October 20, 2025 • 60 mins
The first chord hits and the room lifts. That’s the magic Robbie Johnson chases with his country-flavored take on You Shook Me All Night Long—faithful to AC/DC’s fire, sparking new life with a searing fiddle solo and tasteful B3 that make crowds throw their hands up without missing the original’s bite. We dig into how Robbie and producer Danny Rader protected the heart of the song, why restraint can be a power move in the studio, and how a great mix turns memory into momentum.
From there, we wander Nashville’s storied halls—Ryman, Union Station, RCA Victor—and trade stories about haunted spaces, legendary sessions, and the way a room shapes a record. Robbie opens up about a chilling encounter from his childhood, and we test the line between superstition and stagecraft. It’s a perfect bridge into a bigger theme: places, people, and production choices that define country music’s feel.
We also get candid about the current landscape. Alan Jackson’s farewell celebration, Clint Black’s BMI Icon moment, and the Zach Bryan effect—why raw, imperfect recordings can feel truer than polished gloss. We unpack streaming’s role in widening country’s lanes, how Luke Combs and Chris Stapleton shifted radio’s center of gravity, and why wordplay winners like Bar, None stick. The mailbag brings sharp opinions on small venues versus stadiums, the resurgence of vinyl and liner notes, and AI’s looming influence on songwriting and sound design. Through it all, we keep returning to what lasts: honest lyrics, smart arrangements, and performances built for sing-alongs you can feel in your chest.
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Jay Franze (00:45):
And we are coming back live.
I am Jay Franzi, and with metonight, the Hobbs to my Calvin,
my beautiful co-host, MissTiffany Mason.
Tiffany Mason (00:56):
That's a great costume, idea, Jay.
Jay Franze (00:58):
It is.
We can go as Calvin and Hobbes.
If you are new to the show,this is your stores for the
latest news, reviews, andinterviews.
And if you would like to joinin, comment, or fire off any
questions, please head over tojfranzie and calm.
Alright, my friend, before weget started tonight, let me tell
you about the question of theday.
The question of the day.
(01:19):
Name a song you hate to love.
Name a song you hate to love.
Do not tell me now.
Wait, we will answer that alittle later in the episode.
And if you would like to haveyour comments write off a little
later in the episode as well,please go ahead and put those in
the comment section.
Tonight we have a very specialguest.
(01:40):
I said it once.
I will say it again.
We have a very special guest.
We have a country musicrecording artist hailing from
the great state of Tennessee.
We have Robbie Johnson.
Robbie, sir, how are you?
Robby Johnson (01:53):
I'm doing great.
How's it going, guys?
Jay Franze (01:56):
I would like to point something out really
quick.
We need to give credit to MissKathy.
Last time you were here, youwould not tell us what single
you were about to release.
You had us all guessing MissKathy got it right.
Wow.
Tiffany Mason (02:11):
So Robbie, that's my mother.
So kudos the mom.
Jay Franze (02:16):
No, it is Miss Tiffany didn't get it right.
Robby Johnson (02:19):
I mean, it's it's a pretty huge song.
Jay Franze (02:23):
Well, why don't you go ahead and tell us a little
bit about your version of thatsong?
Yeah, I mean Well, first ofall, tell us what the song is.
You can tell us now.
Robby Johnson (02:31):
All right, yes.
So the song was released in uhSeptember of 1980, and it's uh
You Shook Me All Night Long fromACDC.
And it's the song by which theywant to be remembered.
That's how big the song is.
I think everybody on thisplanet has heard that song at
(02:53):
least once in their life.
You know, it's a song that ifif there's a party, you're gonna
hear that song.
You know, it's it's that typeof song.
And I was, you know, trying tofind a cover, going through
Google search, best cover songfor a male, you know, and and
looking and going through someplaylists and trying to figure
(03:16):
it out, and I couldn't find it.
I was like, oh my god, whatwhat do I do?
I want to put a cover on it.
And then I was like, wait aminute, I know a cover, I do it
live, and it's you shook me allnight long.
And people just love it becauseyou know, you're at a country
concert and you hear thatelectric guitar riff, you're
(03:38):
like, oh, what?
You shook me all night.
Really?
Wow.
And you people's eyes just openwide, the arms go up naturally,
they don't control it, they go,everybody's going crazy.
So I'm like, yeah, I love doingthat song a lot.
So why don't I just do that?
So I did that with uh myproducer buddy Danny Rader, and
(03:59):
I didn't want to reinvent thesong.
I always like to stay true tothe song, and that's what we
did.
We kept the heart and soul ofthe song, the drum pattern,
electric guitar riffs, the waythe energy, and the vocals.
And so we kept most of it andjust added a touch of country,
of country flavor to it with thefiddle, Janae Fleener's so good
(04:21):
that solo.
Wow.
You know, it's another thingyou're not expecting in the
song, and it's just whoa, wow,fiddle solo, wow, and it's it's
really good.
And also, you know, Danny addedsome V3 that you can hear in
the song, some piano, and alsothe harmonies are more a little
more country.
So we country it a little bit,but still we stayed true to the
(04:43):
original song.
Jay Franze (04:45):
Tell us what your wife thought about the song.
Robby Johnson (04:48):
Oh, she loves it, and she's playing it on repeat.
It's so funny.
And and she doesn't knowbecause she has the airpods and
she's singing along, and she'sshe's a great singer.
So it's it's always fun to seeher work and just singing along,
you know, and uh blurring itout.
So it's funny.
Tiffany Mason (05:08):
Wait, she's not she's not playing harmonies on
that with you?
Robby Johnson (05:11):
No, no.
There's a limit to whatautotune can do.
Jay Franze (05:19):
We're not looking to see you get divorced tonight.
Robby Johnson (05:22):
No, no, no, no, no, no.
She's she's she's she has areally good ear, really.
For listening, she has a agreat ear.
And sometimes, you know, I willsend her a mix and she will be
like, oh, you know what, and shehas always has some great
comments, and I take notes, andyeah, you're right.
It should have this or that,and and and and she's she's good
(05:45):
with that.
She has a good ear.
Am I safe now?
Jay Franze (05:49):
Yeah, kinda.
Not quite there, but yeah.
Robby Johnson (05:51):
I'm not out of the woods.
Jay Franze (05:53):
No, you just work on it for a little while longer
throughout the night.
Robby Johnson (05:55):
All right, all right.
Jay Franze (05:57):
So you took the song to your producer.
What did your producer say whenyou first brought it to him?
Robby Johnson (06:02):
Uh, he thought it was a great idea.
He really thought it was agreat idea.
Like me, he loves pretty muchevery genre of music, has played
many different genres of music.
He comes from a musical family,so it's part of his DNA as
well.
And he just had a blast doingit.
And even, you know, SeanMoffat, the mixer, was like,
hey, this is really cool.
(06:22):
I'm enjoying this.
Jay Franze (06:23):
All right, sir.
Well, we can't thank you enoughfor joining us.
I mean, you are welcome tostick around if you'd like.
Robby Johnson (06:29):
Yeah, I can stick around.
I love hanging out with youguys.
Jay Franze (06:34):
All right, my friend.
I did it.
I found another article for usto discuss tonight.
Tiffany Mason (06:39):
Yes.
Jay Franze (06:41):
This one seasonal, let's call it.
Robby Johnson (06:44):
Okay.
Jay Franze (06:46):
Thirteen most haunted places in country music
history.
Thirteen most haunted places incountry music history history.
Robby Johnson (06:55):
Wow.
Jay Franze (06:56):
Again, true to form, did not review in advance.
Tiffany Mason (07:00):
I would think that a bunch of spirits hang out
at the Grand Old Lobby.
Jay Franze (07:06):
I think so.
Let's see if they are on thelist, my friend.
Let's start off with number 13.
Taylor Swift's number 13.
Number 13 on this list is theFlying Saucer.
Tiffany Mason (07:19):
Have you heard of the Flying Saucer?
Jay Franze (07:21):
I have.
I've been there many times.
Flying Saucer is a venue inNashville.
It is in an old hotel.
Oh, I think I pointed it out toyou when we were there.
It's a hotel that looks like acastle, used to be a train
station.
Robby Johnson (07:35):
Oh.
Jay Franze (07:36):
It's very nice.
It's a very cool venue.
I did not notice anythinghaunting about it.
They have a lot of beer.
They have over 80 differenttypes of beer at that place.
Tiffany Mason (07:45):
Maybe it's not haunted.
Maybe people get drunk and thenthey start hallucinating and
seeing and hearing things.
Jay Franze (07:52):
It's one of those places you would go for sure.
It's like a college hangout.
Robby Johnson (07:57):
Yeah.
Jay Franze (07:57):
Bobby Max.
Bobby Max Music World.
It says Bobby Max is the mosthaunted nightclub in America.
Robby Johnson (08:07):
Really?
Tiffany Mason (08:07):
Whoa.
Jay Franze (08:08):
And a lot of creepy stories come from Bobby Max.
Tiffany Mason (08:11):
I will not be at Bobby Max at night.
Jay Franze (08:16):
Well, I don't think you'll be there any other time
either.
Number 11, Hermitage Hotel.
That's a beautiful hotel.
It is a beautiful hotel.
Five-star hotel in Nashville.
Tiffany Mason (08:29):
Ooh.
Five stars and five ghosts.
Jay Franze (08:32):
Yeah.
I've been there hundreds oftimes.
Tiffany Mason (08:35):
Never been to Nashville.
Jay Franze (08:36):
I've never experienced anything.
Tiffany Mason (08:38):
So you guys have spent a lot of time in
Nashville.
Do they have like these ghosttours?
Because they I know they havethem in Savannah.
Okay.
And they have them south of usin St.
Augustine.
Yeah.
Jay Franze (08:50):
All right.
Number 10.
Shreveport MunicipalAuditorium.
It looks creepy.
Union Station Hotel, numbernine.
That is where the flying sauceris.
So it's connected.
Never seen a ghost in UnionStation, my friend.
Number eight, Johnny CashCinnamon Hill Home.
(09:14):
Built in 1734.
Robby Johnson (09:18):
Whoa.
Yeah, there's a chance.
Jay Franze (09:21):
There's a chance it's got a little bit of
activity going on there.
Robby Johnson (09:24):
Yeah.
Yeah.
Jay Franze (09:27):
RCA Victor Recording Studios.
I have been there.
That's where Elvis recorded allhis big hits.
I get to record Elvis's bandthere.
Wow.
And we recorded on all theirold equipment that they used
back in the day.
Robby Johnson (09:40):
They were really, you know, sound engineers,
really.
Today it's more like techengineers.
Yes, they're sound engineers,but back then they they had to
know a lot about sound, how ittraveled, and how they can block
it and everything.
Jay Franze (09:54):
So when we recorded there, we were doing it as part
of the Audio EngineeringSociety, and we set it up as a
tutorial.
We brought in Elvis' band.
Robby Johnson (10:02):
Was it Paul Lyme?
Jay Franze (10:04):
He is he's amazing.
We used him in the studio alot, and he was on the show
talking about his experiencedoing the Elvis tour and stuff.
It's definitely worth listeningto.
Robby Johnson (10:15):
Oh, yeah, yeah.
Amazing drum.
Jay Franze (10:18):
Yeah.
Number six, Loretta Lynn'sRanch.
Is that the top of Creepy?
I don't know.
It's not the top of Creepy,it's number six.
Number five, Ernest TubbsRecord Shop.
I've been there several timestoo.
I've never been creeped out.
That's right, downtown onBroadway, Mr.
(10:40):
Yeah.
Tiffany Mason (10:41):
Ooh, I don't know why we didn't go.
I want to go there next year.
Jay Franze (10:46):
The Grand Old Opry Hotel.
Robby Johnson (10:49):
Oh.
Jay Franze (10:50):
Again, I've been there thousands of times and
never had a single experience.
Robby Johnson (10:55):
Sometimes it's just a feeling when you get
inside a place.
It happens sometimes.
Jay Franze (11:01):
The Gaylord Hotel, known as the most luxurious
hotel in Nashville, it is alsofilled with ghostly guests.
Tiffany Mason (11:10):
Well, they need somewhere to stay too.
Jay Franze (11:15):
Elvis Presley's Graceland comes in at number
three.
Robby Johnson (11:18):
Oh, really?
Oh.
I visited Graceland twice.
Jay Franze (11:23):
As visitors roam the halls, so do ghosts.
Number two is Tootsie's.
Robby Johnson (11:32):
Tootsies.
I've been in Tootsies.
Jay Franze (11:34):
I like Tootsies.
It's one of those places youwalk in from Broadway, you're on
the lower level.
You walk in from the alley,you're on the second level.
And that's the one where HankWilliams used to cut across from
the rhyme and in between setsand get sloshed.
So I like Tootsie's.
