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Step into the recording studio with country artist Robbie Johnson as he reveals the creative journey behind his new single "You Pick the Flowers." In this candid conversation, Robbie shares how the song reimagines his own love story, admitting he never properly proposed to his wife and is now "rewriting my story to make it beautiful." This vulnerability sets the tone for a fascinating exploration of modern country music production.

The episode offers rare technical insights as Robbie describes his collaborative process with producer Danny, who plays nearly every instrument on his tracks and works with Nashville's biggest names. Music enthusiasts will appreciate the detailed discussion of studio equipment, from the coveted Neumann 269 microphone to the specialized rooms for B3 organs with Leslie cabinets. Robbie's meticulous approach to editing reveals how sometimes the most magical musical moments happen after the official recording ends.

Laughter erupts when Robbie shares the "lettuce incident" - a hilariously disputed story about how he met his wife while working at Burger King. These personal moments showcase the authentic personalities behind the music, reminding us that even accomplished artists have relatable life experiences that often inspire their songwriting.

The conversation shifts to industry news covering everything from the upcoming AMCs to Luke Bryan's viral dance moment after slipping during a concert. Jay and Tiffany engage listeners with a lively discussion about the best country vocal intros of all time, featuring contributions ranging from classics like George Strait's "Amarillo by Morning" to contemporary hits. Whether you're a dedicated country music fan or simply curious about the creative process behind hit songs, this episode delivers both entertainment and insider knowledge about the art and business of country music.

Ready to discover your next favorite country song? Listen now and don't forget to stream, share, and request the music you love – as Robbie reminds us, "You guys are the true rock stars that make it happen."

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Episode Transcript

Tony Scott (00:05):
Welcome to The Jay Franze Show, a
behind-the-curtain look at theentertainment industry, with
insights you can't pay for andstories you've never heard.
Now here's your host, JayFranze.

Jay Franze (00:33):
And we are coming at you live.
I am Jay Franze and with metonight, the June, to my Johnny,
my beautiful co-host, MissTiffany Mason.

Tiffany Mason (00:43):
Good evening Jay.

Jay Franze (00:46):
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All right, my friend, before weget started, let me go ahead
and tell you what the questionof the day is.
The question of the day whatare some of the day is the
question of the day.
What are some of the bestcountry vocal intros of all time

(01:08):
?
It could be any vocal intro,but what are some of the best
country vocal intros of all time?
Save it, we'll talk about itlater.
If you want to put yourcomments in the comment section,
we will go ahead and read thoseoff a little later in the show.
But first, tonight we have avery special guest with us.
I said it once, I will say itagain we have a very special
guest.
We have a country musicrecording artist hailing from

(01:30):
the great state of Tennessee.
We have Robbie Johnson.
Robbie, my friend, how are you?

Robby Johnson (01:36):
I'm doing good.
Thank you so much for having meback on the show, jay and hi
Tiffany.

Tiffany Mason (01:41):
Hello Robbie.

Jay Franze (01:43):
It is our pleasure.
We cannot thank you enough forjoining us tonight.
I hear you have a new singleout.
You Pick the Flowers.
What can you tell us about it?

Robby Johnson (01:51):
Yes, so you Pick the Flowers.
It's a song about a guy thatmakes the big proposal to a girl
he's been bouncing around withsince third grade.
And it's funny because you,when I wrote the song the way I
write, I just sit down and letthe words out and realized
afterwards that oh, it's merewriting my own story.

(02:14):
I never did that proposal.
I am married to wonderfulchildren, but I never proposed.
It just happened so quick andit was like the worst wedding
ever.
And I guess, I'm rewriting mystory to make it beautiful,
because you know that's what'sgreat about music is you can

(02:35):
listen to a song.
It's a story song.
You've never been through thatstory in your life, you've never
had that in your life, butstill you feel the emotion, you
live it through the music forthe duration of a song and it's
kind of the same thing for this.
I'm rewriting my own story,making it nice and cute and

(02:56):
acceptable, I guess.
So that's the reason for thissong.

Jay Franze (03:00):
It's funny you say that I proposed to my wife three
to five times before shethought I was actually serious.
Wow, but you worked with dannyon this song, yes, so can you
tell me what part you took, andwhat part he took, in the
writing of the song?

Robby Johnson (03:16):
uh.
So the writing.
Usually how it works is, youknow, I write the song on my own
and have, pretty much you know,the bulk of the song, and then
I just sit down with Danny andoftentimes he will come up with
the chord progression.
We'll talk about thearrangement, structure of the
song.

(03:36):
He will challenge me on somelyrics and oftentimes, when he
comes back with always amazingtracks, I take a listen and I
sing along and oftentimes Itweak the lyrics again and
change things around and makethe song even better.
So I mean, the music wouldn'tbe where it's at without his

(04:00):
input.
So he's a co-writer on prettymuch all of my recent music.

Jay Franze (04:05):
Doesn't he also play as well as produce the projects
?

Robby Johnson (04:08):
Oh yeah, he plays every instrument except for
fiddle.
He leaves that to Janae Fleenerwho's exceptionally, I mean
she's one of the best inNashville and Danny's also, I
mean, a top player.
He plays on the Jason Aldeanrecords, kenny Chesney, john
Hardy, all the big Dersh Bentley, all the big records he's on

(04:30):
there playing.
He's amazing.
He comes from a musical family,knows all, not just country
music, but he knows all the rocksongs, blues, he knows
everything about it.

Jay Franze (04:43):
He's awesome.

Robby Johnson (04:46):
Too much talent for one man, yeah, and also the
talent, but also he's so greatto be around and work with.
He's funny, he has wit and allthat.
So it's.
It's always, it's always goodto hang out with danny and
recording wise.
He has his own home studio areally nice studio, by the way.

(05:08):
I shot a video there once, andalso sometimes I will do
overdubs in a studio innashville, or he will.
You know it's.
He does most of the overdubsthat he does for other you know
big producers and all that hedoes at his place.
He's all set up for that noweven has a b3 and a special room

(05:31):
for the, the speaker, and Imean he's.
He's top level oh, he really isfor sure but when I track my
vocals I usually either go toStarstruck or Blackbird, because
they have the mic that I needfor my vocals.

Jay Franze (05:50):
Which is.

Robby Johnson (05:51):
It's a Neumann 269.
It's a good one.
Broadcast edition yeah, theyhave those at Blackbird and also
at Starstruck, and they havegreat engineers, so it's always
fun.

Jay Franze (06:01):
Well, you know, at Blackbird they're going to have
great engineers, so it's alwaysfun well, you know, at blackbird
they're gonna have that micbecause he's got a mic closet
that won't quit.
I mean, that's how he gotstarted with it.
All is he was collectingmicrophones and had nothing to
do with them.
That's john mcbride, that'smartina mcbride's husband, miss
tiffany, and he startedcollecting microphones and he's
got every microphone you couldever imagine in closets and

(06:24):
closets of space wow everystudio has a mic closet.
He has like a mic house have youbeen there?
Oh yeah, I was there.
Not only have I been there.
That one room they have, withall the dowels that stick out of
the wall oh yeah I was therefor the grand opening of that
when it was.

Robby Johnson (06:43):
George Massenburg's room Wow.

Jay Franze (06:45):
So, yeah, no I mean it's a great place.
It really is.

Robby Johnson (06:49):
Yeah, do you know ?
There's a ghost story.

Jay Franze (06:55):
I do not, but I'm anxious to hear it.

Robby Johnson (06:56):
They say someone is walking upstairs.
You know they don't like apresent where you know they
switch off the lights, they godown and then the lights come
back up on their own or stufflike that.
Just saying so.
I'm never going to record thereat night, that's for sure Fair
enough.

Jay Franze (07:16):
I can imagine if you're recording a record, like
you listen back to a MartinaMcBride record or something you
hear little footsteps goingaround.

Tiffany Mason (07:24):
Yeah.

Jay Franze (07:29):
Hey, could you tell that person to you?
Know that what?
Person there's nobody, that'sthe addict.
I don't know what you'retalking about.
So which of those studios doyou prefer?

Robby Johnson (07:39):
um, I mean, they both have their.
I mean they're great studios,oh they're both amazing, both
amazing, I mean yeah, I don'thave a favorite, you know it's
all about the people you workwith and at the end of the day,
I mean, it's a mic and they haveto have the right gear to go.

(08:01):
You know the vocal chain andeverything, and both have great
equipment.

Jay Franze (08:05):
Well, it's not just that.
I mean Blackbird has students,so they don't only take interns,
but they actually produce theirown students, and those
students are there as well.
So you have a lot of hands youknow helping yeah.
That could be good or it couldbe bad.
If you I mean if you're inthere singing a vocal and you
don't want 20 people staring atyou, Well, actually, sometimes

(08:27):
it's better when there's a crowdlistening.

