trey Calloway: 29:30

It's been tough, jay, it's. I'm not going to lie to you and say that it's been an easy thing, because it certainly has not not, but we both realized that while her and I are both still young and and trying to establish ourselves in life, it's the best thing for us to do, and her and I are closer than we've ever been. I mean honest, honest to god. We're closer than we've ever been I'd be close to my wife.

Jay Franze: 29:52

I didn't live near either we talk every day.

Trey Calloway: 29:55

I mean we're more in love now than we've ever been.

Trey Calloway: 29:58

We're really we are I will say we are really looking forward to this Vegas trip because it'll be good. It'll really be like the first chance that we've been able to be alone for a while. So we're really excited about it, man. But no, when I talk about it some people go how do you do that? And I'm like to me and her. It's become our way of life now. And it is like to me and her. It's become our way of life now. And it is tricky, man. But you know, if I do get to that big stage one day, it'll be a lot of traveling and a lot of touring. Her and I are both prepared for that. And I mean, man, I couldn't have gotten any luckier with wives. I mean, she's the best wife in the world.

Jay Franze: 30:36

I just want to point out you did say that plural.

Tiffany Mason: 30:40

Yeah.

Jay Franze: 30:42

I got that too. Maybe there's more to this than we can get to.

Trey Calloway: 30:48

No, she's the best wife in the world. She really is All right that's better. She's been on a business trip this week, man. She's been traveling all over North Carolina with her company man.

Trey Calloway: 30:57

She's rubbing elbows with the big wigs at her company man and her boss and his wife are great friends of ours as well and I told him today that I wanted to be the spokesperson for their company I don't know how that's going to work a buckle wearing cowboy hat wearing country singer, right being the spokesperson for a civil engineering company but we'll find some kind of way to make it work all right question of the day.

Jay Franze: 31:23

What is an overplayed 80s song that you never get tired of? Miss t Tiffany, I always say it. Do you want to go first or do you want me to go down and read some of the comments?

Tiffany Mason: 31:33

I will forever hold my silence, till the end.

Jay Franze: 31:36

I don't think there's a forever and holding silence that is associated with your name.

Tiffany Mason: 31:44

Truth, truth.

Jay Franze: 31:45

All right, trey, sir, I'm going to give you the option. Would you like to go the option? Would you like to go first or would you like me to read some first?

Trey Calloway: 31:52

yeah, I'll go first. I'll go first. I have two. Can I say two?

Jay Franze: 31:55

he does not know the rules all right, I'll just pick one.

Trey Calloway: 31:58

Don't stop believing about journey don't stop believing it's overplayed, but I never get tired of hearing it. It is so overplayed and I I work on broadway so I hear it 14 times a night. But but here's how I am with with certain songs. I never get tired of hearing the record like I'm a little bit tired of playing devil went down to georgia, but I never get tired of hearing charlie daniel's version of devil went down to georgia. I never get tired of it. It's just a musical masterpiece, and so is don't stop Believin'. That's my answer. My other one was going to be Livin' on a Prayer by Bon Jovi.

Jay Franze: 32:33

Also played every night on Broadway.

Trey Calloway: 32:36

I love both of them.

Jay Franze: 32:37

I have a feeling that Don't Stop. Believin' is going to show up on this list 5,000 times tonight.

Tiffany Mason: 32:42

I mean, it was on mine.

Jay Franze: 32:43

Don't go making shit up tonight, miss Devane, don't go making shit up tonight.

Tiffany Mason: 32:46

Look, look, look, look, look, it's right there.

Jay Franze: 32:48

All right, right there, right there, right there, all right.

Tiffany Mason: 32:56

Well, Karen says George Strait, Amarillo by morning, Amarillo by morning.

Jay Franze: 32:59

She says, it still gives me goosebumps every time I hear that fiddle kick in.

Trey Calloway: 33:07

Trey. I'm not tired of that song at all. I love it. I love anything George Strait. Honestly, I will say I have, as I've progressed as a country artist, I have found newer well, new, but new to me George Strait songs that I will play, more so than the ones unless they're recorded Like Full Hearted. Memory is one we've been doing a lot lately because I never played it before. I moved to town and then now I started playing it and I love it. I don't know. Emerald by Morning is an okay one with me. I'm not tired of it yet.

Jay Franze: 33:36

Would you say that George Strait is probably the most important man in country music?

Trey Calloway: 33:43

My vote would be that George Jones is the greatest country singer of all time, but George Strait is undisputedly the king of country music. I think he is the archetype of country music. When you think a country music singer, most people are going to think either Johnny Cash or George Strait.

Jay Franze: 34:04

So who's the most important man in country music?

Tiffany Mason: 34:07

Influential.

Jay Franze: 34:09

Important we changed it to influential halfway through oh.

Trey Calloway: 34:15

I'm going to say George Jones.

Jay Franze: 34:16

All right, fair enough, moving on.

Trey Calloway: 34:19

There's a couple of them that I would pick If I could pick like five, like who are the five most influential country artists of all time. But if I got to pick this one, it's George Jones five most influential country artists of all time, but if I've got to pick just one, it's George Jones.

Jay Franze: 34:30

Well, there was a list of 25, and we felt George straight and Garth Brooks should have been fighting it out for one and two, but come to find out they were not for whatever reason and it's pretty weird.