Right next door to Tootsie's isLegends.
Tiffany Mason (11:57):
And that's where we sat with where all the albums
were on the wall?
Yeah.
Robby Johnson (12:01):
Yep.
Tiffany Mason (12:01):
Oh.
Jay Franze (12:03):
Let's see.
And number one is the Rhyman.
Tiffany Mason (12:09):
The Rhymes.
Jay Franze (12:12):
Oh, the Ryman, also known as the Mother Church.
Robby Johnson (12:15):
Yes.
So the place I know is not onyour list.
And it's Blackbird Studios.
That's where I cut my vocals.
Yeah, I heard spooky storiesabout there's someone in there.
And one of the stories was theguy, there's like a he closes
the lights, goes down thestairs, blah blah blah, and then
(12:38):
the lights go back up.
Like, oh, I just closed thoselights.
It's kind of weird.
Or people just walking andseeing the ghost and going back
and not knowing it's a ghost.
Like, oh, I saw this person.
Like, what person?
Oh, somebody else here.
Tiffany Mason (12:55):
What?
Yeah.
Robby Johnson (12:57):
So yeah, it was kind of spooky.
It's kind of spooky.
I don't know if you have everwitnessed anything in your life
that was spooky where you can'texplain it.
No?
Jay Franze (13:07):
Never.
Tiffany Mason (13:08):
I no, sir.
Robby Johnson (13:10):
I have.
And it's really, it's it'sweird.
It's really weird.
Jay Franze (13:14):
Tell us about that.
Robby Johnson (13:16):
Okay, so I was young.
I was maybe 11, 10, 11, maybenine.
I don't know.
I don't remember.
But I was in my room.
I was just drawing.
And I started feeling like itwas very heavy, like a presence,
something that was puttingpressure on me.
It was so weird.
(13:37):
I started to be freaking out.
I was like, oh my God, what'shappening?
What's happening?
And I just turned around andthere was, you know, a plastic
bag on the floor.
And you know, like a plasticbag where it just falls.
It's like, okay, that that canhappen.
But this bag was like goinglike this and getting smaller
(13:58):
and smaller, and as if someonewas taking all the air out of
the bag.
So that was really, reallyspooky because it's not as if I
heard something move and Iturned around.
It's like, oh, this bag is no,I felt something before it
happened.
And as soon as I turned, ithappened.
It's like someone was, hey, I'mhere.
(14:20):
Like, oh my God.
And then I run, I randownstairs to my mom, and I was
good.
And it's really that housereally looked like uh like a
haunted house.
Uh I don't remember the name ofthat movie, but you know that
house that has the two windows.
Jay Franze (14:36):
Oh, yeah.
Horror movie.
Yeah, I mean, you feel horror.
Robby Johnson (14:40):
Yes, it looked exactly the same.
So when we were on the secondfloor, we felt something.
Often we would feel somethingand just run down the stairs and
be okay.
Tiffany Mason (14:50):
Robbie, I don't have socks or slippers on, and I
feel like I'm very vulnerablebecause my feet are exposed
right now.
Robby Johnson (14:57):
Oh my god, you gotta put socks.
You're you're in danger,Tiffany.
You're in danger.
Jay Franze (15:04):
If you don't have socks on, you're fine.
They're staying far away fromyou.
Robby Johnson (15:08):
And one time I was I was going home for lunch
from school, and we had this uhcassette deck with the radio,
and it had a three-way switch.
So it was a three-way switch,and my mom always listened to AM
radio.
So I get home and AM station,radio station is playing, uh,
(15:29):
everything's going normal, andthen it goes shh like, oh,
what's happening?
I had to click twice to bringit back to AM radio.
Tiffany Mason (15:39):
I mean, it's pretty the moral of the story is
don't hang out with Robbie.
Jay Franze (15:44):
Yeah, that's what I got out of the story.
Robby Johnson (15:48):
You know why your arms go up when you come to my
show?
I know why.
I know what's happening.
Jay Franze (15:57):
Oh boy.
Tiffany Mason (15:58):
Okay, well, here we go, guys.
Alan Jackson is announcing hisfarewell concert in Nashville.
He has been struggling with alittle bit of tooth disease, so
this is one last call show, acelebration of his legendary
legacy.
So that will be at NissanStadium June 27th, 2026.
Robby Johnson (16:19):
Sold out in 10 minutes.
Yeah.
Tiffany Mason (16:22):
Oh yeah.
Robby Johnson (16:23):
I was at the last roadshow in Milwaukee.
That was amazing.
Because back then we didn'tknow he was going to do the
one-off at the very last one atthe Nissan Stadium.
So I thought it was his lastshow, and it was a birthday
present from my wife.
Wow.
What a great present.
Yeah, it's I gotta say, it'sthe most beautiful present that
(16:43):
I got in years.
Tiffany Mason (16:45):
Okay.
Well, Mr.
Zach Bryan sparks Firestormwith his new song teaser.
So Bryant shared a studio clipof bad news.
So we oftentimes report aboutShabuzi with his good news.
So this is gonna be Zach Bryanwith bad news, a track critical
of ice raids and the interneterupted.
(17:05):
The teaser drew both praise andbacklash, showing how his music
is becoming a lightning rod fornational conversations.
Jay Franze (17:15):
He recorded his entire debut album just in a
series of B's.
Yeah.
He didn't go to a professionalstudio or nothing.
He just started recordingwherever he was at.
Robby Johnson (17:26):
Yeah.
It is so raw and authentic.
It's sometimes it's you canhear, you know, it's a little
out of tune.
And then I mean, so what?
He just he just let it out.
And and I guess internet andyou know, social media,
everything was so polished thatI think people are kind of fed
(17:49):
up with that.
And he was like, hey, let's doit real.
This is how it sounds when youdo it like this, without all the
artifacts and you know, the ProTools and tuning and all that.
This is how I sound, and youget the raw feeling of his
music, and people just jumpedall over.
Jay Franze (18:10):
Yeah.
It's awesome.
Tiffany Mason (18:11):
I think there's like a little bit of
vulnerability or something inhis voice in general.
Yeah.
So it's being showcased alittle bit more, maybe recording
in that manner.
Robby Johnson (18:23):
He's a modern-day poet.
He's so good.
Tiffany Mason (18:27):
Well, in the meantime, we'll move on.
Clint Black has been named 2025BMI Icon Award Honoree.
After decades of his hits likeKillin' Time, his honor cements
him as one of the country's trueelder statesmen.
I do like that song.
My parents listened to a lot ofClint Black.
Jay Franze (18:50):
Yeah, he's awesome.
He was the first artist towrite every song on his record.
Robby Johnson (18:55):
Oh, wow.
I totally respect that.
I mean, I I wish I could Icould do that.
It's I feel it's you're more ofan artist kind of thing, if if
it's your own song.
Kind of like Zach Bryant.
I mean, he writes this stuff onhis own.
Jay Franze (19:11):
That's who Andy Hall's playing with right now,
Miss Stephanie.
Andy Hull's drummer.
Oh, nice.
He was out with Lee Greenwood.
Now he's out with Clip Black.
Tiffany Mason (19:20):
Very cool.
So Blake Shelton, he admitsthat his backstage go-tos are
Tank Jr.
or Conway Twitty tracks plusvodka, right?
Zero.
And Ice.
He says the mix of old tunesand his favorite drink, quote,
gets him in the zone every time.
Robbie, do you have a pre-showroutine?
Jay Franze (19:42):
And does it include vodka?
Robby Johnson (19:46):
No, no, no, no, no, vodka.
Tiffany Mason (19:50):
No superstitions, no nothing.
Robby Johnson (19:53):
No, I like to be by myself before a show.
You know, because the band,they'll just hang out like it's
nothing, you know, and just jokearound.
And oh, time to go.
They just get up and starttuning and then just go.
Me, it's a totally differentexperience.
Jay Franze (20:10):
Like, ah, gotta get in the zone first.
Robby Johnson (20:13):
Yeah, they're you know, a lot nervous and
everything, and don't speak tome.
I mean, I gotta get in my zone.
I gotta get in my zone.
There's one thing I do, I gotake a look at the crowd.
Tiffany Mason (20:25):
I feel like that would freak me out.
I feel like that'd be a dealbreaker.
No, because the crowd down likeuh nope.
Robby Johnson (20:32):
No, I I take a look at the crowd and I just I
just kind of say to myself,okay, guys, I'm gonna do my best
for you tonight.
And I kind of know who's thepeople I need to deliver to
they're right there.
That's what I do.
That's what I do.
Tiffany Mason (20:49):
If somebody has like uh, you know, I drove
14,000 miles to see you tonight,you know, like all the little
signs that people have.
Do y'all have like littlescouts that go out there and
they're like, hey, on your leftat your three or three o'clock?
Left, yes, okay.
On your left at your threeo'clock, there's this little
girl and she's got a sign.
Make sure you, you know, giveher some attention or shout her
(21:12):
out or something.
Are there people that aregiving you guys little, you
know, heads up?
Robby Johnson (21:17):
I mean, it all depends on your production.
If you have in-ear monitors,that's something that can
happen.
And you know, talking about mywife uh witnessing my shows, she
was always in my in-ears.
Every show she's at, she'sright there, and in between
songs, she will talk to me.
And I did some shows in atheater, a theater run, uh, and
(21:40):
where I had someone who helpedme put the show together, and he
would give me cues like that,where hey, there's someone with
a sign.
It'd be nice if you would justconsider it, you know, point
added.
And so, yeah, you do havesomeone speaking.
Sometimes the band leader oryour uh monitors guy who's like,
(22:01):
check the girl in first row.
Jay Franze (22:05):
It's funny you say that.
I was gonna bring that up.
Poison was known for havingtheir roadies go out in the
crowd and find girls for them.
And they would sit there andlike they'd play drums and then
point with the drumstick, andthen the roadie would go to that
person in the audience andinvite them backstage.
Robby Johnson (22:24):
Yeah, every band does that.
No, no, I we didn't do that.
We didn't do that.
Jay Franze (22:28):
Your wife wasn't feeding you that information.
Look at the girl in the frontrow.
Robby Johnson (22:34):
Oh, I one time, because I would do uh somebody
like you, uh Keith Urban, and Iwould bring someone on stage and
bring a girl up on stage anddance and sing to her and do
that.
And uh one time I brought upthis girl, she had a cowboy hat,
but she had very uh she waskind of Dolly Parton-ish kind of
(22:59):
thing.
But I didn't notice it atfirst, but no, it it no, it
didn't after the show.
I heard about it for a longtime.
I was like, oh, you can growbecause she was, you know, she
had all these attributes.
And I'm like, I didn't know, Ididn't know, I swear to God, I
didn't, I didn't notice that.
She was just, you know, havinga great time.
I was like, oh, she's theperfect candidate.
Tiffany Mason (23:21):
Well, I will just say the last one is Lini
Wilson.
She is gearing up to host theCMA awards.
Lini joked, she can't wait tomake fun of Lake Combs.
She insists it'll be all ingood fun.
Jay Franze (23:34):
Oh 8 mil goes to Tiffany at JFranzy.com.
Tiffany Mason (23:42):
You know, I saw a thing on Instagram where she
was like, hey y'all, come in myhouse.
And she really does have thatthick of an accent.
And her house really does looklike you would think Laney
Wilson's house would look.
Like, I mean, I don't know.
I don't I guess I didn't haveanything in my mind, but when I
when she showed it, I was like,oh, this makes total sense.
(24:03):
That that looks like LaneyWilson.
Anyways, it will all be in goodfun.
I go way back with thesepeople.
I've earned the right to ribthem.
Jay Franze (24:13):
Tiffany, you're fired.
Goodbye.
Sir, question of the day todayis name a song you hate to love.
Name a song you hate to love.
Robbie, sir.
I'm gonna give you the optionto go first or last.
Robby Johnson (24:30):
Uh last.
Jay Franze (24:31):
Miss Tiffany, first or last.
Tiffany Mason (24:34):
I will go because you know, lyrics ruin a song
for me.
But what I love is pumped upkicks.
All the other kids with thepumped up kicks, you better run,
better run.
I love that song, but it'sabout Columbine.
So I'm like, something else.
(24:54):
I love that song so stupidmuch.
Jay Franze (24:56):
You're always bringing us down, Miss Tiffany.
Tiffany Mason (24:59):
I know.
All right, I know.
Your job to bring us up, Jay.
Jay Franze (25:02):
Yeah, sure.
Robby Johnson (25:03):
I hate to love.
Jay Franze (25:05):
Yeah.
All right, let's go ahead andstart with Travis.
Travis says, Cotton eye Joe.
Robby Johnson (25:12):
Yes.
Jay Franze (25:14):
He says it's not even real country.
But every wedding I've everbeen to plays that song.