Robby Johnson (08:30):
You give a little more, you know.

Jay Franze (08:32):
A little bit of oomph.

Robby Johnson (08:34):
Being an entertainer and performer.
Yeah, sometimes it helps.

Jay Franze (08:38):
That's funny.
So you're recording this song.
You're working with Danny.
How long does it take you toput these songs together, like
if you go from start to finishon a song?
How long does it take you?

Robby Johnson (08:50):
a couple weeks.
I would say, you know from thestart, you write it, and then I
mean danny's very, I mean he's avery busy guy, so to find a
window where I get with him, sitdown, play the song, go over it
, and then he starts working onit and then finds the time,
cause he I mean he was withKenny and the sphere in Vegas.

(09:12):
He was there doing those shows,so he was not too shabby.
No, not, not too bad, and uh,even I mean he was there for a
long time.
So he brought, he brought inequipment, he had a studio set
up there and he was able to dosome tracks and overdubs there,
because it's it's also his life,he's a session player and plays
on.

(09:33):
Like I said, you know hitrecords and so he's in demand.
So he had a studio set up thereto keep on working.
So just finding time to getwith Danny and then, you know,
get to the point where I have agood enough track where I can go
and cut vocals, and thensometimes I will.
You know, like I did a songtitle Getting Gear, and also I

(09:57):
did a cover for the albumbecause I'm going to be
hopefully releasing an albumsoon.
I keep releasing singles andpushing the album back.
Yeah, I did a, I did a cover ofa classic rock song and I needed
real drums and so he just sentit to chris mccue who, uh, got

(10:19):
real drums.
So I mean it adds time to theprocess.
And then you want to make sureyou got everything in place
before sending it to mixing.
And I work with Sean Moffittnow for mixing and I want to
make sure he doesn't have to doany edits where it's just mixing
.
And yeah, then he will have it,you know, for a week, a week

(10:41):
and a half, depending on ifthere's or tweaks or not.
And I'm gonna touch wood withsean it's really the guy's, he's
amazing and you get the songback the first.
You know mix.
It's like, oh my god, this is,this is, this is perfect.
I mean what?
What does it need more?

(11:02):
I mean, and?
And then you?
Then you struggle to findsomething to say.
You need to tweak something.
Yeah, we've got to tweaksomething.
You do a few tweaks and thenyou get a new mix and you send
it to mastering.
Because I don't know exactlywhen things are done.
There's always an extra delayof a week or two before they can

(11:24):
get to it.

Jay Franze (11:26):
So yeah, a couple of weeks when you're working with
these guys, everybody's busy andeverybody has stuff on the
schedule.

Robby Johnson (11:32):
Oh, yeah, I mean when they're working on big
releases, big albums from majorlabels.
Yeah, I mean, they're going todo that first.

Tiffany Mason (11:43):
We'll get to your stuff they're gonna do that
first, we'll get to your stuff.
So if you've released, you knowfive songs, let's say how many
more do you have to go beforethat album is complete?

Robby Johnson (11:53):
uh, well, right now, you know, for an album, uh,
you need at least seven songsto call it an album.
Now, okay for distribution.
Under that it's an ep.
You can't, you can't call it analbum, it's not gonna it's not
gonna work.
And I have enough music torelease an album.
Uh, it's just like I said.
It's just that I write newsongs and I'm like, oh, am I

(12:17):
gonna bury this in an album?
And where it doesn't have youknow, we don't shine light to it
, and and so I'm like I'llrelease another single and
another single and I just wrotea new song and I'm excited about
it.
I'm like, oh, I gotta, I gottarelease this as a single.
So I don't know where thealbum's gonna be coming out.

Tiffany Mason (12:39):
You know how many times you perform a song before
you get tired of the song, soright now you're really excited
about it and you're recording itand you're getting ready to cut
it and mix it Right.
And then you play it a coupleof times and like you know, is
it?
50 times.
Is it a hundred times?

Robby Johnson (12:54):
Oh no, I mean, before you cut vocals I mean I
must probably sing it a couplehundred times really to, I mean
to tweak everything, everything,make sure the words come out
great, because sometimes you,you know you read the lyrics and
they're great, but sometimesyou put in a word that doesn't

(13:15):
sound too good when you sing it.
So you have to change and tweakand and, and, like I said
earlier, sometimes you get thetrack back from danny.
It's like oh my god, this needsnew lyrics, this chorus is not
as powerful as the track, so, orsometimes it's the opposite,
you have to change the energy,or because everything is tied

(13:37):
together, the melodies, theinstrumentation, and I mean
everything, the chords, thenotes.
You've got to make everythingwork together.
But I mean I don't have anysongs that I'm really, you know,
tired of.

Jay Franze (13:54):
I've got to play that one again.

Robby Johnson (13:59):
No, I don't have any.
You know, there are those songsthat you hit.
You know really high notes.
They're like why in the helldid I have to do that?

Jay Franze (14:09):
You're going to hate yourself later in life.

Robby Johnson (14:12):
Oh yeah, it's funny because this new one that
I wrote I sing it so much.
I've done a lot of driving thepast few days and I kept singing
, and singing, and singing, to apoint where my vocal cords were
really strained and I couldn'thit the high notes anymore.
I'm like what the hell's goingon?

(14:34):
I've been singing too much.
Yeah, yeah, you got to give itsome rest.

Jay Franze (14:40):
You mentioned a couple of things earlier.
I want to just touch on realquick.

Robby Johnson (14:44):
Sure.

Jay Franze (14:44):
You said you covered an old rock song.
What rock song was it.

Robby Johnson (14:48):
It was released 45 years ago by a band.
I mean, I want to keep it asurprise.

Jay Franze (14:56):
Nobody listens to this show.
Don't worry about it.

Robby Johnson (14:59):
I mean I'll give you a hint.

Jay Franze (15:02):
Yeah, do that.
Let's play a game.

Robby Johnson (15:04):
The name of the band is very easy it's four
letters.

Jay Franze (15:09):
Four letters 40 to 50 years ago.
All right, We'll work on it.

Robby Johnson (15:17):
Very easy.

Jay Franze (15:18):
All right.
The other thing you mentionedwas that you like to give the
tracks over to the mix engineerwith no, edx needed.

Robby Johnson (15:24):
Yes, very important.

Jay Franze (15:25):
So who's editing up to that point?

Robby Johnson (15:28):
A lot of it is Danny, and oftentimes I will do
some editing on my end as well.
Okay, it all depends on thesong.

Jay Franze (15:37):
So how involved do you get in that?

Robby Johnson (15:40):
Oh, I mean if, if I get overdubs you know like a
drum overdub, or you know likefiddle from Janae, or maybe
sometimes I get you know anotherelectric guitar overdub and I
just like to listen througheverything they did and

(16:01):
sometimes there are hidden gemsthat they don't know they did.
You know, at the end of therecording they just keep on
playing and sometimes they comeup with incredible stuff that
you're like, oh my god, thisneeds to be in the intro.
So you edit and you move stuffaround.
Or they did like on drums.

(16:23):
I always ask for okay, just giveme an option where it's, it's,
you know, not basic, but what adrummer would play, say you ask
any drummer, okay, here's the,the chart, you know let's do
this and here's the feel, whatthey play.
Then I'm like give me an option, you know, with different fills

(16:45):
and different groove.
And then I, I ask for you know,go crazy, do stuff you would
never do, even if it doesn'tmake any sense.
And oftentimes I will go and gothrough the versions and
oftentimes I, for the bridge, Iwill use option number three
where they go completelysomewhere else and it just lifts

(17:08):
the song and brings yousomewhere else.
You know it's not always thesame.
You know you get a differentfeel that's awesome.

Jay Franze (17:18):
I love that you do that.
I like to do things like thatmyself.
So again, we go back to you fora second.
You're editing.
Do you have your own rig atyour house then?

Robby Johnson (17:27):
yeah, I mean I, I work on pro tools and I have,
uh, I work with.
Yeah, I just do that at homeand I mean I don't track
anything.
Well, it's not true.
I mean I can do, you know, like, yeah, it's gonna be, demo.
Yeah, it's going to be yeah,it's not going to be the same
quality.
I mean, I've done some MIDIfiles, you know, like for keys

(17:50):
and stuff like that.
You can get away with it, Causethen they take their own sound
you know they have better soundsthan me and just apply the
sounds to the MIDI track.
Uh, I've done that, but Iwouldn't.

Jay Franze (18:02):
I wouldn't track vocals or instruments or guitar
in my place you could always gobuy yourself a neumann, a
vintage neumann yeah, yeah,let's mortgage the house and get
a microphone.