Trey Calloway: 34:43

It's pretty weird Garth Brooks does not get the credit, especially nowadays. I think that he truly deserves. I think I've maybe told you before Jeremy Garth is my favorite country artist of all time. He's the reason I play country music for a living. It's because I heard Rope in the Wind. That whole album made me want to be a country singer. But I think George Jones has to go down in history as the greatest country voice of all time. In my opinion, and he's my dad's favorite country singer all time. In my opinion, and he's my dad's favorite country singer george jones is like part of the religion in the calloway household.

Jay Franze: 35:13

Nice, all right.

Tiffany Mason: 35:13

Moving on, mike says alabama mountain music oh yeah, if it came on, I'd be hoedown on hoedown.

Jay Franze: 35:27

You'd be hoedown.

Trey Calloway: 35:38

I would be. I would be tapping my foot on the dance floor, trey, it's hard for me to answer a lot of these because these are songs I've played a million times and I'm a little sick of playing them. I think there are a lot of Alabama songs that are better than that song but don't get the credit for some reason. Like I think Roll On Highway is my favorite Alabama song. We hardly ever get requested that one and that's my favorite one to play.

Tony Scott: 35:58

You know which one I'm talking about.

Trey Calloway: 35:59

Roll on highway, roll on along. That's my favorite one of all time. And then it's now. She's a lady down on love, she needs somebody I mean that one like to me that's peak alabama or closer you get, further I fall that one too. So I'm just sick of playing mouth music a little bit, but I still enjoy it.

Tiffany Mason: 36:27

Those are all good other Alabama songs. Those are all good picks, and my daddy did drive an 18-wheeler.

Jay Franze: 36:34

He drove a 17-wheeler.

Tiffany Mason: 36:36

No, he didn't.

Jay Franze: 36:38

He was missing a few lug nuts. Alright, I think this is. I'm going to have to spell it. You can tell me what you think it says? A-n-t-a-r-m-e-n.

Tiffany Mason: 36:52

Antarum.

Jay Franze: 36:53

Antarum says I agree with Trey Don't stop believing by Journey.

Tiffany Mason: 36:59

Yeah yeah yeah, trey.

Trey Calloway: 37:02

I mean honestly, don't Stop Believing is probably like one of the top 10 biggest songs of all time. I mean it's got to be. There's probably not a human being, I'll say, in America that doesn't know that song. I agree with you. Maybe the world, any civilized place where there's like a city, people are going to know that song.

Jay Franze: 37:27

Absolutely All right. I was going to say yes, I think it'd be the world all right, let's see where you know, journey is jay's favorite band, yeah yeah, journey has always been one of my favorites. They were my favorite growing up, for sure.

Trey Calloway: 37:43

True, yeah, I love journey.

Jay Franze: 37:45

I mean I've separate ways is my favorite journey song see, I think that's where Journey started to jump to Sharper.

Trey Calloway: 37:52

That's a whole different story that music video is great, though, where they're like sitting on that dock someday someday love will find you. I think he was wearing the same shirt I'm wearing now they were in a warehouse outside of a warehouse, oh yeah got it I remember it and they're.

Jay Franze: 38:15

They're playing air instruments and stuff cheapest music video ever right yeah it's a great song.

Trey Calloway: 38:24

You can have a bad music video for a song that good all right, let's see.

Jay Franze: 38:28

See what Sarah has to say. Reba McIntyre Whoever's in New England.

Tiffany Mason: 38:34

Pretty good song.

Trey Calloway: 38:36

I like that song. It's not my favorite Reba song, for sure. No fancy. I like Little Rock, Little Rock.

Tiffany Mason: 38:46

I like that song a lot.

Trey Calloway: 38:46

That's probably my favorite Reba song. I love that song a lot. That's probably my favorite.

Tiffany Mason: 38:52

I love that song.

Jay Franze: 38:54

All right. Well, Laura says the Judds grandpa.

Tiffany Mason: 38:58

There, you go.

Trey Calloway: 39:03

The Judds are the greatest country music duo of all time, besides Brooks and Dunn. The Judds don't talk about. The Judds are the greatest country music duo of all time, besides Brooks and Dunn the Judds.

Jay Franze: 39:15

Don't talk about the Judds.

Trey Calloway: 39:16

The Judds are goat status Well to be fair, laura was saying they're good, I'm saying Noah's and I disagree. I think the Judds, everything the Judds ever did, is amazing.

Jay Franze: 39:24

All right, hold on, hold on, Because Laura's saying that's the song she can listen to. She says it reminds me of a simpler time and of my own grandparents.

Trey Calloway: 39:33

Okay, good, I misunderstood. Then I was like I love the Judds I don't think you guys truly understand Like I have a massive crush on the 80s Judds. I wish I could go back in time.

Jay Franze: 39:48

All right, miss Tiffany, I just want to say I think he would throw fists.

Tiffany Mason: 39:52

I think he would too, because he got real fired up just over an opinion.

Jay Franze: 39:56

Can you imagine what would happen if somebody threw a ball at him?

Tiffany Mason: 39:59

No, no, I don't want to see it. I don't want to see it. And he already showed us his guns.

Jay Franze: 40:03

Trey, we're going to keep you on mute for a few minutes because I think you've earned yourself a time out.

Tiffany Mason: 40:08

Just take a couple deep breaths. I will tell you, though after one of our last episodes, I brought up the song Grandpa, and then we found who was it Dave Fenley.

Jay Franze: 40:18

Yes.

Tiffany Mason: 40:19

F-E-N-L-E-Y. Oh, it's a good rendition.