Tiffany Mason (25:22):
You're doing the docy dough, and you're swinging
your partner around and aroundand enjoying that song.
Robby Johnson (25:28):
Totally.
Jay Franze (25:30):
Lindsay.
Lindsay says, Toby Keith, bearfor my horses.
Oh, come on, that's a goodsong.
Brent says, Billy Ray Cyrus,Iggy Breaky Art.
Yes, it's awful.
And yes, I dance to it everytime.
Robby Johnson (25:47):
Those are good ones, really.
Jay Franze (25:50):
Michael.
Michael's here every week, andMichael, I thank you for doing
that.
But he says, you should neverhate to love a song.
Love what you love and justlove music.
All right.
Scott says, hit me one moretime, Brittany Spears.
Tiffany Mason (26:08):
Is it that he hates to love the song or he is
too much?
He's embarrassed to like it.
Yeah.
Jay Franze (26:14):
That's what I get out of that.
All right.
Maddie.
Maddie, I don't think we've hadMaddie here before.
Maddie, thank you for joiningus.
Maddie says, Blake Shelton,Hillbilly Bone.
Tiffany Mason (26:27):
Oh, I agree with that.
Jay Franze (26:29):
Josh says, Taylor Swift, Picture to Burn.
That's a great song.
Tiffany Mason (26:35):
That's a good song.
Robby Johnson (26:36):
I mean, she's an amazing writer and she's an
artist.
She's complete.
She's so good.
So so good.
Jay Franze (26:45):
She is definitely a pop superstar for sure.
Robby Johnson (26:50):
Maybe even more than Michael Jackson.
Can you imagine?
Jay Franze (26:53):
You would never think anybody would be at that
level.
You know, between Madonna andMichael Jackson, and now you got
Taylor Swift.
That's yeah, absolutely.
I think she's right up therefor sure.
Oh yeah.
Heather says Cletus T.
Judd.
I love NASCAR.
He's a comedian singer anyway.
I don't think he takes himselfserious.
(27:14):
Robbie, not this Robbie, butthat Robbie says Toby Keith.
I want to talk about me.
Robby Johnson (27:21):
Oh yeah.
Tiffany Mason (27:24):
That's a fun song to sing along with.
Jay Franze (27:26):
Courtney says Shania Twain.
Any man of mine.
Shania Twain's awesome.
Nothing embarrassing aboutShania Twain.
Eli says Kenny Chesney, bear inMexico.
Has zero depth.
It's a party song.
Robby Johnson (27:46):
Yeah.
Jay Franze (27:47):
Tommy says Jason L.
Dean.
Jason L.
Dean, 1994.
Tiffany Mason (27:54):
No, that's a love to love.
Jay Franze (27:56):
Grace says Florida, Georgia Lion, Sundays.
Tiffany Mason (28:00):
Yeah.
I agree with that.
Jay Franze (28:03):
Nick says Kid Rock all summer long.
Robby Johnson (28:06):
I do that live.
Tiffany Mason (28:09):
Oh fun.
Jay Franze (28:11):
He says it's Sweet Home Alabama meets werewolves of
London.
Robby Johnson (28:18):
It's funny because when I do it live, I go
to Sweet Home, Alabama.
Jay Franze (28:24):
All right.
Fair enough.
Sarah, Sarah with an H saysBilly Ray Cyrus, I keep breaky
heart.
It's cheesy, but I can't helpsinging along.
Robby Johnson (28:34):
Two votes.
Jay Franze (28:35):
James says Red Solo Cup.
James is here every week.
James, thank you.
James often contributes to whatthe question of the day is.
He did not contribute to thisone.
Sorry, James.
Tonight's was delivered byLisa.
So Lisa, thank you for thequestion of the day.
Tiffany Mason (28:53):
I agree though.
A whole song devoted to our RedSolo Cup.
Jay Franze (28:57):
Still fun.
David says Florida, GeorgiaLion Cruise.
Robby Johnson (29:02):
Oh yeah.
This one is kind of a littleit's a little burnt, I guess.
Jay Franze (29:06):
That's what he says.
He says it's overplayed.
Robby Johnson (29:10):
Is it still the most streamed song in the
country song?
Jay Franze (29:16):
I did not know that.
Tiffany Mason (29:18):
Yeah, burnt for sure.
Great word.
Jay Franze (29:21):
Alright.
We've got two people now.
Emily and Miss Kathy.
Submitting Blake Shelton, boysround hair.
Tiffany Mason (29:31):
Yeah, the boys' round hair.
Jay Franze (29:40):
Chris says big and rich, save a horse.
Tiffany Mason (29:43):
I'm a fan.
Jay Franze (29:44):
Hannah with an H.
Not saying a word.
Can I, Twain?
Man, I feel like a woman.
Robby Johnson (29:52):
What?
This song could come out todayand still be a number one.
I mean, talk about a title.
A strong title.
Man, I feel like a woman.
My God.
That's that's incredible.
There's not a whole lot of songtitles.
As impactful as that.
(30:15):
Wow.
Jay Franze (30:16):
We can tie it all together.
Man I Feel Like a Woman wasproduced by Mutt Lang, one of
the best producers in the world.
Who also produced ACDC.
There you go.
Robby Johnson (30:26):
That's why the record still sounds huge.
Because there are some 90srecords that really don't sound
good at all.
Jay Franze (30:37):
Alright, Kevin says Jason Aldean Dirt Road Anthem.
Tiffany Mason (30:41):
Oh, I love that song.
Jay Franze (30:43):
Cindy.
Cindy, thank you for joining usagain.
She says Down Under because thevideo is stupid.
Robby Johnson (30:51):
Love that.
Jay Franze (30:52):
What's the band that does Down Under?
Uh Minute Work.
Kim says 8675-309.
Jenny.
That's a great song.
Tiffany Mason (31:04):
Yeah.
Jay Franze (31:06):
All right.
We are gonna end on this lastone because it's just fitting to
end here.
And Epic Roxy.
Here every week.
Thank you.
Epic Roxy.
She says ACDC Highway to Hell.
Oh, excellent guitar jams.
I don't know.
She's she's saying that, butit's excellent.
(31:27):
Miss Tiffany, your turn?
Oh, you gave one.
Tiffany Mason (31:31):
Okay, but yes, I did.
Jay Franze (31:33):
Okay, so it's Robbie's turn.
Don't steal Robbie's turn.
Tiffany Mason (31:35):
Oh yeah, I know.
I thought we were going onturn.
Robby Johnson (31:36):
I'm going last.
Jay Franze (31:38):
It's last.
It's your turn, buddy.
Robby Johnson (31:40):
Oh, you're not.
What is your pick?
Jay Franze (31:42):
What is my pick?
Robby Johnson (31:44):
Yeah.
Jay Franze (31:45):
I think I go with Michael.
I don't hate any song.
I'm willing to own my songs,but I like Taylor Swift.
I'm a Swifty.
And my kids play it around thehouse, and I would listen to
them.
I'm like, I actually like thisstuff.
It's really good.
Robby Johnson (32:03):
Me too.
I'm kind of like, if I play it,it's because I love it.
If I listen to it, it's becauseI love it.
If I don't love it, I'm I'm notgonna play it.
And and you know, country ishuge, but where I come from,
it's like nobody would say theylistened to country music.
It was like taboo to say it.
Where is it?
(32:24):
But assumed uh that's in uhQuebec.
And now it's more assumed, youknow, people are saying it
without any taboo anymore.
But back then it was like youwould be in a conversation with
someone, you wouldn't know thatthey listen to country music,
and then it would just slip, youknow, hey, you know, I listen
to Gard Brooks.
Oh, yeah, I listen to GardBrooks.
(32:45):
And you're like, oh, you likecountry music?
Yes, of course I love countrymusic, but it's not something
you would straight out of out ofthe gate say, you know, I am a
country music lover.
You know, it's it was kind oftaboo to say it.
Tiffany Mason (32:59):
It's so weird, and now you're a country music
artist.
Jay Franze (33:02):
Yeah, that's why he doesn't go home anymore.
Robby Johnson (33:05):
But so for me, I don't feel bad for listening to
songs I love.
Jay Franze (33:12):
But Michael, apparently you win tonight with
your view of we should not hateor we should not hate to love
any song.
Love to hate, hate to love.
Hate to love, hate to love.
Tiffany Mason (33:26):
That's a tricky little line there.
Jay Franze (33:28):
Yeah, I know, right?
Leave it up to a woman to comeup with a complicated question.
Tiffany Mason (33:32):
Did we say what Lisa said?
Jay Franze (33:34):
We can't leave Lisa off if she's the one who
submitted the question.
Yeah.
She says, Kenny Chesney, shethinks my tractor's sexy.
It's silly, but it makes mesmile every time.
Robby Johnson (33:46):
I thought about that one, really.
I I did.
I was thinking, oh, maybe shethinks my tractor's sexy.
I was like, oh, maybe that'sthe one.
But no, you know, if I enjoyit, I enjoy it.
And I don't hate it.
Tiffany Mason (33:58):
I think there's too much humor there.
It's so cute.
Jay Franze (34:00):
Thank you, Lisa, for the question of the day.
If you would like to submityour question of the day, you
can do that over at jfranzi.com.
Tiffany Mason (34:09):
Number 10.
Debuting with Laney Wilson,somewhere over Laredo.
I am really loving this song.
Yes.
Mm-hmm.
And ever since you told me thatthey do those bumpers.
Jay Franze (34:22):
Yeah, somewhere over Cincinnati.
Tiffany Mason (34:24):
Yeah.
I think of it every singletime, but it's a great song.
Okay, number nine, moving upfrom number 10, it's Jackson
Dean with Heavens to Betsy.
And I'm just having a reallyhard time because I really
thought it was Heaven to Betsy.
So it's plural.
Heavens to Betsy.
Oh, Heavens to Betsy.
I just'm not used to it.
Jay Franze (34:48):
All right.
Number nine, Hardy.
Tiffany Mason (34:50):
Number eight?
Jay Franze (34:53):
Oh, number eight, Hardy.
Tiffany Mason (34:56):
This is party.
Jay Franze (34:58):
Party.
Robby Johnson (34:59):
Oh.
Tiffany Mason (34:59):
Party.
It's gonna be John Party withFriday Night Heartbreaker.
Jay Franze (35:04):
First time she brought up John Party.
She was like, I seriouslythought Hardy and Party were the
same person.
She thought people were justpronouncing.
Tiffany Mason (35:12):
I thought they were like mistaking and like
taking John and just sayingHardy.
I didn't realize there wasanother guy.
So okay, number seven is gonnabe Chase Matthews with Darlin.
Why does he call you Darlin?
Jay Franze (35:29):
All right, Robbie, I got a question for you.
Yep.
I like Chase Matthew a lot.
I think he is a country boy forsure.
But as we say this is more ofthat country club style music,
do you like that or not like it?
Robby Johnson (35:48):
It depends the mood I'm in, really.
So yeah, if I'm not in themood, I don't think I would
enjoy it.
If I'm in the mood, I willtotally enjoy it.
It all depends on where I'm at,what I'm doing.
You know, that's what it is.
Yeah, there's a time and aplace.
Jay Franze (36:07):
Do you think that that style belongs in country
music?
Robby Johnson (36:11):
Oh, I think every style belongs in country music.
Really.
And I'm so happy that we havestreaming where it opened the
gates for a lot of artists outthere that were doing their
style of country music that wastotally different with that what
was on the radio.
(36:31):
And it it just opened the gatesbecause there was a time when I
first moved to Nashville, itwas really narrow.
And you have to have a sound,need it to sound like this, the
words.
Oh, you need this word, thisword, and that word in your
songs if you want to play on theradio.
And then you have streamingthat starts to you know gain
(36:53):
momentum, and you have a LukeCombs that is popular outside of
radio, has a following, peoplethat know the lyrics to his
songs, his song Hurricane isdoing great, and then he gets to
radio because of that.
And and then he comes up withIf It Rains, it pours.
(37:15):
First time I heard it on theradio, I was like, why did he
pick that single?
That's that we don't hear thaton radio, but it just blew up
and it opened the gates, really.
That was a turning point incountry radio for sure when that
song hit, because it really wastotally different.
And also Chris Stapleton, samekind of thing, where he brought
(37:37):
back the more traditional soundand really opened it up.
And then you have all these newartists that have a huge
following sell out arenas, andthey kind of forced radio to
say, okay, we got to play thisbecause people just love it.
It doesn't sound exactly theformat that we used to have that
was really narrow, 16 songs ona playlist that you rotate all
(38:02):
the time.
But it it opened everything, soit's great, and now it's so
beautiful.
You go on Spotify and you havecountry music that has influence
from the 50s, some have have aninfluence from the 60s, some
the 70s, the 80s, the 90s, andit's like you know, you can
always skip if you don't likesomething.