Robby Johnson (18:16):
I mean, those are expensive, you know, and just
to make.

Jay Franze (18:19):
When they're new, they're expensive.
When they're vintage, I don'twant to touch it.

Robby Johnson (18:24):
Yeah, yeah, and it's crazy because you know
people carry them around inthose cases, you know, and locks
Right and they don't trustanybody to fix it, because
sometimes you know they willsteal If you go to a corner.
You know, steal parts.

Jay Franze (18:45):
And yeah, you got to be be careful, don't bastardize
it now.
Miss Tiffany mentioned howoften you sing a song live
before you get sick of it, buthave you had an opportunity to
perform this song live yet?

Robby Johnson (18:59):
this one, no, no.
I haven't at Barstool's Cry.
I had the opportunity toperform it live and people just
really dug it.
They were singing along.
It's very easy.
So they were singing along whenyou get through the second
chorus.
But no, I wish.

Jay Franze (19:17):
So when's the next opportunity?

Robby Johnson (19:20):
Working hard to get out on the road, but I mean
it's tough.
It's tough Because you know Icould go out me my guitar and
just do that, you know.
But I don't want to give peoplethe full experience, so that's
why I like to go out with a fullband.
I mean, that's really reallyexpensive to get out with a full

(19:42):
band.
And I got to say people are notaware of this, but there are
some bands right now that aretouring.
They're not making any money atall they're going to be in debt
when they're done with thetouring and it's more, it's
oh yeah, it's an investment andoftentimes you know they have
backers and all that and it'slike it's like taking a risk,

(20:04):
like, okay, we're doing this,it's going to cost a lot of
money, but it's going to pay offand it's going to turn into
something bigger, but oftentimesit doesn't, unfortunately, so
it's it's very tricky to get outthere and if you don't get on
the road, is there not an optionwhere you can kind of like be

(20:24):
on the road in your general area?
Yeah, I mean that's what youtend to do.
Is you start a small, you know,touring circle in your area and
do that?
And, like I said, I've beeninto meetings the other week and
touching that and trying tomake that happen where you, I
get on the road and just becauseI miss it so much, it's the

(20:47):
best thing ever to be out thereand creating those moments with
the fans.
Oh my god, it's it's really thebest feeling every time someone
asks me you know what's yourbiggest highlight?
And it's not a particular show,but it's.
It's just when you're in themoment, live with the band, the

(21:07):
crew, the crowd, and everybodyknows that something's happening
right now.
Yeah, it's really cool.

Tiffany Mason (21:15):
Like everything else kind of fades away.

Robby Johnson (21:18):
Yeah, yeah, you got always something that isn't
working.
You're in-air monitors.
There's always something.
There's always something for'tworking.
You know you're in-ear monitors.
You know there's alwayssomething.
There's always something forsure.
Oh, something like when you doa live show.
Still, when you're in themoment, you don't care, you just
go with it and have the besttime of your life well, I know

(21:38):
you're talking about thestruggles finding the right
tours to be involved in.

Jay Franze (21:42):
When we saw you at cma, you were talking about an
upcoming opportunity that youmight have.
Is that still in the works?

Robby Johnson (21:47):
Yep, that's still in the works.
Yep, I'm still in the works.
Unfortunately, there was some,I would say, health issues that
not on my side that have slowedthings down, but it's still in
the works and, yeah, I can'twait for it to happen, I mean.
But hey, there are some thingswe don't control.

Jay Franze (22:11):
Absolutely Well.
Last question I have for you,sir what did your wife think of
the song?

Robby Johnson (22:18):
She loves it, the number one's kind of great.
Yeah, number one and loves it.
But I would say she's, she'sconstantly playing that cover
song because it's funny, becauseshe used to study at night with
the original song and now soshe loves, she loves the song,

(22:40):
but now she keeps listening to,uh, my cover and uh, she's like,
oh my god, this is so good.
Hey, I got this song.

Tiffany Mason (22:48):
That's about you know me proposing to you, you
know, rewriting it's so funnythat you say that you know uh
luke bryant's song um luke whoplayed again, that's his biggest
, that's his biggest song.

Jay Franze (23:05):
That song's awesome.

Tiffany Mason (23:06):
I tell my kids all the time and I tell my
husband I'm like I wish this ishow I met your dad.
So if I could rewrite just howI met my husband, that's how I
would rewrite it.

Jay Franze (23:18):
Yeah, my wife and I have about 15 different stories
of how things went.
I don't think any of them arereal.

Robby Johnson (23:25):
It's the same for me and my wife Because we had a
moment.
I worked at Burger King.
I got to tell this.
So I work at Burger King andthey were opening a new Burger
King, so I was getting training.
I got training to be like amanager not the top manager, but

(23:45):
manager, shift manager and thesecond week new employees come
in to get the training and Igive the training to them and
she's amongst the employees thatare coming in and I knew her
already from high school andeverything.
Sure, you did yeah, andeverything.

Jay Franze (24:01):
Sure, you did.

Robby Johnson (24:03):
Yeah.
So and the story goes that atthat time I had a girlfriend and
I'm not the kind to cheat, sonothing was going to happen.
But at one point we're emptyingthe van, you know, for the
boxes and everything, and shehas a salad box, you know, box
with salad, and I just grab itand I'm really just going for

(24:27):
the box.
But imagine what happened whenI took the box Tiffany
understands.
And she thought I did it onpurpose and to this day she
keeps saying that I did it onpurpose, even to my kids.
She's like you're dead.

Tiffany Mason (24:40):
Grab me, you need to grab me, and I'm like no, I
was going for the box.

Robby Johnson (24:45):
I swear and nobody believes me.

Tiffany Mason (24:48):
No, I don't either, and that's how it
started it's after that, afterthat moment, she started to she
liked it because, I mean, shedidn't back away, you got the
ring on it.

Robby Johnson (25:03):
So yeah, exactly but yeah, I didn't go for what
she thinks I was going for.
Lettuce thinks I was going foryeah, I was going for the
lettuce.

Jay Franze (25:14):
That sounds so wrong .

Tiffany Mason (25:16):
You're starting and you're sticking to it.

Jay Franze (25:19):
We need to stop that conversation.

Tiffany Mason (25:21):
It's just sounding wrong.
It sounds wrong.

Robby Johnson (25:26):
Oh and oh.
I know there's another story.

Jay Franze (25:29):
Tell us another story.

Robby Johnson (25:31):
Sure, I was doing a show.
It was in Eau Claire.

Jay Franze (25:35):
Wisconsin.

Robby Johnson (25:36):
Yeah, Country Jam USA.
Oh yeah, I was doing a song,one of my songs, I Ain't the Guy
.
For some reason, I forget thelyrics.
I stumble and I'm like I'm agreat guitar player and he just
chimes in and plays an epicguitar.

(25:57):
Solo for me to get back in.

Tiffany Mason (26:00):
Start again.

Robby Johnson (26:01):
You know, keep going, I keep forgetting the
words, I mess it up and I don'tknow why it happened.
But then my wife, we we'll, Idid a radio tour and sometimes
she's there and she will chimein and you know, and it's funny,
and one time she told the storyand said it was because there
were a bunch of girls in thefront row.

(26:23):
You know, like this, and youknow it was summer you know
exactly exactly I mean and shewas like he was looking down.
I was like no.
I wasn't no no, and she keepstelling that story, same thing,
and everybody believes her andno, I wasn't going for the

(26:44):
lettuce.

Jay Franze (26:44):
You stick to these stories, I'll give you a credit
I should write a song.
There's something about lettuce, something about lettuce
stories.

Tiffany Mason (26:49):
I'll give you a credit.

Robby Johnson (26:50):
I should write a song.
There's something about lettuce.

Jay Franze (26:53):
Something about lettuce.
I can only imagine the storiesmy wife tells the kids.
I don't even want to know.
Have no desire, alright, sir.
Well, thank you for joining ustonight.
I know we only have you for alimited time.
I do appreciate you being here.
Is there anything else youwould like to add before we kick
you off?

Robby Johnson (27:12):
Thanks to you guys and thanks to everybody you
guys, I can release all themusic I want.
If you don't stream it, shareit, request it and talk about it
, nothing happens.
Thank you so much.
You guys are the true rockstars that make it happen.

(27:33):
So thanks, thank you very much.

Jay Franze (27:35):
We appreciate it, sir.
Thank you for joining us, andwhen you do go back out on the
road, we're going to be thefirst ones there to see you.

Robby Johnson (27:43):
Awesome, I thought you were going to say
watch with the lettuce.

Jay Franze (27:46):
We'll be the first ones to show up with lettuce.