Jay Franze: 40:26

You've got to go check it out if you're a big fan of that song. It was so good. Trey, you hang tight after you're making it this far. You're going to hang tight until this is over. I'll play it for you. I think you'll enjoy it. It was so good, all right, jenny, not my wife, but a Jenny says Dwight Yoakam guitars and Cadillacs.

Tiffany Mason: 40:45

Now I worked at a restaurant and they played it all the time and it just makes me think of that stupid job and no it's ruined for me.

Jay Franze: 40:55

She says she worked at a restaurant. She owned the restaurant. I'm just throwing that out there.

Tiffany Mason: 40:59

That wasn't the one we owned.

Jay Franze: 41:00

Oh, sorry, it wasn't that one, trey. Go ahead, trey.

Trey Calloway: 41:09

Yeah, I'm a little sick of guitarist Cadacs. If I'm being honest, I like fast as you. That's my favorite blight yokel song to sing fast that people just get super amped when you start that riff when you break oh yeah, yeah, that's a good live show song and I like guitars, cadillacs, but I've just played it a million times and, like I said, it's hard for me to be not personal with these songs because I've played them all a million times. So it's kind of tough. I'm a little sick of it.

Jay Franze: 41:38

All right, Dave says I misunderstood. I made a list of my favorite 80s songs. Sorry, Most of my 80s favorites were underplayed. It's been a few decades but.

Tony Scott: 41:56

Every.

Jay Franze: 41:56

Little Thing she Does is Magic by the Police is a bit overplayed, all right.

Tiffany Mason: 42:03

But still sounds good when it comes on the radio. It does, but I agree it's overplayed.

Jay Franze: 42:08

Now I want to know what the other songs on his list were. But Trey, what are your thoughts on? Every Little Thing?

Trey Calloway: 42:16

I actually don't know that song.

Jay Franze: 42:18

Oh, yes, you do.

Trey Calloway: 42:20

Is the song, is the police, Every breath you take yes. I love that song. Every smile you take.

Jay Franze: 42:28

I would tell Tiffany to sing it to you. All right, Tiffany, sing them a little bit.

Tiffany Mason: 42:40

No, I feel like Trey is one of those people that would have been on American Idol and they would have been like oh man, you could sing the phone book. If you can sing the phone book, you can sing. That's what I think they would say to Trey. I don't really listen to that all day long, man.

Jay Franze: 42:54

Just start on the A's and not the Z's. We've already established how hard the X's can be. Anna Marie no Bolet Photography. That's a friend of mine okay, I figured it would be um jump van halen oh jump, yeah.

Tiffany Mason: 43:16

Yeah, it's a good one. A lot of people like it that's right.

Trey Calloway: 43:20

so so my dad is a big, big van halen fan and I I grew up listening to van halen, so I would say that I've gone through phases in my life where I was a little bit sick of jump, but all in all, if I hear jump somewhere, I'm like going to get amped, I'm going to be like I mean, I love, I love all that stuff. I mean and like I, but I will say I have an unpopular opinion. I like Sammy Hagar better than I like David Lee Roth's voice.

Jay Franze: 43:54

Hands down.

Trey Calloway: 43:55

So I like Van Hagar, but I do like Van Halen. I like David Lee Roth too, but I just think Sammy Hagar was a better singer.

Jay Franze: 44:04

It's like going back to Kelly Clarkson and Paul McCartney. Sammy Hagar can sing, david Lee Roth was just a front man. I think if we talk about jump, it's the same as Journey's Separate Ways. That's where Van Halen jumped the shark, because they wanted to play 80s music and bring in synths and try and do something that they weren't.

Trey Calloway: 44:25

Yeah, really jump. There's like jump. And then I think think is I'll wait on that, that album too. I'll wait till your love runs out. I'm coming straight for your heart that's david lee raw and I think that's like the only two synth songs. They only only tried it on that album. They didn't really go crazy synth on that album, Because the rest of it is like I think Ice Cream Man's on that album too, Like I'm your ice cream man.

Tiffany Mason: 44:57

That's a great song.

Trey Calloway: 44:59

Oh yeah, they're all great that whole album is great dude.

Jay Franze: 45:02

I think Ice Cream man I thought that was before that album, but Panama's on that album.

Trey Calloway: 45:05

I'm either thinking I think Ice Cream man is on 1984. I think it is. And then, of course, eruption's on 1984 too no.

Jay Franze: 45:13

Eruption's not on 1984.

Trey Calloway: 45:15

Eruption is on.

Jay Franze: 45:17

You're making me question everything you've told us tonight.

Trey Calloway: 45:20

Are you sure? Eruption's on it you Really Got Me is the lead track of whatever album I'm thinking about, and then Eruption is the second track.

Jay Franze: 45:27

Van, of whatever album I'm thinking about, and then Eruption is the second track Van Halen's self-titled album.

Trey Calloway: 45:31

Okay so, van Halen has got the one with you Really Got Me and Eruption on it. Okay so what's the first track on 1984?

Jay Franze: 45:37

The first track is 1984. No, that's back to the other one as well. Those are the early ones. That's when Van Halen was really good.

Trey Calloway: 45:44

That's what I like. That's what I like. That's what I grew up listening to. I had both of those albums memorized and it's just been so long since I've listened to the whole thing together. But I remember, like Whoa, whoa, whoa, jamie's crying.

Tiffany Mason: 45:59

Wow, wow.

Trey Calloway: 46:01

Those are great songs on that album. Both of those albums are great.

Jay Franze: 46:05

Now, that was earlier as well. The 1984 album was 1984, Jump Panama. So those were the big ones. Drop Dead Legs was a big one off that one. Hot for Teacher was a big one.