Tiffany Mason (38:23):
It's the same thing with social media and
comments, just keep scrolling.
You don't like it, just keepscrolling.
You don't like the song, justskip it.
Well, going back to the varietythat the 16 songs that they're
rotating between is also LukeCombs, our spot number six, with
Back in the Saddle.
And I'm okay with this onecoming on frequently.
Jay Franze (38:43):
Yes, I like that style of cool song.
We talk about that.
Tiffany Mason (38:48):
Yeah, I like that he like hits the word and then
he holds it out, and then hegoes into a couple words and he
hits another word and he holdsit out.
I like that.
Sounds cool to me.
Spot number five is good oldRuss.
Robby Johnson (39:02):
Good old Russ.
Tiffany Mason (39:04):
With happened to me, and I'm a big fan of this
because it's got an 80sreference, so I like that one.
Jordan Davis is holding steadyin spot number four with bar
none, and now I think I've gotHannah when it comes on the
radio.
We always talk about howthere's a space.
Yep, bar, comma, none.
Jay Franze (39:29):
I think that's one of the most clever songs out
right now.
Tiffany Mason (39:33):
I do too.
I love the play on words there.
Speaking of a song you hate tolove, spot number three is
Morgan Wallen with I Got Better.
When Hannah got those ticketsto Morgan Wallen and they knew
they were going, and Hannahwanted to listen to the whole
album.
We'd be on the golf cartbuzzing around, that song would
come on.
I'd be like, I just hate thissong.
I do not like this song.
(39:53):
And now I really like it.
Jay Franze (39:58):
He grows on people.
Tiffany Mason (40:00):
He does.
Spot number two is jelly rollheld and steady in spot number
two.
Wait, wait, wait.
What?
Oh.
Jay Franze (40:09):
We do the drum roll for number two here on this
show, Robbie.
Robby Johnson (40:13):
Oh, okay.
Tiffany Mason (40:15):
After sometimes we forget.
Jay Franze (40:17):
We try to do it before.
We're not very good at this,Robbie.
Leave us alone.
Tiffany Mason (40:23):
It's our first time hosting the show, so okay.
And is everybody ready for spotnumber one?
Jay Franze (40:31):
Spot number one.
Tiffany Mason (40:32):
Okay, you're never gonna believe it.
Jay Franze (40:34):
Yes, your guy finally made it.
Tiffany Mason (40:36):
Scotty McCreary has arrived with Bottle Rock.
Jay Franze (40:40):
Yes, he finally made it.
He gets a little bit ofapplause for that.
Tiffany Mason (40:48):
I've been a big fan of the song of the song.
We've watched him slowly creepup that chart.
But you know what's gonnahappen.
He's gonna be in like spot fivequick.
Yeah, that's great.
Goodbye.
Jay Franze (40:59):
The way that floor tom hits when that band first
kicks in is just awesome.
I love it every single time Ihear it.
Tiffany Mason (41:06):
Indie charts.
Spot 10 is gonna be Don't Letthe Gray Hair Fool You by Dew
West.
Spot number nine is Wish YouWouldn't Go by Ken Domish.
Domish?
Robby Johnson (41:21):
I'm friends with him.
Are you really?
Tiffany Mason (41:24):
You are.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Well, we'll tell him his ravingfans on the JFrancy show.
Robby Johnson (41:30):
I should text him right now and ask him.
Tiffany Mason (41:31):
How do you show you?
Jay Franze (41:36):
Tell him JFranzy.com and come on and tell us
himself.
Tiffany Mason (41:40):
Yeah.
We'd talk to him.
Numero 8 is Wish You Were Thereby Thompson Square.
Spender off day Jay.
Okay, spot number seven, ohhear me, miss you more by Hunter
Clark.
Jay Franze (42:00):
Right, you do miss me more.
Tiffany Mason (42:05):
Spot number six, Pontiac.
So tell me, mama, by AaronWatson.
Okay, I'm definitely going tojfrenzie.com.
I'm gonna click on episodes.
When the drop-down menu dropsdown, I'm gonna click on country
music countdown and I'm gonnacheck out jfrenzy.com slash
(42:25):
countdown.
Jay Franze (42:26):
It's pretty simple.
No need to go to the menu.
But she refuses.
Tiffany Mason (42:32):
Leave it up to a chick to complicate things.
Okay.
Spot number five is Country Boyby Randy Cobb.
And I'm a big fan of numberfour.
Yes.
Turn the Night On by ChrisKizzya.
Jay Franze (42:46):
Oh, and you pronounced it right too.
We've been butchering his namefor weeks now.
Tiffany Mason (42:55):
It's not true.
It is true.
I always pronounce everythingcorrect the first time around.
Okay.
Spot number three is I Don'tKnow How to Say Goodbye.
Bang Bang.
Boom Boom by Dwight Yoakam andPost Malone.
Jay Franze (43:08):
Robbie, have you heard that song?
Robby Johnson (43:10):
That's that's in the indie chart.
Jay Franze (43:12):
Yes.
Robby Johnson (43:14):
They're both really major artists.
Jay Franze (43:16):
Right.
Tiffany Mason (43:16):
Yeah.
Robby Johnson (43:19):
Wow.
Tiffany Mason (43:21):
And holding steady in spot number two is Red
by Jet Jergensmeyer.
Oh my goodness.
Oh no, go back.
And number two?
Jay Franze (43:32):
Oh damn.
Tiffany Mason (43:38):
Red by Jet Jergensmeyer.
Jay Franze (43:40):
Jergensmeier.
Robby Johnson (43:44):
Now you're gonna have to do this every time.
It's like we do it every time.
Jay Franze (43:48):
That's the problem.
I don't like it anymore.
I'm done with it.
She refuses to let it go.
It was funny the first 60times.
Tiffany Mason (43:59):
It's gonna be funny the next 60 times, too.
Okay, and spot number one, Jay.
Hide and gocchi by Eric V.
Betty Gord.
Jay Franze (44:09):
They only get half the applause.
All right, mailbag.
Jordan.
Jordan, thank you for your yourmessage here, your input.
If you would like to leave amessage, please head over to
jFrenzy.com or you can go tojFrenzy.com slash mailbag, or
you can just go in the shownotes and you can click on text.
Whatever works for you.
(44:30):
But Jordan says country awardshows should focus more on
songwriting than the spectacle.
I agree.
And less political.
Less political.
We discussed that a few weeksback.
That's crazy how these showsare all political these days.
Oh yeah.
All right.
(44:50):
Lindsay says we're about to seeAmericana rise the same way
that we saw all country do it inthe 90s.
Right?
That's kind of like what youwere saying earlier.
The different uh genres withincountry music itself.
All right.
Matt says too many artistschase virality instead of
(45:12):
legacy.
Robby Johnson (45:14):
Well, maybe it's because they need to pay their
mortgage trying to find a way togenerate income.
That's probably why.
Jay Franze (45:23):
Well, I can understand that if you're a new
artist, you chase it because youwant to become the big artist.
But once you're the big artist,you should probably give up on
chasing it at that point.
Robby Johnson (45:32):
And and what's crazy is the ones that do make
it big is because they neverchased it.
And oftentimes they're the onesthat just explode because
they're so authentic anddifferent and and people just
just love it.
They're original.
Jay Franze (45:49):
Ellis says this show feels more like a hangout at a
Nashville bar.
Thank you.
Robby Johnson (45:54):
Yeah, that's a compliment.
Jay Franze (45:55):
Thank you, Allah.
Erica says stadium tours areoverrated.
The best shows are in the closesmall tight venues.
She also says you need to beclose enough to see the sweat.
Tiffany Mason (46:10):
I don't know if I need to see the sweat, but I do
think like if I was looking attickets for uh I think Brandon
Lake, but they were showingthese sections that were like
behind the artist, basically.
And I thought, shame on themfor even selling the ticket.
Like nobody wants a back viewof the stage and to see all the
(46:31):
sound equipment and the guysrunning around and all that kind
of stuff.
You know, you're there to seethe artist and the band.
Jay Franze (46:37):
I I just thought it was kind of I don't know, a
little disgraceful or theyusually open that section up
like at the last minute whenpeople are begging for just to
be able to get in.
Yeah, they don't usually sellthose seats with the intent for
the audience.
Tiffany Mason (46:53):
I don't know.
That's not a seat I want.
So I like the venues that likeevery seat's a good seat.
Like when we went to the IowaState Fair, every seat's a good
seat there.
There's not a bad seat in thehouse.
Robby Johnson (47:03):
That's cool because you know, being the
artist on stage, I love to seethe people.
I do a light check, notexterior, it's kind of hard, but
when it's interior show, I do alight check to make sure that
when this show starts, I can seeeverybody.
And I just love that.
So when it's too big and youcan't really see anybody and
(47:24):
you're just pointing fingers at,oh, there's people there, you
know, just point anywhere.
Uh I'm not I gotta.
If I point somewhere, it'sbecause I see a face and a smile
and whatnot.
Jay Franze (47:35):
Have you ever played Laurie's Roadhouse?
Nope.
It's in Cincinnati.
They have a lot of big actsthat go through there.
And I enjoy going there morethan I enjoy going to some of
the bigger venues because youknow I can go in there, I can
walk around, I can, you know,have comfortable seating.
I mean, it's a nice place.
And they serve food.
Robby Johnson (47:55):
And the sound's probably better, right?
Jay Franze (47:57):
It does sound good, yeah.
Robby Johnson (47:58):
Because arena shows sometimes it's just
hardest.
You know the lyrics, so youknow when he's singing, but you
can't really hear it.
Jay Franze (48:06):
The worst is when they talk in between songs.
You can't understand a wordthey say.
Tiffany Mason (48:11):
Oh yeah, oh yeah.
You know, I'm really a big fan,so like you know, if well,
maybe you don't know, but whenyou go to church, there's
usually somewhere where you cansee the lyrics to song, right?
And I really love the lastcouple of concerts I've gone to,
they've put some lyrics up.
And like, I know the tune, I'veheard it on the radio, I'm
excited to see this person, andnow they're singing a song I
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don't really know, but I am asing-alonger, and that is what
makes the concert for me is if Ican sing along.
So if I know I'm going withenough advanced time, I'll do my
homework and try to learnlyrics for more of the songs.
But if not, like I took mydaughter to Megan Moroni, I'm
not a huge Megan Moroni fan, Iam after the concert, but it was
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really nice.
She had the words up there, soI could shout all the words with
my daughter, and we were havinga great time.
I think, I mean, Robbie, thisis a huge suggestion for you,
but lyrics, we want to singalong, you know.
It was it's just been so niceto see that.
And I'm like, oh, cool.
Now I can sing along.
Jay Franze (49:11):
Stick around long enough, and she's gonna start
telling you how to do things,Robbie.
That's just how it works.
She came on here as a guest andshe's never left.
Robby Johnson (49:23):
That's funny, but yes, the lyrics I would totally
show if you know.
Um, of course, there's a budgetinvolved, and someone who has
to follow along and make sure itfollows and everything.
But yes, totally.
I would I would definitely havelyrics up there somewhere so
that I could for me uh, youknow, just take a quick look if
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I it happens, it happens.
Makes sense to me.
Makes sense to me.
Jay Franze (49:51):
Tyler says, I leave with a new playlist every
episode.
Y'all should seriously considerputting together an official
Jay Franzi show playlist everyweek.
Tyler, go to jayfranzi.comslash countdown.
The playlist is already there,buddy.
Tiffany Mason (50:09):
I love how long it takes me to get through any
of our episodes because whateversongs we talk about, like I'll
be listening in my car and wetalk about a song, and I'm like,
I should listen to it.
I'm like, no, I'm not gonna.
And I'm like, eh, yeah, I'mgonna.
And then I ask my lady on thephone if she'll please play the
song for me, and I'm off andrunning.
So it takes me a really longtime to listen to our episodes.
Jay Franze (50:32):
Cole says we need more supergroups in country.
Yep, I agree on that.
We have one.
High Mountain Breezes.
Tiffany Mason (50:40):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Jay Franze (50:42):
High Mountain Breezes is nothing but a
supergroup.
I don't know, Robbie, if you'vehad an opportunity to hear them
yet.
Robby Johnson (50:48):
No, no, but I'm I'm curious.
Jay Franze (50:50):
They've had a couple number one hits at this point,
but they are all Nashvillesession players and Nashville
songwriters and producers andengineers, and they just got
together and they just startedputting together songs they
wanted to put together.
It's all by um Bruce Tarletsky,his brainchild.
But he uses Chris Lusinger onguitar, who is Garth Brook's
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guitar player.
Curious.
Naomi.
That's a name we have not saidyet.
Naomi.
She's like vinyl is not a fad.