Tiffany Mason (27:49):
I'll be carrying the lettuce.
Please be careful.

Jay Franze (27:53):
I'm going to have t-shirts made Heads of lettuce
on them.

Robby Johnson (27:57):
Yeah, all right, thank you so much.

Jay Franze (28:00):
All right, buddy, have a good night.

Robby Johnson (28:01):
Have a good night , robbie, you too.
Bye.

Jay Franze (28:06):
Nice.

Tiffany Mason (28:07):
How was that?
Oh, he's an awesome guy, youknow.
I do have a follow-up questionfor you, jay, so he was talking
about the fiddles.
Fiddle player he was talkingabout the fiddle player.
So when we were talking toDanny last week we talked about
Chelsea, the fiddle player, andnow he's bringing up a fiddle
player.
Is the fiddle player?
Do you feel like there's aresurgence of the fiddle player

(28:30):
or because we kind of have thisresurgence of, like americana,
folk, bluegrass music?
So do you think the fiddleplayer is again making a
resurgence or a comeback, or arethey always there and we're
just the stories just happen tobe talking about fiddle players
right now.

Jay Franze (28:49):
I think they've always been there.
I don't think there's a bigresurgence of them, but I think
when we go in the studio wedon't typically hire a fiddle
player, so what we do is we hirea utility player, so somebody
who can play multipleinstruments, but they're the
instruments that you would nottypically have on every song.
So you would have a person whomight be able to play steel

(29:11):
guitar, fiddle, dobro, mandolin,and that way, whatever the song
calls for, you have thatutility player there that can
just pick up that instrument andplay.
So you're not hiring a fiddleplayer for a 10-song session who
might only play on one song.

Tiffany Mason (29:28):
Got it.
That makes so much sense, Jay.
You're like a wise old owl.

Jay Franze (29:34):
Old is right, Wise I don't know about.
And then the other thing he wastalking about, the B3, he was
talking about the separate roomfor the Leslie cabinet.

Tiffany Mason (29:42):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Jay Franze (29:44):
The Leslie cabinet.
If you're not familiar with it,it's the size of a mini fridge.
Wait, is that what that,Neumann is?
No, the.

Tiffany Mason (29:54):
Neumann is a microphone.

Jay Franze (29:55):
So, that's a microphone and the Leslie is
think of it like the speaker forthe B3.
It's like a big cabinet.
It goes in its own room so thatway the player can sit in the
room with everybody else, butthe sound is coming out of
another room that's isolated soit doesn't bleed into the other
instruments.
But that's one of the bestsounding instruments to me that
there is.
I just love the sound of a B3.

Tiffany Mason (30:18):
Ah, got it Okay.
This might be one of myfavorite episodes, just from all
the learning I love it Look atthat.
We are an educational show.
Sometimes, sometimes.
Okay, carly Pierce and RussellDickerson are going to be
hosting the AMCs.
It's going to be on August 20thin Nashville and it will

(30:40):
feature tributes from Luke Bryan, ashley McBride and big name
honorees like Jelly Roll, ofcourse, luke Combs and Eric
Church.
He's just such a nice guy.
He really is Big name honoreeslike Jelly Roll, of course, luke
Combs and Eric Church.

Jay Franze (30:50):
He's just such a nice guy.
He really is.

Tiffany Mason (30:53):
Well, another really nice guy, Luke Bryan.
Is he though, Is he a nice guy,I mean we've established that
he's kind of amazing, and evenpeople in Nashville say it.

Jay Franze (31:02):
He is a nice guy.

Tiffany Mason (31:04):
Yes.

Jay Franze (31:04):
What's his name?

Tiffany Mason (31:06):
Luke Bryan All right.
So he was in Cincinnati and heactually slid mid-song, but he
kept the show rolling.
Literally he was turning on asix-stage mishap.
It turned into a viral dancemoment that fans cannot stop
replaying.
I did not actually see this,but this also reminds me of my

(31:29):
niece and I were talking aboutthe Morgan Wallen concert.
They were all talking about itand I guess Morgan Wallen in
Arizona.
When he came out I think wecovered that he had like a
bottle thrown at him and a ballOkay, yes, a ball, that's right.
And so they were in Arizona onthe second night and he said
after last night I didn't thinkI'd ever play in Arizona again.

(31:51):
He said, but tonight the crowdhas been a lot more enjoyable
and a lot more fun.
And he was like so you guys aremaking me rethink that.
So that was interesting thatyou know it brings up this
common thread and this poor Lukeslipped on the phone.

Jay Franze (32:08):
The video looks like he was going to take a spill
but he caught it and then heturned it into a dance move.
It was a cool video.

Tiffany Mason (32:16):
And he's known for awkward dance moves anyway,
he played in Cincinnati.

Jay Franze (32:21):
It was the same venue that Cyndi Lauper played
at last week.

Tiffany Mason (32:24):
Oh nice.

Jay Franze (32:26):
So I did not get a chance to go see Luke.

Tiffany Mason (32:27):
I would have liked to but I was unable to yes
.
Yes, so I mean, at the end ofthe day, we got to remember
these are just regular people.
They're humans.
They put on their pants one legat a time, just like us.
Yeah, they have some luxuries,but they're still people with
feelings and like basic humandecency people.

Jay Franze (32:46):
I don't know how people do it with that, one leg
at a time.
I do both legs at a time.

Tiffany Mason (32:50):
Is that right?

Jay Franze (32:51):
It's like a hop, a little small little hop.

Tiffany Mason (32:54):
Okay, I'm too old to do hops.
I think if I tried to do that,I think my feet would hit the
knee and then my face would hitthe floor, I think.

Jay Franze (33:04):
Right.

Tiffany Mason (33:06):
I don't think I could do a two-leg.
Just hop right in.

Jay Franze (33:10):
No, my skinny jeans wouldn't let me do that.

Tiffany Mason (33:14):
You wear skinny jeans today?

Jay Franze (33:16):
No, can you imagine, if I did that would be?

Tiffany Mason (33:19):
horrible.

Jay Franze (33:21):
No, nobody wants to see that.

Tiffany Mason (33:22):
No, I'm kind of upset at you for putting the
vision in my brain.
I thought we were friends.

Jay Franze (33:29):
We were.

Tiffany Mason (33:32):
Okay, old Dominion needs pause for a Miss
you man emotional tribute to ayoung fan's late dad.
So during one of the tour stops, the band paused their set to
fulfill a young fan's request, asign reading Miss you man,
honoring her dad, creating aheartwarming, powerful concert
moment.
I love when artists do that.

Jay Franze (33:54):
Yeah, it's sad.

Tiffany Mason (33:56):
They just acknowledge something cool.
Yeah, miss you man Makes methink of.
You Should Be here.
That's what that makes me thinkof.
Alright, eli Young Band goesindie with new album, strange
Hours.
Heading back to their Texasroots, so they're going
independent.
For the first time in overthree years, the band embraces

(34:17):
their Texas sound once more withStrange Hours, self-released
via Unlevel Records.

Jay Franze (34:23):
I love when they say independent for the first time
in three years.
It's like three years isn'tthat long, but yeah, so the
first time in three years.
It's like three years isn'tthat long, but yeah, so the
first time in three years.
It kills me that bands that weknow of bands that have been on
the charts or sells you knowmajor records go on tour and
then they're independent Labels.
Don't want to keep them.

Tiffany Mason (34:43):
Uh-huh.

Jay Franze (34:44):
It's sad that you know.
Just like Robbie said earlier,it's about money.
You know, people are losingmoney on them.
They're not going to keepinvesting.

Tiffany Mason (34:53):
I know I feel like we got to figure out how to
turn that around, Like not meand you, Jay.

Jay Franze (34:58):
I don't think he does.
Let's do it right now Spitball.

Tiffany Mason (35:02):
All right, we're going into Mastermind people,
right?
No, get your pen and paper out.
No, I mean, it's just sad Likethey're so talented and they
take time out from their family,and they take time, even I mean
, away from their family.
Okay, I'm trying to say likethey go on the road and they
have the time that they'rerecording.
Yeah, they sacrifice a lot andI don't know, you know that song

(35:28):
video Kill the man a radio star, it's kind of like yeah, it's
kind of like streaming killedthe, the recording artist yeah,
there's a.

Jay Franze (35:37):
There's a whole bunch behind all of that which
we can get into one day.
But I know when we had DavidRay from the band Von Ray on the
show, he was talking about howthe bands that he used to
perform with, which was Creedand Nickelback and those types
of bands, he used to go on theroad with those and they're
still playing but his band isn'tGranted they stopped playing.

(36:01):
But he said they didn't havethat one breakthrough hit.
They had several songs out,they had one that was on TV
shows and stuff, but they didn'thave that one mega hit.
With the one mega hit he saidthey would have been able to go
continue touring like no longer.