Tony Scott: 46:18

Anyways, there you go.

Jay Franze: 46:19

But you know what that takes us back to this list over here. This show tonight is going to go four and a half hours. Folks, I'm sorry, I'm going to just tell you that in advance. Hold on. Trey's trying to say something here, hold on.

Trey Calloway: 46:31

I was saying I got to go to bed pretty soon guys. I got to go to bed what?

Jay Franze: 46:37

we need is to pass the shots around. I'll blow through our list. There's too many tonight. Shannon says Roseanne Cash, seven-year ache Too many tonight.

Tiffany Mason: 46:50

Shannon says Roseanne Cash.

Jay Franze: 46:50

Seven Year Ache Mm-hmm. Eric says Ronnie Millsap, stranger in my House.

Trey Calloway: 46:55

Ronnie Millsap is the GOAT.

Jay Franze: 46:57

Okay.

Trey Calloway: 46:58

Tell him to go listen to.

Jay Franze: 46:59

He's agreeing with you.

Trey Calloway: 47:01

Tell him to go listen to Prisoner of the Highway. I've been really jamming out Prisoner of the Highway lately. I love that song Anything Trucker. I've been really jamming out Prisoner of the Highway lately. I love that song Anything Trucker. I've been really into Trucker songs lately.

Jay Franze: 47:11

He says, the piano is just pure mastery.

Tony Scott: 47:14

Yes.

Jay Franze: 47:16

Okay, tracy says John Anderson's Swingin'.

Tiffany Mason: 47:20

I'm just a swingin'. I love swingin'.

Trey Calloway: 47:23

We play it almost every show. We play swingin' a lot. That always gets people dancing.

Jay Franze: 47:29

Oh, here's the Oak Ridge Boys on the list. Paul says the Oak Ridge Boys Elvira.

Trey Calloway: 47:35

I love Elvira.

Jay Franze: 47:39

He says it gets me every time. That's Caden's favorite Mm-hmm. Caden K-G-C. We say it slow, so we get it right. Lisa says Juice Newton, queen of Hearts.

Trey Calloway: 47:54

You don't like that one? Yeah, that song is a stinker in my book. You know what song I absolutely hate? There's only one song in the world I absolutely hate.

Jay Franze: 48:02

I would never think you were going to tell us a negative statement, sir.

Trey Calloway: 48:05

It's what's Going On by Four Non Blondes. I cannot stand that song. I've never been able to. Okay, I've never been able to.

Jay Franze: 48:17

I just hate it all right, daria nitty gritty dirt band fishing in the dark yes, girl, it's on my list too that's what she said. She said I know this is on Tiffany's list, but I'm gonna say it anyway uh-uh yes. I don't know how she knew that.

Trey Calloway: 48:42

Trey that's a great tune. I got nothing bad to say about Nitty Gritty Durban.

Jay Franze: 48:47

He was on the show too.

Trey Calloway: 48:48

Was he really yeah, timeless song.

Jay Franze: 48:51

He was great, all right. Mike says Living on a Prayer Mike, I almost read your last name. I tell you this all the time Don't put the last names unless you want me to read them. So, living on a Prayer. Dina says Pour some sugar on me. Phil says talk it in your sleep. That's the Romantics, right?

Trey Calloway: 49:09

Great song.

Jay Franze: 49:10

Yeah, he was on the show too. Mike Skill from the Romantics.

Trey Calloway: 49:14

I hear the secrets that you keep Found out when you're talking in your sleep. That was great. That's just a hit song, man. That song could be cut by anybody and it'd be a hit.

Jay Franze: 49:25

Jason, jason, I think you nailed it. I think we could. I'm not going to because there's more people to read off, but, jason, I think we could call it quits.

Tiffany Mason: 49:34

Right here he says phil collins in the air tonight will I remember nice all right well, I shared a story with a neighbor of mine that I would, you know, drive down that road with my boyfriend. We listened to that song and then every time it came on she would make fun of me, or every time anybody alluded to it or anything. But that is a classic core memory for me. Yes, the drum solo. Yes, yes.

Jay Franze: 50:08

Carla says Reba McIEntire, Little Rock.

Tony Scott: 50:14

Oh, Little Rock.

Tiffany Mason: 50:16

Yes, agreed.

Jay Franze: 50:19

All right, I'm going to wrap it up on these final two, because they deserve to be on this list tonight.

Tiffany Mason: 50:27

Okay, I feel like they're going to be better than mine, so I'm going to throw mine out there.

Tony Scott: 50:31

Okay, fair enough.

Tiffany Mason: 50:33

Okay, okay. So I'm going to say two. I know I'm going to break the rules. So the first one was Girls Just Want to have Fun. There is no woman alive that that song comes on. Ah, there's no woman that that song comes on and we don't all like, yeah, it's a classic for every woman, okay. And the other one is Whitney Houston. I Want to Dance with Somebody. I got to throw it out to my pop sisters Little girls just want to have fun and I Want to Dance with Somebody. Okay, Like women, we can't resist them.

Jay Franze: 51:07

Fair enough, trey.

Trey Calloway: 51:10

Whitney Houston is one of the most beautiful, most talented women that has ever lived. She is a queen, and I wholeheartedly agree with that statement. I want to dance with somebody who's one of the greatest pop songs of all time, and I'm a huge Whitney Houston fan Always have been been. I remember being a little kid watching her and being like man. She's like an angel. You know what I'm saying. So, uh, no, no, she's. She's phenomenal and so sad that we thought that this earth lost her so soon. Have you ever seen that video of Kevin Costner at that award show when they were doing that thing about her? You know he was like in love with her when they were filming the bodyguard.