It is actually the future ofwhat music should be.
That is having a physicalproduct back in your hands.
I agree.
I like having a physicalproduct.
Streaming is great, but youdon't get the credits anymore.
Well, I guess you do in Appleon some of those, but that's
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fine.
But you don't get to hold thepamphlet, you don't get to look
at the extra pictures, you don'tget to read about the studio or
any of that stuff.
Tiffany Mason (51:44):
It's like a cheap thrill, opposed to like the the
tactile holding of it and goingover it and thinking, I don't
know, like you know, you see anairplane in the air and you're
like, they could be going to afuneral, they could be going to
a wedding, they could be goingon vacation, they could be going
to see a loved one, right?
There's all thesepossibilities.
And it's the same thing whenyou look at that album and you
think like how they created it,and you know, and especially now
(52:07):
Jay knowing you, you know,diving into who produced it and
who are the people that deserveall that credit, you know.
Robby Johnson (52:14):
Yeah, it's I mean, streaming, like I said,
opened the gates and uh helped alot.
The genre and all genres.
Jay Franze (52:23):
I love the fact that you can select any song you
want to hear and you can listento it.
I love it.
Yeah.
But I still want to hold theproduct.
Robby Johnson (52:31):
Yeah, but I agree, it kind of it's not it's
a totally different experiencetoday than you know before when
you had to earn money or ask formoney to go and buy the album.
Wait, wait for it and wait inline, and sometimes you get
there, there are no more copies,and you had to go back, you
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know, the next week orsomething.
So it was a totally differentexperience, and music had so
much value.
You don't you kind of almostdon't have to pay to listen to
music.
So it's no, and uh yeah, soit's it's a totally different
experience.
And the sad part is gonna keepevolving, and you know, with AI
(53:13):
coming in and everything, uhit's it's gonna change
drastically.
Jay Franze (53:18):
Have you heard any AI songs yet?
Robby Johnson (53:21):
Yeah, there's some good songs, pretty good
ones, really pretty good songs.
I mean, the really good ones.
Yes, but it's still lyrics froma human being.
Because the ones that aretotally AI, meh, you're missing
something from the lyrics.
It's it's it's gonna get there,and it's it's scary for
(53:42):
artists.
It's uh it's it's really scary.
And people say it's not gonnabe able to generate emotions,
and that's not true.
It's it's definitely gonna beable to do all of that.
Jay Franze (53:54):
All right, James says Tiffany's laugh is the new
sound of country music.
I love it.
Tiffany Mason (54:03):
I would have to agree.
It's very melodious.
Jay Franze (54:08):
Chris said radio isn't dead.
It just needs to stoppretending it's the gatekeeper
anymore.
Robby Johnson (54:16):
Yeah.
Jay Franze (54:18):
And I'll end on this one.
Vanessa says country music isat its best when it borrows from
other genres.
Robby Johnson (54:27):
Yeah.
Jay Franze (54:29):
All right, Miss Tiffany, what you got going on
this week?
Tiffany Mason (54:32):
Well, there is a new episode out of the Link Up
Lounge.
And this weekend we are gonnago watch a parade.
So busy schedule.
Jay Franze (54:43):
Nice.
Robbie, sir, what do you gotgoing on this weekend?
Robby Johnson (54:47):
My son's friend from uh one of his old friends
that he kept from Canada isactually here right now.
He's on his fall break, and uhhe's gonna be spending time with
us.
So that's gonna be cool thisweekend.
You know, just I mean, being anartist, it's 24-7.
Right.
(55:08):
Never stop.
I got so many things on my listthat I need to do, and you
know, with the album coming andcreating content and doing all
that.
But I'll try and find sometime, you know, with the family
and enjoy some good quality timewith the family.
Jay Franze (55:24):
You said Quebec, what part?
Robby Johnson (55:26):
Right next to Quebec City, South Shore of
Quebec City.
Jay Franze (55:30):
I used to go to Montreal all the time because it
was only four hours from myhouse, and that's when you
didn't need a passport to crossthe border and any of that
stuff.
Robby Johnson (55:41):
Times change.
Jay Franze (55:42):
All right.
This past week I had anopportunity to go see the
All-American Throwbacks.
That was at Lori's Road House.
That was 90s pop punk music,was actually pretty cool.
They were a fun band.
And I'm sure I will end up backthere again this week.
They always have the best andbest acts that come through
town.
They've got Sammy Kershaw'scoming up.
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Cool.
Diamond Rio, a few others arecoming to town.
And then my wife is going outof town.
I'm sure she's already asleepand not listening, but I cannot
wait.
See, Robbie, that's how youwent over your wife right there.
You just don't.
Robby Johnson (56:21):
You wait for her to sleep.
Jay Franze (56:23):
Wait till they're asleep and say, go.
Robby Johnson (56:29):
Hey, last weekend, last weekend I went
fishing, fishing trip in uh BC,Canada.
Uh there's a huge salmon runthis year.
The rivers are crystal clear,and you can see the fish.
It's thousands and thousands ofsalmon.
I mean, it's insane, and it'sit's so much fun because they
can, you know, they can give youa good fight.
(56:50):
And uh it was a lot of fun.
Also went uh white sturgeonfishing.
Jay Franze (56:55):
Now do you keep them or throw them back?
Robby Johnson (56:57):
Uh the white sturgeon are protected, so we
can't keep.
Oh, the salmon, no, it wascatch and release, catch and
release, yeah.
And um the white sturgeon, it'sreally impressive because they
can live up to they say 200years old, even yeah, and they
grow about a feet every 10years.
(57:18):
And we caught one that wasabout seven, seven foot, so he
was about 70 years old, andbecause it's a prehistoric fish.
They don't have scales, theyhave bone plates.
It's it's really it's a veryinteresting fish.
Wow, definitely Frasier Riverin uh BC.
Tiffany Mason (57:38):
Are you saying Fraser?
Robby Johnson (57:40):
Frasier, like, not Frasier, Fraser, subtle, but
yeah, Fraser, and uh and did alittle hike where we were going
up the mountain wondering how wewould go back down.
It was, yeah, there were ropesto climb and everything.
(58:04):
I was with my kids, and we'relike, oh my god, this is cool,
but how are we gonna get down?
Jay Franze (58:11):
You hope that you make it to the top and there's
stairs going down the otherside.
Robby Johnson (58:15):
Yeah, yeah, like and at one point we were like,
we're gonna have to call in achobber.
But actually, it was it wasfairly easy to go down, and uh,
but I mean we uh we fell a fewtimes, but it was it was nice,
it was a lot of fun.
Nice air was pure.
Jay Franze (58:32):
All right, well, we have done it, we have reached
the top of the hour, top of hournumber two, which does mean we
have reached the end of theshow.
If you've enjoyed the show,please tell a friend and Miss
Tiffany if you have not.
Tiffany Mason (58:43):
Tell two.
Jay Franze (58:44):
Tell two.
You can reach out to both ofus, you can reach out to all
three of us.
We will be over at jfranzi.com.
We will answer any questionsyou have, and we'll be happy to
keep this conversation going.
Robbie, sir.
Yes, we cannot thank you enoughfor joining us tonight.
We would like to leave thefinal words to you.
Robby Johnson (59:02):
Uh thank you so much for having me on the show.
It was a lot of fun.
I really enjoyed it.
Spooky, everything.
Uh, thank you so much.
And thanks to the listeners,you know, people that are
watching and uh listening andinteracting and doing all that,
a huge thank you.
Because, you know, it's likefor an artist, uh, you can
(59:24):
release music, but if peoplelike you don't bring light to it
or people don't share it,stream it, request it, talk
about it, nothing happens.
So thank you so much, guys, forwhat you do with my music.
And uh, yeah, you guys make ithappen.
You're the rock stars, so thankyou.
Jay Franze (59:44):
Have a good night.
Thanks for listening to the JayFranzi Show.
Make sure you visit us atJFranzy.com.
Follow, connect, and say hello.
And we are coming back live.
I am Jay Franzi, and with metonight, the Hobbs to my Calvin,
my beautiful co-host, MissTiffany Mason.
Tiffany Mason (00:56):
That's a great costume, idea, Jay.
Jay Franze (00:58):
It is.
We can go as Calvin and Hobbes.
If you are new to the show,this is your stores for the
latest news, reviews, andinterviews.
And if you would like to joinin, comment, or fire off any
questions, please head over tojfranzie and calm.
Alright, my friend, before weget started tonight, let me tell
you about the question of theday.
The question of the day.
(01:19):
Name a song you hate to love.
Name a song you hate to love.
Do not tell me now.
Wait, we will answer that alittle later in the episode.
And if you would like to haveyour comments write off a little
later in the episode as well,please go ahead and put those in
the comment section.
Tonight we have a very specialguest.
(01:40):
I said it once.
I will say it again.
We have a very special guest.
We have a country musicrecording artist hailing from
the great state of Tennessee.
We have Robbie Johnson.
Robbie, sir, how are you?
Robby Johnson (01:53):
I'm doing great.
How's it going, guys?
Jay Franze (01:56):
I would like to point something out really
quick.
We need to give credit to MissKathy.
Last time you were here, youwould not tell us what single
you were about to release.
You had us all guessing MissKathy got it right.
Wow.
Tiffany Mason (02:11):
So Robbie, that's my mother.
So kudos the mom.
Jay Franze (02:16):
No, it is Miss Tiffany didn't get it right.
Robby Johnson (02:19):
I mean, it's it's a pretty huge song.
Jay Franze (02:23):
Well, why don't you go ahead and tell us a little
bit about your version of thatsong?
Yeah, I mean Well, first ofall, tell us what the song is.
You can tell us now.
Robby Johnson (02:31):
All right, yes.
So the song was released in uhSeptember of 1980, and it's uh
You Shook Me All Night Long fromACDC.
And it's the song by which theywant to be remembered.
That's how big the song is.
I think everybody on thisplanet has heard that song at
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least once in their life.
You know, it's a song that ifif there's a party, you're gonna
hear that song.
You know, it's it's that typeof song.
And I was, you know, trying tofind a cover, going through
Google search, best cover songfor a male, you know, and and
looking and going through someplaylists and trying to figure
(03:16):
it out, and I couldn't find it.
I was like, oh my god, whatwhat do I do?
I want to put a cover on it.
And then I was like, wait aminute, I know a cover, I do it
live, and it's you shook me allnight long.
And people just love it becauseyou know, you're at a country
concert and you hear thatelectric guitar riff, you're
(03:38):
like, oh, what?
You shook me all night.
Really?
Wow.
And you people's eyes just openwide, the arms go up naturally,
they don't control it, they go,everybody's going crazy.
So I'm like, yeah, I love doingthat song a lot.
So why don't I just do that?
So I did that with uh myproducer buddy Danny Rader, and
(03:59):
I didn't want to reinvent thesong.
I always like to stay true tothe song, and that's what we
did.
We kept the heart and soul ofthe song, the drum pattern,
electric guitar riffs, the waythe energy, and the vocals.
And so we kept most of it andjust added a touch of country,
of country flavor to it with thefiddle, Janae Fleener's so good
(04:21):
that solo.
Wow.
You know, it's another thingyou're not expecting in the
song, and it's just whoa, wow,fiddle solo, wow, and it's it's
really good.
And also, you know, Danny addedsome V3 that you can hear in
the song, some piano, and alsothe harmonies are more a little
more country.
So we country it a little bit,but still we stayed true to the
(04:43):
original song.
Jay Franze (04:45):
Tell us what your wife thought about the song.
Robby Johnson (04:48):
Oh, she loves it, and she's playing it on repeat.
It's so funny.
And and she doesn't knowbecause she has the airpods and
she's singing along, and she'sshe's a great singer.
So it's it's always fun to seeher work and just singing along,
you know, and uh blurring itout.
So it's funny.
Tiffany Mason (05:08):
Wait, she's not she's not playing harmonies on
that with you?
Robby Johnson (05:11):
No, no.
There's a limit to whatautotune can do.
Jay Franze (05:19):
We're not looking to see you get divorced tonight.
Robby Johnson (05:22):
No, no, no, no, no, no.
She's she's she's she has areally good ear, really.
For listening, she has a agreat ear.
And sometimes, you know, I willsend her a mix and she will be
like, oh, you know what, and shehas always has some great
comments, and I take notes, andyeah, you're right.
It should have this or that,and and and and she's she's good
(05:45):
with that.
She has a good ear.
Am I safe now?
Jay Franze (05:49):
Yeah, kinda.
Not quite there, but yeah.
Robby Johnson (05:51):
I'm not out of the woods.
Jay Franze (05:53):
No, you just work on it for a little while longer
throughout the night.
Robby Johnson (05:55):
All right, all right.
Jay Franze (05:57):
So you took the song to your producer.