Tiffany Mason (36:18):
yeah, that's disappointing how much talent
we've all missed out on becauseyeah anyways.
So mr mealy zerman's sophomorealbum Different Night, same
Radio, arrives August 8th.
The follow-up to his debut wasteased at CMA Fest and promises
more mature, introspective sound, highlighting personal

(36:41):
struggles and growth, withtracks like Coming in Cold Nice,
not coming in hot.

Jay Franze (36:47):
Not coming in hot no .

Tiffany Mason (36:49):
It's coming in cold.

Jay Franze (36:50):
It's good to see him put out his next album.
Let's see if he can keep theengagement that he had in the
first one keep the momentumgoing, so we'll see.
I like him.
So far, so good.
All right, if anybody out therewould like to go ahead and put
their comments in the commentsection, I will add them to our
list and we will go ahead and gothrough the responses to what

(37:16):
are some of the best countryvocal intros of all time, or
what are the best vocal introsof all time.
Miss Tiffany, as always, Iallow you the opportunity to go
first.
I'm going to go ahead and takethis opportunity and share.

Tiffany Mason (37:35):
I'm trying something different tonight and
I am going to go with JoshTurner when he gets ready to
start the song and he says,Maybe lock the doors and turn
the lights down low, nice, nicecall.

Jay Franze (37:48):
I did not think of that.

Tiffany Mason (37:50):
Yeah, that's a really good one, because you
know exactly what it is and he'sthe one starting it.

Jay Franze (37:55):
Nice, I like that.
That is a good call.
Thank you, all right Well.

Tiffany Mason (38:03):
J approved.

Jay Franze (38:05):
J approved.
All right, we've got a lottonight.
I'm going to start with thosein our chat room we have Kathy.

Tiffany Mason (38:12):
That is my mother , that is your mother While
you're here, Kathy.
I have a lot of questions.

Jay Franze (38:19):
I've got some questions for you.
Mom, Just go ahead and dropyour number in the chat.
I'll give you a call after this.

Tiffany Mason (38:29):
Careful, all right.

Jay Franze (38:34):
She did say Miss Kathy once again did say friends
in low places, Sarah.
Sarah says George Strait,Amarillo by morning.
Man, that comes up quite a bit.
I like it.
It's a good one.
Jake's is Dolly Parton.

Tiffany Mason (38:54):
Jolene.
Yeah, how does this one start,though?
This is all how it starts,right, the vocal and does say
vocal intro.

Jay Franze (39:03):
Now, to me, when I think of intro, I think of intro
to the song, but a lot ofpeople are taking this as intro
to the vocal itself, which Ithink makes more sense.
So just the start of the vocal.

Tiffany Mason (39:16):
Okay.

Jay Franze (39:18):
Like you said with your Josh Turner.

Tiffany Mason (39:21):
Yeah, but he starts acapella.

Jay Franze (39:23):
Yeah.

Tiffany Mason (39:24):
Yeah.

Jay Franze (39:25):
I like it, though Melissa says Randy, randy Travis
forever and ever amen a warmbaritone is pure country magic
it's true, chris says.
Garth Brooks the dance.
It is quiet and sincere.

(39:46):
It pulls you in immediately.
Thank you, chris.
Hannah I don't know if it'syour daughter, hannah quiet and
sincere, it pulls you inimmediately.

Tiffany Mason (39:54):
Thank you, Chris.
Hannah, I don't know if it'syour daughter, Hannah.
I'm going to.

Jay Franze (39:56):
Doubt it, strongly doubt it.
I'm assuming your daughterdoesn't listen, just like mine
doesn't listen, keith Whitley,when you say nothing at all
starts off with a whisper and itfeels heartfelt.

Tiffany Mason (40:09):
It's perfect.

Jay Franze (40:13):
Nice.

Tiffany Mason (40:14):
I would say the same thing, but I would have to
go with the Alison Cross version.
But, yes, agreed.

Jay Franze (40:19):
I cannot get over my time meeting her.
Ever since then I can't look ather music the same.
She's awesome, amazing talent.
But the girl is in left fieldfor sure.
So fun to be around, but she'sin left field, alright.
Mike says Reba McEntire Fancy.
I love that song.

Tiffany Mason (40:41):
I do too.
I interviewed a woman aboutthat song.

Jay Franze (40:44):
He says that Reba's storytelling comes alive right
from the first word.
I would say that is a truestatement, that Reba's
storytelling comes alive rightfrom the first word Mm-hmm.
I would say that is a truestatement, mm-hmm.

Tiffany Mason (40:53):
Yeah, that song jumps right into the storyline.

Jay Franze (40:55):
Yeah.

Tiffany Mason (40:57):
Yeah.

Jay Franze (40:59):
She's awesome.

Tiffany Mason (41:00):
I just love that commentary.
It's so true that story justlike you're in it from the first
words.

Jay Franze (41:06):
Yeah, it's a great story, Mm-hmm.
Laura says Vince Gill wheneveryou come around.
In it from the first words it'sa great story.
Laura says Vince Gill wheneveryou come around.

Tiffany Mason (41:15):
ACDC's gotta be the winner.

Jay Franze (41:19):
Ah yes, mom I guess ACDC's 40, 50 years old at this
point.

Tiffany Mason (41:25):
Maybe Kiss, but I think ACDC.

Jay Franze (41:29):
See look at your wife, his, I think, acdc.
See look at your money.

Tiffany Mason (41:31):
Because his wife likes it too.
Okay, wait a minute, we have toback up really quick.
So my mom commented and shesaid ABBA, toto, kiss, acdc and
Rush.
So sorry, we did not let thecrew members know where
Tiffany's brain was.

Jay Franze (41:50):
Nobody knows where Tiffany's brain is.

Tiffany Mason (41:52):
No, tiffany doesn't know where Tiffany's
brain is, hello.
So we're going back to whatband did he cover?
So we're spitballing?
So I don't know.
You guys weigh in on that too.
We need to know.
What do the crew members think?
I think we should do the topthree ABBA, kiss or ACDC.
No see.

Jay Franze (42:14):
I still in my head I want to go further back.

Tiffany Mason (42:18):
Well, that's a you problem.

Jay Franze (42:20):
It is.

Tiffany Mason (42:21):
Kathy took us back.

Jay Franze (42:25):
And you know what, 40 or 50 years ago, I'm just
doing that for the listeners.

Tiffany Mason (42:32):
She would never allow me to call her Kathy to
her face.

Jay Franze (42:34):
No, I wouldn't allow you to do it.
That's not right.

Tiffany Mason (42:37):
I do have a friend, and she lets her kids
call her Donna.
They would always say Mom, mom,and she would never reply.
So then they started sayingDonna, and now they always call
her Donna.

Jay Franze (42:54):
Well, to be be fair, you call me daddy's.
Make sense now.
Yeah, oh, mercy Travis, this isAlan Jackson.

Tiffany Mason (43:02):
Remember when oh so good.
Nail on the head.
Remember when the guitar comesin.

Jay Franze (43:12):
See, you're good for something.

Tiffany Mason (43:16):
Thanks.

Jay Franze (43:17):
Jenna says Chris Stapleton Tennessee Whiskey
Another song that is brought upevery week.

Tiffany Mason (43:24):
It's just so tender and memorable.
It strikes a chord with people.

Jay Franze (43:28):
I don't know where it is on this list.
I'm going to try to jump aroundhere for a minute, because we
mentioned.

Tiffany Mason (43:34):
Mike being on here every week.

Jay Franze (43:37):
Yeah, here it is.
He says, you better wait, stevePerry.
He's here every week he gets tojump to the top of the list.

Tiffany Mason (43:48):
That's right.

Jay Franze (43:50):
Carlos says Brooks and Dunn Neon Moon.
Ronnie Dunn's voice is likehoney.

Tiffany Mason (43:55):
Yep.

Jay Franze (43:58):
I love the adjectives Like honey.

Tiffany Mason (44:02):
I like that everybody is explaining to us.
Thank you.

Jay Franze (44:05):
Well, that's because you yell at them.

Tiffany Mason (44:06):
You yell at them, Jay.

Jay Franze (44:08):
Oh, I would never, I value them.
You yell at them, jay.
Oh, I would never, I value them.
Bill says Alison Krauss, I'mgoing to go with Tiffany.
Sure, you are Bill.
She's not going to call youdaddy, he says when you say
nothing at all, okay, fine.

Tiffany Mason (44:28):
That's pretty good.

Jay Franze (44:29):
Kelly says Marty Robbins El Paso.
It says the narrative startmakes me want to hear the whole
story.

Tiffany Mason (44:40):
Yeah.