Trey Calloway: 51:50

I fell in love with her, like completely fell in love with her, and he's sitting there bawling. He's sitting at this award show and they're like got her up on the screen and they're doing this thing about her life and he's sitting there just bawling. It's it's one of the most powerful things I've ever seen. You should go watch it. It's really cool. I love whitney houston.

Jay Franze: 52:06

I'm a huge fan all right, let's go ahead and wrap it up oh, let's see if they were better than mine well, you stole peter's thunder.

Tiffany Mason: 52:14

Peter says, girls just want to have fun yes, gosh, our crew members, like we are simpatico man he follows it up with.

Jay Franze: 52:22

Don't judge me. And then Rachel says all right, I'm going to go with Trey George Jones. He stopped loving her today. There you go, trey. Speak to Rachel.

Trey Calloway: 52:41

That's the greatest country song of all time. It has to be at least considered in the talk of the greatest country songs of all time. It's a beautiful song, man.

Tony Scott: 52:49

And it was his comeback.

Trey Calloway: 52:51

I mean he was pretty sick of the road and touring and being George Jones, and then he put that song out and his career went again.

Tony Scott: 53:00

Great song.

Trey Calloway: 53:01

Great way to end it too. It was a great last song, I think.

Jay Franze: 53:04

Yeah, we did that for you, cersei. We know what we're doing around here.

Trey Calloway: 53:08

Yeah, absolutely, you guys are pros.

Jay Franze: 53:11

We're something.

Tiffany Mason: 53:16

Alright. Well, mr Bailey Zimmerman. He's in spot number 10 with Backup Plan.

Jay Franze: 53:21

I always forget we start at 10 and go to 1.

Tony Scott: 53:24

Yeah, Is that how this?

Jay Franze: 53:26

works Trey. You said we were professionals. I don't know if that's proven to be true you guys are professionals all right, go ahead.

Tiffany Mason: 53:33

Sorry, miss tiffany okay, I'm super excited about this top 10. I just I. I just want to put that little disclaimer out there. Okay, mr luke brian country song came on. He went from number eight and he went up the charts to number nine.

Jay Franze: 53:49

Down the charts.

Tiffany Mason: 53:50

He went down the chart.

Jay Franze: 53:54

He fell, he stopped climbing.

Tiffany Mason: 53:57

Another fan threw something at him and he fell. Trey, just said that you were a professional.

Jay Franze: 54:01

And now look what's happening.

Tiffany Mason: 54:06

There's all that false confidence built me up.

Jay Franze: 54:10

Trey, you want to say anything to Miss Tiffany?

Trey Calloway: 54:12

No, I think you're doing a wonderful job. Tiffany, I think you're crushing it Perfect.

Tiffany Mason: 54:18

All right. Well, mr Shibuzi, he is on the charts with a little bit of good news. Well, it's just called good news, sorry. Good news At spot number eight, numero ocho, jay's favorite number, okay.

Jay Franze: 54:32

Not ucho.

Tiffany Mason: 54:33

Not ucho Not.

Jay Franze: 54:35

Ocho. I'm not eating Ocho ever again.

Tony Scott: 54:37

Ocho went right through me.

Tiffany Mason: 54:42

Trey Alright. Number seven is Mr Thomas Rhett. After All, the Bars Are Closed. Be listening to that song today In the radio In the car on the radio Wow, wow, wow.

Jay Franze: 54:53

Trey, let's talk for a minute, let's go ahead. Let's go ahead and mute Miss Tiffany for a second. I love me some Thomas.

Trey Calloway: 54:58

Rutt, y'all, I love me some Thomas Rutt.

Jay Franze: 55:03

We just took a break. We're going to mute Miss Tiffany for a minute. Let her collect herself. All right, go ahead. Miss Tiffany, I'm just messing with you, please don't hurt me again.

Tiffany Mason: 55:15

Stop Number six. Corey Kent, this Heart. I'm fine with it going from number four to number six. It's not doing anything for me.

Jay Franze: 55:25

She didn't like you here last week. She doesn't like you here again this week.

Tiffany Mason: 55:29

No, no, you can just.

Jay Franze: 55:30

We'll save you from the negative talk Trey. That's all us tonight.

Tiffany Mason: 55:35

All right. Number five, Mr Tyler Hubbard, with the song Park going from seven to number five.

Jay Franze: 55:43

Climbed the charts.

Tiffany Mason: 55:44

Climbed the charts to number five Just up the rungs. Okay, now you guys. I'm very excited about the top four. I'm very excited this song was just on the radio today. Mr Nate Smith Fix what you Didn't Break.

Tony Scott: 56:00

Again, that's a great song. I love that he went up two spots.

Tiffany Mason: 56:02

I love this song. I love Nate Smith. I heard about him at Roscalusa. I didn't know who it was, and now, all of a sudden, completely on the radar.

Jay Franze: 56:13

Love and now all of a sudden, completely on the radar, Love him. I'm just saying any girl out there that wants to come fix what my wife has broken just come on over.

Trey Calloway: 56:19

Help her brother out.

Jay Franze: 56:21

Trey, what's your thoughts on that song?