What did your producer say whenyou first brought it to him?
Robby Johnson (06:02):
Uh, he thought it was a great idea.
He really thought it was agreat idea.
Like me, he loves pretty muchevery genre of music, has played
many different genres of music.
He comes from a musical family,so it's part of his DNA as
well.
And he just had a blast doingit.
And even, you know, SeanMoffat, the mixer, was like,
hey, this is really cool.
(06:22):
I'm enjoying this.
Jay Franze (06:23):
All right, sir.
Well, we can't thank you enoughfor joining us.
I mean, you are welcome tostick around if you'd like.
Robby Johnson (06:29):
Yeah, I can stick around.
I love hanging out with youguys.
Jay Franze (06:34):
All right, my friend.
I did it.
I found another article for usto discuss tonight.
Tiffany Mason (06:39):
Yes.
Jay Franze (06:41):
This one seasonal, let's call it.
Robby Johnson (06:44):
Okay.
Jay Franze (06:46):
Thirteen most haunted places in country music
history.
Thirteen most haunted places incountry music history history.
Robby Johnson (06:55):
Wow.
Jay Franze (06:56):
Again, true to form, did not review in advance.
Tiffany Mason (07:00):
I would think that a bunch of spirits hang out
at the Grand Old Lobby.
Jay Franze (07:06):
I think so.
Let's see if they are on thelist, my friend.
Let's start off with number 13.
Taylor Swift's number 13.
Number 13 on this list is theFlying Saucer.
Tiffany Mason (07:19):
Have you heard of the Flying Saucer?
Jay Franze (07:21):
I have.
I've been there many times.
Flying Saucer is a venue inNashville.
It is in an old hotel.
Oh, I think I pointed it out toyou when we were there.
It's a hotel that looks like acastle, used to be a train
station.
Robby Johnson (07:35):
Oh.
Jay Franze (07:36):
It's very nice.
It's a very cool venue.
I did not notice anythinghaunting about it.
They have a lot of beer.
They have over 80 differenttypes of beer at that place.
Tiffany Mason (07:45):
Maybe it's not haunted.
Maybe people get drunk and thenthey start hallucinating and
seeing and hearing things.
Jay Franze (07:52):
It's one of those places you would go for sure.
It's like a college hangout.
Robby Johnson (07:57):
Yeah.
Jay Franze (07:57):
Bobby Max.
Bobby Max Music World.
It says Bobby Max is the mosthaunted nightclub in America.
Robby Johnson (08:07):
Really?
Tiffany Mason (08:07):
Whoa.
Jay Franze (08:08):
And a lot of creepy stories come from Bobby Max.
Tiffany Mason (08:11):
I will not be at Bobby Max at night.
Jay Franze (08:16):
Well, I don't think you'll be there any other time
either.
Number 11, Hermitage Hotel.
That's a beautiful hotel.
It is a beautiful hotel.
Five-star hotel in Nashville.
Tiffany Mason (08:29):
Ooh.
Five stars and five ghosts.
Jay Franze (08:32):
Yeah.
I've been there hundreds oftimes.
Tiffany Mason (08:35):
Never been to Nashville.
Jay Franze (08:36):
I've never experienced anything.
Tiffany Mason (08:38):
So you guys have spent a lot of time in
Nashville.
Do they have like these ghosttours?
Because they I know they havethem in Savannah.
Okay.
And they have them south of usin St.
Augustine.
Yeah.
Jay Franze (08:50):
All right.
Number 10.
Shreveport MunicipalAuditorium.
It looks creepy.
Union Station Hotel, numbernine.
That is where the flying sauceris.
So it's connected.
Never seen a ghost in UnionStation, my friend.
Number eight, Johnny CashCinnamon Hill Home.
(09:14):
Built in 1734.
Robby Johnson (09:18):
Whoa.
Yeah, there's a chance.
Jay Franze (09:21):
There's a chance it's got a little bit of
activity going on there.
Robby Johnson (09:24):
Yeah.
Yeah.
Jay Franze (09:27):
RCA Victor Recording Studios.
I have been there.
That's where Elvis recorded allhis big hits.
I get to record Elvis's bandthere.
Wow.
And we recorded on all theirold equipment that they used
back in the day.
Robby Johnson (09:40):
They were really, you know, sound engineers,
really.
Today it's more like techengineers.
Yes, they're sound engineers,but back then they they had to
know a lot about sound, how ittraveled, and how they can block
it and everything.
Jay Franze (09:54):
So when we recorded there, we were doing it as part
of the Audio EngineeringSociety, and we set it up as a
tutorial.
We brought in Elvis' band.
Robby Johnson (10:02):
Was it Paul Lyme?
Jay Franze (10:04):
He is he's amazing.
We used him in the studio alot, and he was on the show
talking about his experiencedoing the Elvis tour and stuff.
It's definitely worth listeningto.
Robby Johnson (10:15):
Oh, yeah, yeah.
Amazing drum.
Jay Franze (10:18):
Yeah.
Number six, Loretta Lynn'sRanch.
Is that the top of Creepy?
I don't know.
It's not the top of Creepy,it's number six.
Number five, Ernest TubbsRecord Shop.
I've been there several timestoo.
I've never been creeped out.
That's right, downtown onBroadway, Mr.
(10:40):
Yeah.
Tiffany Mason (10:41):
Ooh, I don't know why we didn't go.
I want to go there next year.
Jay Franze (10:46):
The Grand Old Opry Hotel.
Robby Johnson (10:49):
Oh.
Jay Franze (10:50):
Again, I've been there thousands of times and
never had a single experience.
Robby Johnson (10:55):
Sometimes it's just a feeling when you get
inside a place.
It happens sometimes.
Jay Franze (11:01):
The Gaylord Hotel, known as the most luxurious
hotel in Nashville, it is alsofilled with ghostly guests.
Tiffany Mason (11:10):
Well, they need somewhere to stay too.
Jay Franze (11:15):
Elvis Presley's Graceland comes in at number
three.
Robby Johnson (11:18):
Oh, really?
Oh.
I visited Graceland twice.
Jay Franze (11:23):
As visitors roam the halls, so do ghosts.
Number two is Tootsie's.
Robby Johnson (11:32):
Tootsies.
I've been in Tootsies.
Jay Franze (11:34):
I like Tootsies.
It's one of those places youwalk in from Broadway, you're on
the lower level.
You walk in from the alley,you're on the second level.
And that's the one where HankWilliams used to cut across from
the rhyme and in between setsand get sloshed.
So I like Tootsie's.
Right next door to Tootsie's isLegends.
Tiffany Mason (11:57):
And that's where we sat with where all the albums
were on the wall?
Yeah.
Robby Johnson (12:01):
Yep.
Tiffany Mason (12:01):
Oh.
Jay Franze (12:03):
Let's see.
And number one is the Rhyman.
Tiffany Mason (12:09):
The Rhymes.
Jay Franze (12:12):
Oh, the Ryman, also known as the Mother Church.
Robby Johnson (12:15):
Yes.
So the place I know is not onyour list.
And it's Blackbird Studios.
That's where I cut my vocals.
Yeah, I heard spooky storiesabout there's someone in there.
And one of the stories was theguy, there's like a he closes
the lights, goes down thestairs, blah blah blah, and then
(12:38):
the lights go back up.
Like, oh, I just closed thoselights.
It's kind of weird.
Or people just walking andseeing the ghost and going back
and not knowing it's a ghost.
Like, oh, I saw this person.
Like, what person?
Oh, somebody else here.
Tiffany Mason (12:55):
What?
Yeah.
Robby Johnson (12:57):
So yeah, it was kind of spooky.
It's kind of spooky.
I don't know if you have everwitnessed anything in your life
that was spooky where you can'texplain it.
No?
Jay Franze (13:07):
Never.
Tiffany Mason (13:08):
I no, sir.
Robby Johnson (13:10):
I have.
And it's really, it's it'sweird.
It's really weird.
Jay Franze (13:14):
Tell us about that.
Robby Johnson (13:16):
Okay, so I was young.
I was maybe 11, 10, 11, maybenine.
I don't know.
I don't remember.
But I was in my room.
I was just drawing.
And I started feeling like itwas very heavy, like a presence,
something that was puttingpressure on me.
It was so weird.
(13:37):
I started to be freaking out.
I was like, oh my God, what'shappening?
What's happening?
And I just turned around andthere was, you know, a plastic
bag on the floor.
And you know, like a plasticbag where it just falls.
It's like, okay, that that canhappen.
But this bag was like goinglike this and getting smaller
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and smaller, and as if someonewas taking all the air out of
the bag.
So that was really, reallyspooky because it's not as if I
heard something move and Iturned around.
It's like, oh, this bag is no,I felt something before it
happened.
And as soon as I turned, ithappened.
It's like someone was, hey, I'mhere.
(14:20):
Like, oh my God.
And then I run, I randownstairs to my mom, and I was
good.
And it's really that housereally looked like uh like a
haunted house.
Uh I don't remember the name ofthat movie, but you know that
house that has the two windows.
Jay Franze (14:36):
Oh, yeah.
Horror movie.
Yeah, I mean, you feel horror.
Robby Johnson (14:40):
Yes, it looked exactly the same.
So when we were on the secondfloor, we felt something.
Often we would feel somethingand just run down the stairs and
be okay.
Tiffany Mason (14:50):
Robbie, I don't have socks or slippers on, and I
feel like I'm very vulnerablebecause my feet are exposed
right now.
Robby Johnson (14:57):
Oh my god, you gotta put socks.
You're you're in danger,Tiffany.
You're in danger.
Jay Franze (15:04):
If you don't have socks on, you're fine.
They're staying far away fromyou.
Robby Johnson (15:08):
And one time I was I was going home for lunch
from school, and we had this uhcassette deck with the radio,
and it had a three-way switch.
So it was a three-way switch,and my mom always listened to AM
radio.
So I get home and AM station,radio station is playing, uh,
(15:29):
everything's going normal, andthen it goes shh like, oh,
what's happening?
I had to click twice to bringit back to AM radio.
Tiffany Mason (15:39):
I mean, it's pretty the moral of the story is
don't hang out with Robbie.
Jay Franze (15:44):
Yeah, that's what I got out of the story.
Robby Johnson (15:48):
You know why your arms go up when you come to my
show?
I know why.
I know what's happening.
Jay Franze (15:57):
Oh boy.
Tiffany Mason (15:58):
Okay, well, here we go, guys.
Alan Jackson is announcing hisfarewell concert in Nashville.
He has been struggling with alittle bit of tooth disease, so
this is one last call show, acelebration of his legendary
legacy.
So that will be at NissanStadium June 27th, 2026.
Robby Johnson (16:19):
Sold out in 10 minutes.
Yeah.
Tiffany Mason (16:22):
Oh yeah.
Robby Johnson (16:23):
I was at the last roadshow in Milwaukee.
That was amazing.
Because back then we didn'tknow he was going to do the
one-off at the very last one atthe Nissan Stadium.
So I thought it was his lastshow, and it was a birthday
present from my wife.
Wow.
What a great present.
Yeah, it's I gotta say, it'sthe most beautiful present that
(16:43):
I got in years.
Tiffany Mason (16:45):
Okay.
Well, Mr.
Zach Bryan sparks Firestormwith his new song teaser.
So Bryant shared a studio clipof bad news.
So we oftentimes report aboutShabuzi with his good news.
So this is gonna be Zach Bryanwith bad news, a track critical
of ice raids and the interneterupted.
(17:05):
The teaser drew both praise andbacklash, showing how his music
is becoming a lightning rod fornational conversations.
Jay Franze (17:15):
He recorded his entire debut album just in a
series of B's.
Yeah.
He didn't go to a professionalstudio or nothing.
He just started recordingwherever he was at.
Robby Johnson (17:26):
Yeah.
It is so raw and authentic.
It's sometimes it's you canhear, you know, it's a little
out of tune.
And then I mean, so what?
He just he just let it out.
And and I guess internet andyou know, social media,
everything was so polished thatI think people are kind of fed
(17:49):
up with that.
And he was like, hey, let's doit real.
This is how it sounds when youdo it like this, without all the
artifacts and you know, the ProTools and tuning and all that.
This is how I sound, and youget the raw feeling of his
music, and people just jumpedall over.
Jay Franze (18:10):
Yeah.
It's awesome.
Tiffany Mason (18:11):
I think there's like a little bit of
vulnerability or something inhis voice in general.
Yeah.
So it's being showcased alittle bit more, maybe recording
in that manner.
Robby Johnson (18:23):
He's a modern-day poet.
He's so good.
Tiffany Mason (18:27):
Well, in the meantime, we'll move on.
Clint Black has been named 2025BMI Icon Award Honoree.
After decades of his hits likeKillin' Time, his honor cements
him as one of the country's trueelder statesmen.