Jay Franze (44:41):
Adam Shania Twain, you're still the one.

Tiffany Mason (44:47):
Oh.

Jay Franze (44:48):
I like Shania Twain.
I don't know you like ShaniaTwain, I don't.
You like Shania Twain, I don'twant to go against you, adam, or
anything, but I don't seeanything special about it.

Tiffany Mason (44:56):
Oh, come on, it's a good vocal intro.

Jay Franze (44:59):
Okay, fine, tiffany gave you.
So you get one thumbs up.
One thumb up, rachel.
Rockalooch Merle Haggard Mama.
Tried what?
Rockalooch, merle Haggard Mama.

Tiffany Mason (45:12):
Tried.
What is Rockalooch?

Jay Franze (45:14):
Rachel in Italian.

Tiffany Mason (45:17):
Oh, oh, okay, Okay, sorry, I didn't even hear
the thing now because I was likewhat's Rockalooch, what's?

Jay Franze (45:23):
Rockalooch, Rockalooch, Merle Haggard.

Tiffany Mason (45:25):
Mama Tried.
It's classic and straight tothe point, mama Tried Yep.

Jay Franze (45:32):
Craig says Tricia Yearwood, she's in love with the
boy.
Yes, she is.

Tiffany Mason (45:38):
Yeah, because it starts out telling a story and
Tricia says yeah, yeah.

Jay Franze (45:43):
All right, jay, I'm going to let you get away with
this because of your name, buthe's got a handful of options
here.
Jay says, killing me softly.

Tiffany Mason (45:56):
Oh, come on.
Yes, yes, because it starts outwith the oh.

Jay Franze (46:05):
Nice Carry on my wayward son.
That's got to be by far thenumber one of the night.

Tiffany Mason (46:13):
I don't know Josh Turner.

Jay Franze (46:16):
I like yours.
I'm just saying Carry On myWayward Son is one of the best
vocal arrangements ever.

Tiffany Mason (46:23):
Okay, I'll take your word for it.
I don't know about vocalarrangements.

Jay Franze (46:29):
I will always love you, Dolly and Whitney.

Tiffany Mason (46:33):
Mm-hmm, that was another one that came to mind, I
think.
But I was thinking it wasbecause you had just shared the
Kelly Clarkson video with me, soI was like, is that really fair
?
Is that what actually came tomy mind?
You know what?
Another one came to my mind.
Who is the?
I think it's.
Is it Luther Vandross?
My mind.

(46:54):
Who's the?
I think it's, uh, is it luthervandross or it's like vandross,
where it's like, uh, yeah, wesure got it together, baby, and
it's like the he sings like thatfor sure okay, I thought of
that one too tom says fat bottomgirl that's pretty good.
I mean, they say it and thenthey go into the song.

Jay Franze (47:14):
All right, John, he's competing with Jay now.

Tiffany Mason (47:18):
Okay.

Jay Franze (47:19):
He says, if we're going to go with vocal
arrangements, let's go withSeven Bridges Road.

Tiffany Mason (47:24):
Oh, I don't know if I know this song.

Jay Franze (47:26):
You know it, you know it for sure.
Carol just says Elvis Prespresley seven bridges road and
sue says I agree with I willalways love you.

Tiffany Mason (47:41):
She is amazing you know what I was thinking
while I was watching that is,it's impressive, like I I love,
how I love the song so much Iwant it to come at me faster,
but you, they just let all thewords simmer, you know, like
that vulnerable, almost hauntingkind of you know, and then it

(48:06):
waits forever, comes back withthe next words and waits forever
.
Like I just love it.

Jay Franze (48:12):
I agree.
Chris says I can't believeTiffany didn't say Aerosmith
Dude looks like a lady.
I think, you have fans.

Tiffany Mason (48:26):
Duh Told you.
That's why they come back.
It's me.

Jay Franze (48:31):
Nina, yeah, I completely understand that.
That's the only reason why Ikeep you around.
Notice we haven't fired youtoday.

Tiffany Mason (48:38):
I know you used to be so fire happy, don't worry
, I'm doing something right.

Jay Franze (48:44):
Oh, nina says Conway Twitty.
Hello darling.

Tiffany Mason (48:48):
See it's like Joshway Twitty Hello darling,
mmm.
See it's like Josh Turner'ssong Hello darling.

Jay Franze (48:55):
Eddie says Miranda Lambert man, she's been in the
news all this week.
How come we didn't talk abouther?
The house that built me, she'sbeen on the news all week for
showing off her hiney again.

Tiffany Mason (49:06):
Mm-hmm Again.

Jay Franze (49:09):
It happened again after Miami oh, yeah, yeah.
I'm sure she's not gonna beshowing off her hiney anytime
soon, but you know hey.
I'm glad she did I.
We get it out there.

Tiffany Mason (49:21):
I've often thought that about like well
like when Taylor Swift does allof her costume changes and some
of the dress is so short and,like Hannah now being in high
school, their cheer outfits arequite Like.
When Taylor Swift does all ofher costume changes and some of
the dresses are so short and,like Hannah now being in high
school, their cheer outfits arequite short, but most of the
girls have like little shortsunderneath.
So then it's like I mean that'sfine, but these country artists

(49:43):
, they probably need to put someshorts on underneath.

Jay Franze (49:46):
Right.

Tiffany Mason (49:47):
You got all your giblets hanging out.

Jay Franze (49:52):
Oh, that's not what I wanted to hear.
I was about to say my daughter.
I always have my daughter wearshorts under skirts or things
like that, but now you saidgiblets.
Right at the time I almost saidmy daughter.

Tiffany Mason (50:07):
You don't want our giblets hanging out.
Jay, I don't want to think mydaughter Having giblets.
Stop.

Jay Franze (50:16):
Alright, let's see what else we got.
Let's start cherry picking.

Tiffany Mason (50:19):
I'll let be our bushel full of cherries.

Jay Franze (50:21):
My bushel Kevin Says Tanya Tucker, delta Dawn.

Tiffany Mason (50:29):
Okay, I can see that.

Jay Franze (50:31):
Laurie says Tim McGraw, Don't Take the Girl.
Who would have ever thoughtsomebody would say Tim McGraw
and Best Vocal Intro?

Tiffany Mason (50:41):
But hey, it's a good song I like it.
I haven't heard that songforever.

Jay Franze (50:47):
Oh, here's a good one.
Angie says Willie Nelson Alwayson my Mind.

Robby Johnson (50:52):
Is it Always on my?

Jay Franze (50:53):
Mind or you Are.

Tiffany Mason (50:55):
Always on my Mind .
You Were.
You were always on my mind.
You were always on my mind.
Which is it?
You Were Always on my Mind.

Jay Franze (51:08):
Yes, but is that the whole title or is it Always On
my Mind?

Tiffany Mason (51:12):
I don't know.

Jay Franze (51:14):
I can't tell you to Google it.

Tiffany Mason (51:16):
No, it's on my phone with me.

Jay Franze (51:17):
Derek says, faith Hill Breathe.

Tiffany Mason (51:21):
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, trying to think of
how that one starts.
Yeah, real airy Mm-hmm.

Jay Franze (51:28):
Tina says Blake Shelton, austin, that's a good
one.

Tiffany Mason (51:33):
Oh man, I love that song.
Love that song.
This is going to be a hardepisode to replay Because I love
so many of the songs we'resaying and what I do is I listen
to our episode and then everysong that comes up I'll be like,
hey, lady in the radio, can youplay XYZ song?
And then, sure enough, it comesup, which usually leads to
another song and I'm like, okay,go back to the episode.

Jay Franze (51:52):
Go back to the episode Amber says for Trey,
trey Calloway guest last week,she's going with George Jones.
He stopped loving her.
Today, ryan says little bigtown girl crush.

Tiffany Mason (52:12):
Amen, I'm fine with that one.
I will certify that one everyday of the week.

Jay Franze (52:16):
Sophie.
Have we had a Sophie herebefore?
I like that name.
Sophie says Clint Black KillingTime.
I like Clint Black, but that'snot the song Like the Rain, oh
dear god.
I like Clint Black, but that'snot the song Like the Rain, oh
dear God.
I like that one, sophie.
We could have been right therewith each other.
We'll take that halfway.

Tiffany Mason (52:38):
I don't know if Sophie wanted to be right there
with you.
We're halfway there, Sophie.
You want to meet me the rest ofthe way Come on.
Maybe you can fix what my wifehas broken.

Jay Franze (52:50):
David says Patsy Cline Crazy.

Tiffany Mason (52:53):
Crazy yes.