Trey Calloway: 56:23

I love Nate Smith. I remember that World on Fire song. He's cool man. He's mixing that rock thing with the country. It's not my style but really like respect the hell out of him for it. I mean he's doing it well and and he seems to be a really nice guy. Every time I see him in interviews and stuff he seems to be really like loves fans and loves people, and so I'm. It's. It's good to see guys like that getting some success never met him.

Jay Franze: 56:48

I haven't either.

Trey Calloway: 56:49

Good to hear I've seen interviews and stuff and he seems really genuine. You can tell sometimes when somebody is pretending to be nice or whatever he don't seem like that.

Jay Franze: 56:59

What Tiffany's like every night?

Tiffany Mason: 57:04

No, you can't fake this kind of genuine-ity, genuineness. Tiffany, you're fired what took you so long? Alright, you guys. Number three oh, I'm so excited. Sam Hunt, country House. I love this song so much. God, I love this song. It was my recommendation, like a month ago or something. And now here we are and he just, he's holding his own, he's holding steady Two weeks in a row. Numero tres there you go, trey.

Trey Calloway: 57:42

My wife's new favorite song. She loves that song. Even though I'm not a bro country guy, I was always a big Sam Hunt fan. I always like Sam Hunt. He just seems to be a cool guy.

Jay Franze: 57:51

I love the fact that you said bro country.

Trey Calloway: 57:56

I think he would even admit he was one of the poster boys for the bro country era. But he's still cool. He was always cool man. I was a big fan of him from day one.

Jay Franze: 58:05

I'm with you sir.

Tiffany Mason: 58:07

Alright. Number two is Mr Josh Ross. This is like a tongue twister name. Tiffany, you're fired, goodbye.

Tiffany Mason: 58:16

It's hard, it doesn't matter how many times you try to say it. Josh Ross, like didn't his parents say it out loud before they named him? Like yes, this is our son, josh, josh, josh, josh, josh. Like they didn't practice it first? That's like the number. I always did a yell test before we named any of our kids, like if they were getting in trouble or something you know, like Hannah Elizabeth Mason that had enough confidence that you could really get behind it with some bite.

Jay Franze: 58:46

All right, say it three times fast.

Trey Calloway: 58:49

Josh Ross. Josh Ross. Honestly, I've never heard this song, so I don't know.

Jay Franze: 58:55

Yes, you have, there's no way.

Trey Calloway: 58:56

You've not heard this song.

Tiffany Mason: 58:57

Oh, you've definitely heard it Single again.

Trey Calloway: 59:00

Oh, oh, you wanna live and be Single again. Oh yeah, yeah, I like that song.

Tiffany Mason: 59:04

No no.

Trey Calloway: 59:05

I do, I do like it. Yeah, it grew on me.

Tiffany Mason: 59:08

No, it's, it's when you're all over him. I hope you're all over me. I got a king size bed, just missing a queen.

Trey Calloway: 59:21

Yeah, yeah, yeah, I'll be your first call. Yeah, you're talking about single again, right? Yeah, that's what I was just saying. Okay, I was thinking you will never be single again. Yeah, yeah, I love that song. It grew on me. I was thinking you will never be single again. Yeah, yeah, I love that song it grew on me. I didn't. I didn't love it at first, but it grew on me and now I really like it for sure.

Jay Franze: 59:42

Children, do not make me turn the show around.

Tiffany Mason: 59:44

Well, I love that one so much. A because Hannah and I got to meet him with. Jay and I were exchanging pictures of when we met Josh Ross. And then I love that he alludes to Nashville with his saying the 615 area code. You know you can hit me up on 615. I don't know why that's like so cool to me, but it's going to come up in the number one song as well because Mr Morgan Wallen, just in case he brings up Demumbrion, and so I just think that that's so cool.

Jay Franze: 1:00:16

I don't know why it's cool. You said the membrane again.

Tiffany Mason: 1:00:18

I know, I know You're so proud of me, but yeah, so it's going to be Morgan Wallen. Just in case, he went from number two spot to the number one spot and I hope he holds it for a minute, man. I just want to say you didn't even allow for a drum roll tonight.

Trey Calloway: 1:00:39

I got too excited. Jay, there you go.

Jay Franze: 1:00:42

All right, well, no drum roll, but still we made it through.

Tiffany Mason: 1:00:47

We still got there.

Jay Franze: 1:00:49

Everybody knows what's up. All right, trey sir.

Tiffany Mason: 1:00:52

Wait, I want to ask, trey, something really quick. So I got so excited because I love the words and the storyline and all that kind of stuff and I wanted to ask you, when you were talking about when you're collaborating with the other studio musicians and they give you some ideas and everything like that are you also as flexible with your lyrics? Because I wonder if, because you don't play all these instruments, if that's why you're a little bit more flexible on what they do with it, but the words are kind of your craft. So do you feel as open when it comes to the lyrics? Because that's what I love so much and that's why I get so fired up about, you know, the morgan wallen, just in case song or whatever right.

Trey Calloway: 1:01:32

So just kind of curious I mean, we actually had a similar thing happen. A kind of thing like that happened on this last session we did. Tom bukebeck came into the vocal booth after listening to the work tape and he said, um, there's something funky going on right here. He's like how about we try this? And he played it for me and I had thought the same thing before going into the studio, but I didn't speak up. You know, I just didn't want to change the plan at the last minute or whatever, but I had written this extra line and when I picked up the guitar and played it for him.

Trey Calloway: 1:02:04

I changed. He was like that's exactly what I'm talking about, can we do that? And I was like, yeah, I was hoping we would be able to do that. So we made that change on the fly.