I do like that song.
My parents listened to a lot ofClint Black.
Jay Franze (18:50):
Yeah, he's awesome.
He was the first artist towrite every song on his record.
Robby Johnson (18:55):
Oh, wow.
I totally respect that.
I mean, I I wish I could Icould do that.
It's I feel it's you're more ofan artist kind of thing, if if
it's your own song.
Kind of like Zach Bryant.
I mean, he writes this stuff onhis own.
Jay Franze (19:11):
That's who Andy Hall's playing with right now,
Miss Stephanie.
Andy Hull's drummer.
Oh, nice.
He was out with Lee Greenwood.
Now he's out with Clip Black.
Tiffany Mason (19:20):
Very cool.
So Blake Shelton, he admitsthat his backstage go-tos are
Tank Jr.
or Conway Twitty tracks plusvodka, right?
Zero.
And Ice.
He says the mix of old tunesand his favorite drink, quote,
gets him in the zone every time.
Robbie, do you have a pre-showroutine?
Jay Franze (19:42):
And does it include vodka?
Robby Johnson (19:46):
No, no, no, no, no, vodka.
Tiffany Mason (19:50):
No superstitions, no nothing.
Robby Johnson (19:53):
No, I like to be by myself before a show.
You know, because the band,they'll just hang out like it's
nothing, you know, and just jokearound.
And oh, time to go.
They just get up and starttuning and then just go.
Me, it's a totally differentexperience.
Jay Franze (20:10):
Like, ah, gotta get in the zone first.
Robby Johnson (20:13):
Yeah, they're you know, a lot nervous and
everything, and don't speak tome.
I mean, I gotta get in my zone.
I gotta get in my zone.
There's one thing I do, I gotake a look at the crowd.
Tiffany Mason (20:25):
I feel like that would freak me out.
I feel like that'd be a dealbreaker.
No, because the crowd down likeuh nope.
Robby Johnson (20:32):
No, I I take a look at the crowd and I just I
just kind of say to myself,okay, guys, I'm gonna do my best
for you tonight.
And I kind of know who's thepeople I need to deliver to
they're right there.
That's what I do.
That's what I do.
Tiffany Mason (20:49):
If somebody has like uh, you know, I drove
14,000 miles to see you tonight,you know, like all the little
signs that people have.
Do y'all have like littlescouts that go out there and
they're like, hey, on your leftat your three or three o'clock?
Left, yes, okay.
On your left at your threeo'clock, there's this little
girl and she's got a sign.
Make sure you, you know, giveher some attention or shout her
(21:12):
out or something.
Are there people that aregiving you guys little, you
know, heads up?
Robby Johnson (21:17):
I mean, it all depends on your production.
If you have in-ear monitors,that's something that can
happen.
And you know, talking about mywife uh witnessing my shows, she
was always in my in-ears.
Every show she's at, she'sright there, and in between
songs, she will talk to me.
And I did some shows in atheater, a theater run, uh, and
(21:40):
where I had someone who helpedme put the show together, and he
would give me cues like that,where hey, there's someone with
a sign.
It'd be nice if you would justconsider it, you know, point
added.
And so, yeah, you do havesomeone speaking.
Sometimes the band leader oryour uh monitors guy who's like,
(22:01):
check the girl in first row.
Jay Franze (22:05):
It's funny you say that.
I was gonna bring that up.
Poison was known for havingtheir roadies go out in the
crowd and find girls for them.
And they would sit there andlike they'd play drums and then
point with the drumstick, andthen the roadie would go to that
person in the audience andinvite them backstage.
Robby Johnson (22:24):
Yeah, every band does that.
No, no, I we didn't do that.
We didn't do that.
Jay Franze (22:28):
Your wife wasn't feeding you that information.
Look at the girl in the frontrow.
Robby Johnson (22:34):
Oh, I one time, because I would do uh somebody
like you, uh Keith Urban, and Iwould bring someone on stage and
bring a girl up on stage anddance and sing to her and do
that.
And uh one time I brought upthis girl, she had a cowboy hat,
but she had very uh she waskind of Dolly Parton-ish kind of
(22:59):
thing.
But I didn't notice it atfirst, but no, it it no, it
didn't after the show.
I heard about it for a longtime.
I was like, oh, you can growbecause she was, you know, she
had all these attributes.
And I'm like, I didn't know, Ididn't know, I swear to God, I
didn't, I didn't notice that.
She was just, you know, havinga great time.
I was like, oh, she's theperfect candidate.
Tiffany Mason (23:21):
Well, I will just say the last one is Lini
Wilson.
She is gearing up to host theCMA awards.
Lini joked, she can't wait tomake fun of Lake Combs.
She insists it'll be all ingood fun.
Jay Franze (23:34):
Oh 8 mil goes to Tiffany at JFranzy.com.
Tiffany Mason (23:42):
You know, I saw a thing on Instagram where she
was like, hey y'all, come in myhouse.
And she really does have thatthick of an accent.
And her house really does looklike you would think Laney
Wilson's house would look.
Like, I mean, I don't know.
I don't I guess I didn't haveanything in my mind, but when I
when she showed it, I was like,oh, this makes total sense.
(24:03):
That that looks like LaneyWilson.
Anyways, it will all be in goodfun.
I go way back with thesepeople.
I've earned the right to ribthem.
Jay Franze (24:13):
Tiffany, you're fired.
Goodbye.
Sir, question of the day todayis name a song you hate to love.
Name a song you hate to love.
Robbie, sir.
I'm gonna give you the optionto go first or last.
Robby Johnson (24:30):
Uh last.
Jay Franze (24:31):
Miss Tiffany, first or last.
Tiffany Mason (24:34):
I will go because you know, lyrics ruin a song
for me.
But what I love is pumped upkicks.
All the other kids with thepumped up kicks, you better run,
better run.
I love that song, but it'sabout Columbine.
So I'm like, something else.
(24:54):
I love that song so stupidmuch.
Jay Franze (24:56):
You're always bringing us down, Miss Tiffany.
Tiffany Mason (24:59):
I know.
All right, I know.
Your job to bring us up, Jay.
Jay Franze (25:02):
Yeah, sure.
Robby Johnson (25:03):
I hate to love.
Jay Franze (25:05):
Yeah.
All right, let's go ahead andstart with Travis.
Travis says, Cotton eye Joe.
Robby Johnson (25:12):
Yes.
Jay Franze (25:14):
He says it's not even real country.
But every wedding I've everbeen to plays that song.
Tiffany Mason (25:22):
You're doing the docy dough, and you're swinging
your partner around and aroundand enjoying that song.
Robby Johnson (25:28):
Totally.
Jay Franze (25:30):
Lindsay.
Lindsay says, Toby Keith, bearfor my horses.
Oh, come on, that's a goodsong.
Brent says, Billy Ray Cyrus,Iggy Breaky Art.
Yes, it's awful.
And yes, I dance to it everytime.
Robby Johnson (25:47):
Those are good ones, really.
Jay Franze (25:50):
Michael.
Michael's here every week, andMichael, I thank you for doing
that.
But he says, you should neverhate to love a song.
Love what you love and justlove music.
All right.
Scott says, hit me one moretime, Brittany Spears.
Tiffany Mason (26:08):
Is it that he hates to love the song or he is
too much?
He's embarrassed to like it.
Yeah.
Jay Franze (26:14):
That's what I get out of that.
All right.
Maddie.
Maddie, I don't think we've hadMaddie here before.
Maddie, thank you for joiningus.
Maddie says, Blake Shelton,Hillbilly Bone.
Tiffany Mason (26:27):
Oh, I agree with that.
Jay Franze (26:29):
Josh says, Taylor Swift, Picture to Burn.
That's a great song.
Tiffany Mason (26:35):
That's a good song.
Robby Johnson (26:36):
I mean, she's an amazing writer and she's an
artist.
She's complete.
She's so good.
So so good.
Jay Franze (26:45):
She is definitely a pop superstar for sure.
Robby Johnson (26:50):
Maybe even more than Michael Jackson.
Can you imagine?
Jay Franze (26:53):
You would never think anybody would be at that
level.
You know, between Madonna andMichael Jackson, and now you got
Taylor Swift.
That's yeah, absolutely.
I think she's right up therefor sure.
Oh yeah.
Heather says Cletus T.
Judd.
I love NASCAR.
He's a comedian singer anyway.
I don't think he takes himselfserious.
(27:14):
Robbie, not this Robbie, butthat Robbie says Toby Keith.
I want to talk about me.
Robby Johnson (27:21):
Oh yeah.
Tiffany Mason (27:24):
That's a fun song to sing along with.
Jay Franze (27:26):
Courtney says Shania Twain.
Any man of mine.
Shania Twain's awesome.
Nothing embarrassing aboutShania Twain.
Eli says Kenny Chesney, bear inMexico.
Has zero depth.
It's a party song.
Robby Johnson (27:46):
Yeah.
Jay Franze (27:47):
Tommy says Jason L.
Dean.
Jason L.
Dean, 1994.
Tiffany Mason (27:54):
No, that's a love to love.
Jay Franze (27:56):
Grace says Florida, Georgia Lion, Sundays.
Tiffany Mason (28:00):
Yeah.
I agree with that.
Jay Franze (28:03):
Nick says Kid Rock all summer long.
Robby Johnson (28:06):
I do that live.
Tiffany Mason (28:09):
Oh fun.
Jay Franze (28:11):
He says it's Sweet Home Alabama meets werewolves of
London.
Robby Johnson (28:18):
It's funny because when I do it live, I go
to Sweet Home, Alabama.
Jay Franze (28:24):
All right.
Fair enough.
Sarah, Sarah with an H saysBilly Ray Cyrus, I keep breaky
heart.
It's cheesy, but I can't helpsinging along.
Robby Johnson (28:34):
Two votes.
Jay Franze (28:35):
James says Red Solo Cup.
James is here every week.
James, thank you.
James often contributes to whatthe question of the day is.
He did not contribute to thisone.
Sorry, James.
Tonight's was delivered byLisa.
So Lisa, thank you for thequestion of the day.
Tiffany Mason (28:53):
I agree though.
A whole song devoted to our RedSolo Cup.
Jay Franze (28:57):
Still fun.
David says Florida, GeorgiaLion Cruise.
Robby Johnson (29:02):
Oh yeah.
This one is kind of a littleit's a little burnt, I guess.
Jay Franze (29:06):
That's what he says.
He says it's overplayed.
Robby Johnson (29:10):
Is it still the most streamed song in the
country song?
Jay Franze (29:16):
I did not know that.
Tiffany Mason (29:18):
Yeah, burnt for sure.
Great word.
Jay Franze (29:21):
Alright.
We've got two people now.
Emily and Miss Kathy.
Submitting Blake Shelton, boysround hair.
Tiffany Mason (29:31):
Yeah, the boys' round hair.
Jay Franze (29:40):
Chris says big and rich, save a horse.
Tiffany Mason (29:43):
I'm a fan.
Jay Franze (29:44):
Hannah with an H.
Not saying a word.
Can I, Twain?
Man, I feel like a woman.
Robby Johnson (29:52):
What?
This song could come out todayand still be a number one.
I mean, talk about a title.
A strong title.
Man, I feel like a woman.
My God.
That's that's incredible.
There's not a whole lot of songtitles.
As impactful as that.
(30:15):
Wow.
Jay Franze (30:16):
We can tie it all together.
Man I Feel Like a Woman wasproduced by Mutt Lang, one of
the best producers in the world.
Who also produced ACDC.
There you go.
Robby Johnson (30:26):
That's why the record still sounds huge.
Because there are some 90srecords that really don't sound
good at all.
Jay Franze (30:37):
Alright, Kevin says Jason Aldean Dirt Road Anthem.
Tiffany Mason (30:41):
Oh, I love that song.
Jay Franze (30:43):
Cindy.
Cindy, thank you for joining usagain.
She says Down Under because thevideo is stupid.
Robby Johnson (30:51):
Love that.
Jay Franze (30:52):
What's the band that does Down Under?
Uh Minute Work.
Kim says 8675-309.
Jenny.
That's a great song.
Tiffany Mason (31:04):
Yeah.
Jay Franze (31:06):
All right.
We are gonna end on this lastone because it's just fitting to
end here.
And Epic Roxy.
Here every week.
Thank you.
Epic Roxy.
She says ACDC Highway to Hell.
Oh, excellent guitar jams.
I don't know.
She's she's saying that, butit's excellent.
(31:27):
Miss Tiffany, your turn?
Oh, you gave one.
Tiffany Mason (31:31):
Okay, but yes, I did.
Jay Franze (31:33):
Okay, so it's Robbie's turn.
Don't steal Robbie's turn.
Tiffany Mason (31:35):
Oh yeah, I know.
I thought we were going onturn.