Jay Franze (52:55):
Agreed.
Speaking of crazy Janice saysLuke Combs, beautiful crazy
Brian says Loretta Lynn, coalminer's daughter.
Come on, let's end it with ooh,that's a good one.
Oh, there's two good ones, wecan't end three.
Damn, you guys are bad.

(53:16):
All right Um James says.
Johnny Johnny Cash Folsomprison.

Tiffany Mason (53:22):
Oh yeah, do you notice that a lot of these are
deep voices, jay?

Jay Franze (53:26):
I do.
I see that, Speaking of deepvoices, it says Leanne Rimes
blue.
Do you think she's got a deepvoice for a female singer?

Tiffany Mason (53:40):
Yes.

Jay Franze (53:42):
Yes, I just remember the song Blue being fairly deep
.

Tiffany Mason (53:46):
Mm-hmm, I just remember trying to sing along
with her and I am more of analto and I can sing along to her
, but also some get almost whereI can't.
Well, you don't probably singalong very much, are you a
sing-alonger?

Jay Franze (54:04):
Depends If I'm by myself and nobody can hear me,
I'm sure.

Tiffany Mason (54:08):
Oh okay, I didn't know you were a closet
sing-alonger.
Well, I clearly am asing-alonger.
And do you ever notice?
Sometimes you sing along andit's so low that you can't even
hear what's coming out.
Or if you match the impression.

Jay Franze (54:21):
That's me talking in public daily.
I've gotten to a point where Idon't say things out in public
because nobody can hear me.
Or if I go to a concert or aclub somewhere or bar it and
honky-tonk something, peoplecannot hear me talk.

Tiffany Mason (54:40):
I can see that.

Jay Franze (54:41):
It's disappointing.
People need to hear what I haveto say.
I should start a talk show Allright, last two Patrick's is
Darius Rucker, Wagon Wheel.

Tiffany Mason (54:55):
You cherry-picked that one Come on.

Jay Franze (54:57):
I like Darius Rucker .
I like his voice.
His voice is not the mostvocally talented voice out there
, but I like it.
I like it.

Tiffany Mason (55:05):
I do too, I like it.

Jay Franze (55:07):
It's pleasing to listen to.
It's not the largest dynamicrange.
And then Frank Frank D.
See, frank Frank is followingthe rules, but Frank D says
Kenny Rogers the gambler.

Tiffany Mason (55:25):
Oh Okay.

Jay Franze (55:27):
And.

Tiffany Mason (55:27):
I know a Frank.

Jay Franze (55:28):
D Frank, if you want to chime in and reveal yourself
.
I would like to know if youwere the Frank D that I'm
thinking of.
But Frank D says Kenny Rogersthe Gambler.

Tiffany Mason (55:40):
I like it.

Jay Franze (55:43):
Let's talk about the charts.

Tiffany Mason (55:46):
All right, starting with number 10.

Jay Franze (55:50):
Russell Dickerson, because that's how we do it.

Tiffany Mason (55:54):
We don't start with one.

Jay Franze (55:57):
It would make so much more sense, though, if we
did.

Tiffany Mason (56:01):
Just give away the ending, Right.
So number 10 is RussellDickerson.
Happen to Me, this song is Okay.
It's got that play on wordsthat I love so much, where, like
, it's got dual meaning, butit's just, and it's taken a long
time to get to number 10, Ifeel like Well, at least he's

(56:22):
climbing.

Jay Franze (56:24):
It's his debut.

Tiffany Mason (56:26):
I suppose Mr Bailey Zimmerman is at number
nine with Backup Plan.
We just talked about BaileyZimmerman.

Jay Franze (56:33):
Now, that's the song I like.

Robby Johnson (56:35):
Yeah.

Jay Franze (56:36):
I like it.
I do, I feel like I relate toit.
I I like yeah.

Tiffany Mason (56:39):
I like it.
I do, I feel like I relate toit.
I like it.
Yeah, it's very J-esque.
Oh no, no, no.
The young kids now are sayingJ-coded.
So if something is like you,it's whatever you coded.
So it could be like Tiffanycoded or Kathy coded or J-coded.
So the Bailey Zimmerman backupplan is very J-coded.

Jay Franze (56:57):
Yeah, let's not say that it doesn't sound right.
It doesn't sound like somethingthat we should be saying.

Tiffany Mason (57:04):
Well, it's because the young kids say it.
We're not the young kids.
Oh, we're young 100 is the new50.
All right, numero ocho, jay'sfavorite number, mr Luke Bryan,
thank you for that.
That country song came on stillclimbing.
Oh no, he dropped no, he'sclimbing yeah, when you go down

(57:30):
you're climbing up gotta gottaget up to get down.
Nope, gotta gotta get down toget up.
That's what it is.
Number seven let's shut thatdown.
Number seven shibuzi, get down.
Nope, gotta gotta get down, getup.
That's what it is.
Okay, number seven, let's shutthat down.
Number seven Shaboozy Good newsFrom number eight to number
seven.
That's your favorite.
It's not my favorite, but it isa.
Really.
I mean I need some good news.

(57:53):
Do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do-do Ilike it.
Number six Thomas Rhett.
After All, the Bars Are Closedand I swear to God, the minute
we start talking about charts,this song comes into my head.
I cannot remember what it'scalled, and then we get to
whatever number he is and I'mlike, oh, that's what that song
was, that's it.
Sounds very memorable.
I don't know what's going on.

(58:13):
The song is, but I can't seemto remember.
I think I don't know the lyricsto it, so I can't remember the
name of the song.
Usually you can figure out thename of the song by the lyrics.
Oh man, that's what we gotta do.
That's what it is.
Write it down.

Jay Franze (58:26):
I just thought of something.
Go ahead, tell me your thought.

Tiffany Mason (58:29):
Okay, I'm gonna tell you my thought.
The next question of the day isgoing to be Best song that the
chorus does not allude to thetitle.
Okay, yeah, that.

Jay Franze (58:37):
That the chorus does not allude to the title.

Tiffany Mason (58:38):
Okay, yeah, that's the next question of the
day, people.

Jay Franze (58:43):
Are there a lot of those?
There might be, I don't know.
I thought of something we coulddo here in the future.
We got this top ten list.

Tiffany Mason (58:52):
Yeah.

Jay Franze (58:53):
What if you had to sing every one of the songs?

Tiffany Mason (58:57):
I could do it.

Jay Franze (58:59):
All right, never mind Bad idea Abort, abort.

Tiffany Mason (59:03):
Damn it.
Remember how they call ourjukebox carry?
I want to be jukebox Tiffany.
Hashtag goals.
Oh, that's another thing.
My niece does not want mehashtagging things anymore.
I'm not supposed to behashtagging things.

Jay Franze (59:19):
First of all, hashtags are out of fashion, to
begin with.

Tiffany Mason (59:23):
I know I'm supposed to stop hashtagging
them, but I'm old so I stillhashtag things.
Okay, number five Mr Sam Huntcountry house.
I'm so sad it's declining inpopularity.
It went from three to five.

Jay Franze (59:39):
I just like the way you say it.
Say his name again.

Tiffany Mason (59:43):
Sam Hunt.

Jay Franze (59:44):
That's not the way you said it the first time.

Tiffany Mason (59:46):
How'd I say it?

Jay Franze (59:48):
You said country.

Tiffany Mason (59:50):
Oh, Sam Hunt.
Because, I'm thinking countrynow.

Jay Franze (59:55):
Fake country.

Tiffany Mason (59:56):
Sam Hunt, Because when I'm in Iowa sometimes I
get this draw because they'revery close to Missouri.
They're 20 minutes from theMissouri border.

Jay Franze (01:00:07):
We have to pause for a minute.
Please pause.
I absolutely love your mother.
She says you are wrong.
It's always on my mind.

Tiffany Mason (01:00:17):
My mom likes to say yeah, I think Kathy could be
the new George.
I'm just saying there you go,she's on it tonight.
She is All right.
She might be the number onecrew member now.

Jay Franze (01:00:29):
Kathy, I think we got something going on.

Tiffany Mason (01:00:32):
We got a spot for you.

Jay Franze (01:00:36):
Nope, it's your mom.
I'm going to stop.
Nope, I know I almost going tostop.

Tiffany Mason (01:00:38):
Nope, I know I almost do, but nope, we're going
to keep going.

Jay Franze (01:00:41):
Number four we're going to call it Nate.

Tiffany Mason (01:00:43):
Smith, fix what you didn't break, and this one,
he's staying even sooner.

Jay Franze (01:00:48):
That seems to be my theme song these days.
Yes, it is, kathy, you want tofix my wife's?

Tiffany Mason (01:00:52):
broken.
No, no, she doesn't.

Jay Franze (01:01:00):
She's got her own thing going on.