Trey Calloway: 1:02:12

And no, I mean, I'm 100, you know, flexible. I mean when I'm in a song, right, and I'm with co-writers or whatever, I I will, unless my rule of thumb is kind of, unless I am like obsessed with this line, like this is the line that makes the song. I'm willing to be outvoted on something you know, unless I'm like dead, completely convinced that like we cannot take this line out or change it, or like it has to be in there. I'll make us think about that. But I'm usually kind of, if you write with a group of three you and two other people you can outvote somebody and say, hey, what do you think about this? And you can vote two to one on the idea. So, no, no, absolutely not. I'm. I'm not a stickler about any of that stuff. No, I think many you know, more hands in the pot make a better product, got it? Thanks, tiffany, that's a good question.

Jay Franze: 1:03:04

You earned your way back on the show Fine.

Trey Calloway: 1:03:07

Yeah.

Jay Franze: 1:03:08

All right, real quick thoughts on Morgan Wallen.

Trey Calloway: 1:03:12

My thoughts, or Tiffany's thoughts.

Jay Franze: 1:03:14

Your thoughts or we don't care about Tiffany.

Trey Calloway: 1:03:17

I think Morgan Wallen is the modern-day Garth Brooks. I mean, he's the biggest thing in country music. There's no doubt about it, and I think that, for a lot of guys that are out there trying to emulate what he's doing, if you're trying to emulate what another artist is doing, then're you're not doing the right thing. You got to find your own thing. That's you, and so, though I do not try to emulate him, I have a ton of respect for his artistry and there's no doubt that, like, he's gonna be one of the biggest country artists that ever lived. By the time it's all said and done, he's breaking all kinds of records and stuff. I mean, people say he can't sing. I I don't agree.

Trey Calloway: 1:03:56

I think he's a phenomenal singer, you know. I I think he's growing up. From what I'm seeing, he's maturing and growing up and I'm glad to see that. I'm really glad to see him kind of start finally starting to realize like, hey, I'm a role model. People are watching what I do, and I need to, I need to be living right. At least I hope he is From one guy to another. That's what I would tell him is there's a lot of weight. People watch what you do very closely. There's a lot of weight on what you do and so you have to be a leader, and I think that he is. It seems like he's starting to come around to understanding that. But as he's starting to come around to understanding that. But as far as his music goes, I enjoy his music. We play a lot of his songs.

Jay Franze: 1:04:42

A lot we do um, the way I talk and whiskey glasses and chasing you, and I love my favorite one by him, that's uh, sand in my boots, that's my favorite song by him I think you say he's the modern day garth brooks and I think you could say that with the level of success he's the modern day garthth Brooks and I think you could say that with the level of success he's the modern-day Garth Brooks.

Trey Calloway: 1:05:00

But if you're talking about musical style, I would say that you were the modern-day.

Tiffany Mason: 1:05:01

Garth Brooks. I'll take that I would agree.

Trey Calloway: 1:05:02

Well, I appreciate you saying that, Jay. That makes me happy. Hopefully We'll see if I've got to have that first hit. You've got to have that first hit before you can have all them hits. You know what I mean.

Jay Franze: 1:05:14

You have the first hit. It's just that nobody has heard it yet.

Tiffany Mason: 1:05:24

All right, miss Tiffany, what do you got going on this week? Well, you know what, I have gotten a couple of new clients and I have been doing a ton of client work and I've been working ahead a little bit on client work. And you know what, today was the day and I was like I'm doing my podcast episode today. So tomorrow we got some fresh memories of the beat. It is with Salisha Thomas Weiss and she is a Broadway performer and she is married to Andrew Weiss and he is with Podfest, and so that was where I originally made the connection. I think you know Andrew. So this is his wife. She is extremely animated. You think I am animated? No, no, no, I am like dull compared to her. So it was a very fun conversation. She says very fun things, again, just very animated, a lot of of energy, but it was a really fun interview. So that comes out tomorrow on memories of the beat.

Jay Franze: 1:06:16

Check it out what song did she choose?

Tiffany Mason: 1:06:20

you're all I need to get by. It's by marvin gaye and tammy I cannot remember her last name, but it's a pretty cool song. But she has such a cool story where it like inspired her after she moved to new york city and then she didn't know what she was going to use for her song when she walked down the aisle to Andrin. That's actually the song that she chose and it's just it's kind of great like deep lovey, I don't know comfortable feeling to it. Yeah, it was just like I said. It was a fun interview. I don't know if you have this experience experience but like when you go back to edit, like it's fun to revisit the conversation, and so it was really fun to to have that conversation with her again. As I went through and edited it and it was one that right after we got done recording, I was like I should just release it raw. It was just so good.

Jay Franze: 1:07:07

Trey Tiffany has a show called memories, with a beat, where she talks to people about a particular song that brings back a memory that they have. So that's what we're discussing this guest and that particular song.

Tiffany Mason: 1:07:19

Nice. That's how Jay and I started our relationship.

Jay Franze: 1:07:24

That's how our friendship grew. That's how we got another wife involved Tiffany's number 16. Lucky number 16, though.

Tiffany Mason: 1:07:33

I want to be number 8. I want to be number eight.

Jay Franze: 1:07:34

You want to be number eight? Well, it's divisible by two. There you go. You're my second eight. That's all it is.

Tiffany Mason: 1:07:43

Okay, well, I brought up the song. Girls Just Want to have Fun. Jay, what have you been up to?

Jay Franze: 1:07:48

I've had fun.

Tiffany Mason: 1:07:50

Have you.