Tiffany Mason (01:01:00):
I am sure she does.
Kathy, you can speak foryourself.
Do you want to fix what my wifehas broken?
Mom, I'm going to see youtomorrow.
Take it easy.
Okay.
So these are the top three.
I should take it more seriously.

Jay Franze (01:01:10):
The top three.
Yes, we should.
We have a very serious show.

Tiffany Mason (01:01:14):
Okay, in bronze place, tyler Hubbard with the
song Park, and this boy hasclimbed up two levels, so he
went from five to now in spotnumber three.
This is the one I always fly by.

Jay Franze (01:01:33):
All right, go ahead.

Tiffany Mason (01:01:34):
Okay, number two is Morgan Wallen.
Just In Case God, I love thissong so much I just feel like
maybe like a million people canrelate to that.
You fall in love, but you leavea little space just in case
that one person I don't know.
I just feel like that's a thing.

Jay Franze (01:01:54):
Oh my gosh, that little bit of space is like a
garage door.
At this point, kathy, come on.

Tiffany Mason (01:02:03):
All right, you guys and number one.
Oh, that's what we're doing fornumber one.

Jay Franze (01:02:11):
That wasn't the right button.

Tiffany Mason (01:02:13):
Let's try this again, say it Okay, and for
number one, josh Roth.

Jay Franze (01:02:21):
Whoa, you said it slow, so you got it right.

Tiffany Mason (01:02:25):
Oh, I had to, because I worked it out before I
even said it, because you askedfor the drumroll button and I
was like oh, now I can't justsay it, I'd overthink it there
you go, huh, two buttons Ifreaking love that song.
I'm so proud of you, Jay.

Jay Franze (01:02:45):
Don't be too proud.
I pressed the wrong one.

Tiffany Mason (01:02:49):
We got a sad trombone and number one Womp.

Jay Franze (01:02:57):
Oh, dear God it happens.

Tiffany Mason (01:03:00):
So there you have it.

Jay Franze (01:03:05):
That's the charts.
All right, my friend.

Tiffany Mason (01:03:12):
What do you got going on this week that you're
out on the road.
I am out on the road because,y'all, it's the Iowa State Fair,
okay, and we are squeaking inone last concert, one last
hoorah, before school starts.
School starts in Florida onMonday.
Hannah has to be reprising tohigh school, so she starts
school, and so I said do youwant to go see Megan Maroney?

(01:03:34):
So I finally decided, out ofall the people we were going to
see, I think we're going to hitup Miss Maroney.
See what kind of breakup she'stalking about.
There are two songs I'm reallyexcited to hear man on the Moon
and Hair Salon.
That is because man on the Moonis just funny.
And Hair Salon my sister worksin a hair salon and that story,
like I can see the music videoplaying.

(01:03:56):
There's nothing left to myimagination.
It's so vivid for me.
Yeah, those are the two songs Iwill be looking forward to the
most, but there are a couple ofother ones that I do enjoy of
hers.
But yes, hannah and I are inIowa getting ready for the Iowa
State Fair, y'all.
And if you have not been to theIowa State Fair or the
Minnesota State Fair, massiveplug for them that you should go

(01:04:18):
.
You should go attend theMinnesota State Fair.
Massive plug for them that youshould go.
You should go attend theMinnesota State Fair or the Iowa
State Fair.
You will not regret the money.

Jay Franze (01:04:25):
It's not a state fair, but I miss the Topsfield
Fair.
It was a city or town about 15,20 minutes away from where I
grew up and my father would takethe whole family there every
year.
It was just amazing.
And then later after I left,they started having some really
good musical acts come throughtown.

(01:04:46):
So I'm like, oh, that wouldhave been good.
I'd like to take my kids to thefair just so they could see
kind of the fairs that I grew upwith.

Tiffany Mason (01:04:55):
I mean you are disappointed that I didn't
invite you, but you should haveinvited your family and we could
have shown you.

Jay Franze (01:05:02):
Yes, I have to be invited.
I'm not just going to crashyour party.
I didn't want to say this, butKathy invited me.

Tiffany Mason (01:05:10):
I don't think she did she did.

Jay Franze (01:05:12):
She said we had to keep it quiet though we couldn't
tell anyone.
Sorry, kathy, I get it now Allright.
Oh, sorry, kathy, I get it nowAll right.
Well, hey, there's a bigcountry festival here in town
starting tomorrow for the nextfew days, voices of America

(01:05:33):
starts tomorrow.

Robby Johnson (01:05:36):
It's in Ohio, ohio.

Jay Franze (01:05:36):
But tomorrow's headliner is Darius Rucker.

Tiffany Mason (01:05:40):
Oh nice.

Jay Franze (01:05:42):
Billy Carrington, Carly Pierce.
But do you know who's openingup for them?
I will give you a hint it is aprevious guest of ours.
Nope, you're wrong.
It's Blake Tyler.

Tiffany Mason (01:05:58):
Nope you're wrong , it's blake tyler.
Okay, fair enough.
Fair enough, blake tyler.

Jay Franze (01:06:07):
Good good, that's what I was gonna guess I went to
see blake play over at laurie'sroadhouse.
That was a good night.
I forget the opener, but it wasanother one that's being
produced and managed by MattMcClure.

Tiffany Mason (01:06:22):
Oh, wow.

Jay Franze (01:06:25):
Friday night Carrie Underwood, shaboosie and
Parmalee.

Tiffany Mason (01:06:31):
Nice.

Jay Franze (01:06:32):
Okay, Saturday Hardy .

Tiffany Mason (01:06:36):
Oh, okay, I would like to see Shaboosie, but I
only know two songs I don't know.
I'm afraid he's going to be atwo-hit wonder.
Is there a two-hit wonderperson?

Jay Franze (01:06:46):
Well, I'm sure there is.
However, I don't think it's asaying like one hit.

Tiffany Mason (01:06:51):
Okay, okay, I think he might be a two-hit
wonder.

Jay Franze (01:06:54):
And then Sunday Bailey Zimmerman.

Tiffany Mason (01:06:59):
Oh.

Jay Franze (01:07:00):
Nate Smith.

Tiffany Mason (01:07:03):
Oh man, I'm really wanting to see Nate Smith
now.

Jay Franze (01:07:08):
Especially on my radar.
Yes, man, there's a lot ofpeople playing this festival.
That's so cool.
I'm just telling you about theheadliners, but there's going to
be 20 people here, 20 people aday.

Tiffany Mason (01:07:20):
Oh, wow.

Jay Franze (01:07:21):
Actually probably not 20.
It's probably more like 19.

Tiffany Mason (01:07:25):
No, Don't lie.

Jay Franze (01:07:27):
I don't know, I'm not going to count, but I would
like to see Carrie Underwood andI would like to see Darius
Rucker.
They're on two different nights.
I mean Bailey Zimmerman, Icould deal with the one song.

Tiffany Mason (01:07:39):
He has two other radio songs.

Jay Franze (01:07:41):
Yeah, I mean, I know the songs, I like them, but I'd
like to see Carrie Underwoodfor sure.
Right, alright, the other one Iwas going to mention to you was
the Oak Ridge Boys.

Tiffany Mason (01:07:53):
Tell me more.

Jay Franze (01:07:54):
They're coming back to the Ohio area.

Tiffany Mason (01:07:58):
Oh, the 15th maybe right.

Jay Franze (01:08:00):
I don't know, I'd have to look it up, okay, do you
want to know?
I can tell you, I have thetechnology right here in the
palm of my hand.

Tiffany Mason (01:08:10):
Oh my gosh, it's amazing.
Where'd you get that?
Technology works.

Jay Franze (01:08:14):
Oh look, they're going to be in your old neck of
the woods, minnesota.

Tiffany Mason (01:08:19):
Oh, oh look they're going to be in your old
neck of the woods, Minnesota.

Jay Franze (01:08:21):
Oh, august 16th, it is a Saturday, so that means you
can come in on Friday and youcan leave on Sunday.
Let's make it happen, okay.

Tiffany Mason (01:08:34):
Tickets bought, let me see, buy now.
Yep, okay, done, don't say it,I know alright, folks.

Jay Franze (01:08:45):
Well, we have done it.
We have reached the top, inthis case the bottom of the hour
, which does mean we havereached the end of the show.
If you've enjoyed the show,please tell a friend, and if you
have not, tell two tell two.
You can reach out to both of usover at jayfranze.
com.
We will be happy to keep theconversation going.
We can't guarantee whichconversation, but we will keep
one of them going.
Miss Tiffany, my friend, do youhave any final words for us?

Tiffany Mason (01:09:09):
Of course, crew members, we will see you later,
but keep tuning in and keepdropping those comments for us.

Jay Franze (01:09:16):
On that note, have a good night.

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