Jay Franze: 1:07:54

The inner girl in me has had some fun this week. Trey, my friend, I've had an opportunity this week. A friend of mine, a girl named Rocky Rose. She was on the show a couple times now but it's been a little while. She's going to have to come back on, but she is out on the road with Cyndi Lauper and she's playing keyboards for Cyndi Lau Lauper and they came through town last night. So a couple of days ago when they first got to town, I went to her hotel, picked her up in beautiful hotel but it's absolutely amazing. Her hotel room had a loft. I mean, it was just an amazing room. It was just absolutely fantastic.

Tiffany Mason: 1:08:32

But I guess that's what happens when you travel with Miss Lauper.

Jay Franze: 1:08:36

Also they had a private section of the hotel that nobody knows about. So when the celebrities do come to town they're in a private section of the hotel. And it was funny to me because the crew members weren't in the private section but the band members were in the private section and she was saying also, the baseball team was in from out of town the away players that play in the Reds this week, which was the Los Angeles Dodgers. They were in the private section as well. But I picked her up and we went to dinner and my family came out and met us there. So we got to eat dinner together and talk to her and catch up. And then last night my wife and I went to the show, which was amazing. It was really cool. And then after the show we went back to say hello to everybody.

Jay Franze: 1:09:21

But the funniest part to me of the whole thing was when the show was over and we went out to leave the venue. We were so late leaving the venue, all the gates were locked, so my wife and I we could not get out of the venue and we had to hunt people down to open up the gate for us and we walked far because it's an outdoor venue and it's, you know, surrounded by gates. So we walked far to get to the gate where our car was. So I'm like, okay, so we found somebody that led us through the gate. Then we go and cross the street and we get into the gate where our car was. So I'm like, okay, so we found somebody that led us through the gate, then we go and cross the street and we get into the lot where our car is and we get in the car and then that lot's locked.

Jay Franze: 1:10:02

We were the only car left in that lot and it was locked, you were a lot lizard. We were a lot lizard. My wife had to go back and find the security guard that led us out in the first place, and then he find the security guard that let us out in the first place.

Tiffany Mason: 1:10:22

And then, um, he let us out of that gate as well and we were just fools, but I did. I put um photos up on the, the instagram, the gram as the kids call it. Those pictures were so cindy lauper, I couldn't stand it. They were so colorful and that jacket she was wearing the white jacket with the red polka dots on it. Like just every shot I was like, of course that's a cindy lauper concert.

Jay Franze: 1:10:34

Of course that's a cindy lauper concert tracer, what do you have going on this week?

Trey Calloway: 1:10:42

um, tomorrow morning at 5 am I'm getting up and I'm taking cash my son, I'm taking him to the beach and we're going to be down there with my mom and dad and baby sister and my wife and we're going to just have some fun and have us a little vacation. My mom and dad have been working really hard all year and haven't been able to take a vacation, so they went down there tonight. They already went down there. They're enjoying my house without me and um and I had to take. I had to take my son to taekwondo today. That's why I didn't get to go down there. I had to take him to Taekwondo and he had his Taekwondo pictures today. So then he had his class and by the time we got back it was time for you and I's interview, and so I figured I'd just drive in the morning.

Trey Calloway: 1:11:24

But I'm going to get his little butt up early and we're going to hit the road man and I'm looking forward to it, man, because all I do I feel like all I do is work, so I'm looking forward to a couple days off. We're going to do a low country bull down there, um, which uh people that ain't from south carolina it's like a seafood boil and with sausage and potatoes and stuff and corn and all that stuff. And then on saturday my dad's gonna smoke a. But we, we north carolina people, we make barbecue all the time. So my dad's got a great barbecue recipe and he's wanting to invite a bunch of my wife's family over because they're all from Ohio. He's like I'm going to give them a little taste of North Carolina. And my mom always makes red slaw, which is like a vinegar-based slaw and it's my favorite, so she always makes it for me. And, yeah, we're just going to have fun and get some sunshine. Man, I'm looking forward to a couple days off as soon as I get back next week.

Trey Calloway: 1:12:15

I've got my regular shows. I've got a couple business meetings. Still working on this album, man, we're trying to plan a tour for next year. I'm excited about it, man. I'm probably 90% chance going to be on the road a lot next year. I won't be playing in Nashville. As much, I'm ready. Man, I'm ready to rock and roll.

Jay Franze: 1:12:37

Alrighty, sir. Well, Miss Tiffany, we have done it. We have reached the top of the hour which does mean we have reached the end of the show. As we say, if you've enjoyed the show, please tell a friend, and if you have not.

Tiffany Mason: 1:12:51

Tell two.

Jay Franze: 1:12:52

Tell two, tell six, tell them all, tell everybody. You can reach out to all of us, all three of us one, two and three, and we will be happy to keep this conversation going over at jfranzyandcom. Tracer, we cannot thank you enough for joining us tonight and we would like to leave the final words to you.

Trey Calloway: 1:13:16

I just want to say thank you to both you guys for always, uh, supporting my music and having me on the show man you guys are. I always have so much fun. You guys are amazing and I enjoy. I'm over here going, man, I've really got to go to sleep and then I just want to talk to you guys all night. I wish there was two of me.

Trey Calloway: 1:13:33

I wish I could make one of me stay out here and talk to you guys all night, but I look forward to being on the show again, if you have me, man.

Jay Franze: 1:13:39

Absolutely, buddy. We'll see you next week. On that note, folks have a good one.

Tony Scott: 1:13:47

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