Robby Johnson (31:36):
I'm going last.
Jay Franze (31:38):
It's last.
It's your turn, buddy.
Robby Johnson (31:40):
Oh, you're not.
What is your pick?
Jay Franze (31:42):
What is my pick?
Robby Johnson (31:44):
Yeah.
Jay Franze (31:45):
I think I go with Michael.
I don't hate any song.
I'm willing to own my songs,but I like Taylor Swift.
I'm a Swifty.
And my kids play it around thehouse, and I would listen to
them.
I'm like, I actually like thisstuff.
It's really good.
Robby Johnson (32:03):
Me too.
I'm kind of like, if I play it,it's because I love it.
If I listen to it, it's becauseI love it.
If I don't love it, I'm I'm notgonna play it.
And and you know, country ishuge, but where I come from,
it's like nobody would say theylistened to country music.
It was like taboo to say it.
Where is it?
(32:24):
But assumed uh that's in uhQuebec.
And now it's more assumed, youknow, people are saying it
without any taboo anymore.
But back then it was like youwould be in a conversation with
someone, you wouldn't know thatthey listen to country music,
and then it would just slip, youknow, hey, you know, I listen
to Gard Brooks.
Oh, yeah, I listen to GardBrooks.
(32:45):
And you're like, oh, you likecountry music?
Yes, of course I love countrymusic, but it's not something
you would straight out of out ofthe gate say, you know, I am a
country music lover.
You know, it's it was kind oftaboo to say it.
Tiffany Mason (32:59):
It's so weird, and now you're a country music
artist.
Jay Franze (33:02):
Yeah, that's why he doesn't go home anymore.
Robby Johnson (33:05):
But so for me, I don't feel bad for listening to
songs I love.
Jay Franze (33:12):
But Michael, apparently you win tonight with
your view of we should not hateor we should not hate to love
any song.
Love to hate, hate to love.
Hate to love, hate to love.
Tiffany Mason (33:26):
That's a tricky little line there.
Jay Franze (33:28):
Yeah, I know, right?
Leave it up to a woman to comeup with a complicated question.
Tiffany Mason (33:32):
Did we say what Lisa said?
Jay Franze (33:34):
We can't leave Lisa off if she's the one who
submitted the question.
Yeah.
She says, Kenny Chesney, shethinks my tractor's sexy.
It's silly, but it makes mesmile every time.
Robby Johnson (33:46):
I thought about that one, really.
I I did.
I was thinking, oh, maybe shethinks my tractor's sexy.
I was like, oh, maybe that'sthe one.
But no, you know, if I enjoyit, I enjoy it.
And I don't hate it.
Tiffany Mason (33:58):
I think there's too much humor there.
It's so cute.
Jay Franze (34:00):
Thank you, Lisa, for the question of the day.
If you would like to submityour question of the day, you
can do that over at jfranzi.com.
Tiffany Mason (34:09):
Number 10.
Debuting with Laney Wilson,somewhere over Laredo.
I am really loving this song.
Yes.
Mm-hmm.
And ever since you told me thatthey do those bumpers.
Jay Franze (34:22):
Yeah, somewhere over Cincinnati.
Tiffany Mason (34:24):
Yeah.
I think of it every singletime, but it's a great song.
Okay, number nine, moving upfrom number 10, it's Jackson
Dean with Heavens to Betsy.
And I'm just having a reallyhard time because I really
thought it was Heaven to Betsy.
So it's plural.
Heavens to Betsy.
Oh, Heavens to Betsy.
I just'm not used to it.
Jay Franze (34:48):
All right.
Number nine, Hardy.
Tiffany Mason (34:50):
Number eight?
Jay Franze (34:53):
Oh, number eight, Hardy.
Tiffany Mason (34:56):
This is party.
Jay Franze (34:58):
Party.
Robby Johnson (34:59):
Oh.
Tiffany Mason (34:59):
Party.
It's gonna be John Party withFriday Night Heartbreaker.
Jay Franze (35:04):
First time she brought up John Party.
She was like, I seriouslythought Hardy and Party were the
same person.
She thought people were justpronouncing.
Tiffany Mason (35:12):
I thought they were like mistaking and like
taking John and just sayingHardy.
I didn't realize there wasanother guy.
So okay, number seven is gonnabe Chase Matthews with Darlin.
Why does he call you Darlin?
Jay Franze (35:29):
All right, Robbie, I got a question for you.
Yep.
I like Chase Matthew a lot.
I think he is a country boy forsure.
But as we say this is more ofthat country club style music,
do you like that or not like it?
Robby Johnson (35:48):
It depends the mood I'm in, really.
So yeah, if I'm not in themood, I don't think I would
enjoy it.
If I'm in the mood, I willtotally enjoy it.
It all depends on where I'm at,what I'm doing.
You know, that's what it is.
Yeah, there's a time and aplace.
Jay Franze (36:07):
Do you think that that style belongs in country
music?
Robby Johnson (36:11):
Oh, I think every style belongs in country music.
Really.
And I'm so happy that we havestreaming where it opened the
gates for a lot of artists outthere that were doing their
style of country music that wastotally different with that what
was on the radio.
(36:31):
And it it just opened the gatesbecause there was a time when I
first moved to Nashville, itwas really narrow.
And you have to have a sound,need it to sound like this, the
words.
Oh, you need this word, thisword, and that word in your
songs if you want to play on theradio.
And then you have streamingthat starts to you know gain
(36:53):
momentum, and you have a LukeCombs that is popular outside of
radio, has a following, peoplethat know the lyrics to his
songs, his song Hurricane isdoing great, and then he gets to
radio because of that.
And and then he comes up withIf It Rains, it pours.
(37:15):
First time I heard it on theradio, I was like, why did he
pick that single?
That's that we don't hear thaton radio, but it just blew up
and it opened the gates, really.
That was a turning point incountry radio for sure when that
song hit, because it really wastotally different.
And also Chris Stapleton, samekind of thing, where he brought
(37:37):
back the more traditional soundand really opened it up.
And then you have all these newartists that have a huge
following sell out arenas, andthey kind of forced radio to
say, okay, we got to play thisbecause people just love it.
It doesn't sound exactly theformat that we used to have that
was really narrow, 16 songs ona playlist that you rotate all
(38:02):
the time.
But it it opened everything, soit's great, and now it's so
beautiful.
You go on Spotify and you havecountry music that has influence
from the 50s, some have have aninfluence from the 60s, some
the 70s, the 80s, the 90s, andit's like you know, you can
always skip if you don't likesomething.
Tiffany Mason (38:23):
It's the same thing with social media and
comments, just keep scrolling.
You don't like it, just keepscrolling.
You don't like the song, justskip it.
Well, going back to the varietythat the 16 songs that they're
rotating between is also LukeCombs, our spot number six, with
Back in the Saddle.
And I'm okay with this onecoming on frequently.
Jay Franze (38:43):
Yes, I like that style of cool song.
We talk about that.
Tiffany Mason (38:48):
Yeah, I like that he like hits the word and then
he holds it out, and then hegoes into a couple words and he
hits another word and he holdsit out.
I like that.
Sounds cool to me.
Spot number five is good oldRuss.
Robby Johnson (39:02):
Good old Russ.
Tiffany Mason (39:04):
With happened to me, and I'm a big fan of this
because it's got an 80sreference, so I like that one.
Jordan Davis is holding steadyin spot number four with bar
none, and now I think I've gotHannah when it comes on the
radio.
We always talk about howthere's a space.
Yep, bar, comma, none.
Jay Franze (39:29):
I think that's one of the most clever songs out
right now.
Tiffany Mason (39:33):
I do too.
I love the play on words there.
Speaking of a song you hate tolove, spot number three is
Morgan Wallen with I Got Better.
When Hannah got those ticketsto Morgan Wallen and they knew
they were going, and Hannahwanted to listen to the whole
album.
We'd be on the golf cartbuzzing around, that song would
come on.
I'd be like, I just hate thissong.
I do not like this song.
(39:53):
And now I really like it.
Jay Franze (39:58):
He grows on people.
Tiffany Mason (40:00):
He does.
Spot number two is jelly rollheld and steady in spot number
two.
Wait, wait, wait.
What?
Oh.
Jay Franze (40:09):
We do the drum roll for number two here on this
show, Robbie.
Robby Johnson (40:13):
Oh, okay.
Tiffany Mason (40:15):
After sometimes we forget.
Jay Franze (40:17):
We try to do it before.
We're not very good at this,Robbie.
Leave us alone.
Tiffany Mason (40:23):
It's our first time hosting the show, so okay.
And is everybody ready for spotnumber one?
Jay Franze (40:31):
Spot number one.
Tiffany Mason (40:32):
Okay, you're never gonna believe it.
Jay Franze (40:34):
Yes, your guy finally made it.
Tiffany Mason (40:36):
Scotty McCreary has arrived with Bottle Rock.
Jay Franze (40:40):
Yes, he finally made it.
He gets a little bit ofapplause for that.
Tiffany Mason (40:48):
I've been a big fan of the song of the song.
We've watched him slowly creepup that chart.
But you know what's gonnahappen.
He's gonna be in like spot fivequick.
Yeah, that's great.
Goodbye.
Jay Franze (40:59):
The way that floor tom hits when that band first
kicks in is just awesome.
I love it every single time Ihear it.
Tiffany Mason (41:06):
Indie charts.
Spot 10 is gonna be Don't Letthe Gray Hair Fool You by Dew
West.
Spot number nine is Wish YouWouldn't Go by Ken Domish.
Domish?
Robby Johnson (41:21):
I'm friends with him.
Are you really?
Tiffany Mason (41:24):
You are.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Well, we'll tell him his ravingfans on the JFrancy show.
Robby Johnson (41:30):
I should text him right now and ask him.
Tiffany Mason (41:31):
How do you show you?
Jay Franze (41:36):
Tell him JFranzy.com and come on and tell us
himself.
Tiffany Mason (41:40):
Yeah.
We'd talk to him.
Numero 8 is Wish You Were Thereby Thompson Square.
Spender off day Jay.
Okay, spot number seven, ohhear me, miss you more by Hunter
Clark.
Jay Franze (42:00):
Right, you do miss me more.
Tiffany Mason (42:05):
Spot number six, Pontiac.
So tell me, mama, by AaronWatson.
Okay, I'm definitely going tojfrenzie.com.
I'm gonna click on episodes.
When the drop-down menu dropsdown, I'm gonna click on country
music countdown and I'm gonnacheck out jfrenzy.com slash
(42:25):
countdown.
Jay Franze (42:26):
It's pretty simple.
No need to go to the menu.
But she refuses.
Tiffany Mason (42:32):
Leave it up to a chick to complicate things.
Okay.
Spot number five is Country Boyby Randy Cobb.
And I'm a big fan of numberfour.
Yes.
Turn the Night On by ChrisKizzya.
Jay Franze (42:46):
Oh, and you pronounced it right too.
We've been butchering his namefor weeks now.
Tiffany Mason (42:55):
It's not true.
It is true.
I always pronounce everythingcorrect the first time around.
Okay.
Spot number three is I Don'tKnow How to Say Goodbye.
Bang Bang.
Boom Boom by Dwight Yoakam andPost Malone.
Jay Franze (43:08):
Robbie, have you heard that song?
Robby Johnson (43:10):
That's that's in the indie chart.
Jay Franze (43:12):
Yes.
Robby Johnson (43:14):
They're both really major artists.
Jay Franze (43:16):
Right.
Tiffany Mason (43:16):
Yeah.
Robby Johnson (43:19):
Wow.
Tiffany Mason (43:21):
And holding steady in spot number two is Red
by Jet Jergensmeyer.
Oh my goodness.
Oh no, go back.
And number two?
Jay Franze (43:32):
Oh damn.
Tiffany Mason (43:38):
Red by Jet Jergensmeyer.
Jay Franze (43:40):
Jergensmeier.
Robby Johnson (43:44):
Now you're gonna have to do this every time.
It's like we do it every time.
Jay Franze (43:48):
That's the problem.
I don't like it anymore.
I'm done with it.
She refuses to let it go.
It was funny the first 60times.
Tiffany Mason (43:59):
It's gonna be funny the next 60 times, too.
Okay, and spot number one, Jay.
Hide and gocchi by Eric V.
Betty Gord.
Jay Franze (44:09):
They only get half the applause.
All right, mailbag.
Jordan.
Jordan, thank you for your yourmessage here, your input.
If you would like to leave amessage, please head over to
jFrenzy.com or you can go tojFrenzy.com slash mailbag, or
you can just go in the shownotes and you can click on text.
Whatever works for you.
(44:30):
But Jordan says country awardshows should focus more on
songwriting than the spectacle.
I agree.
And less political.
Less political.
We discussed that a few weeksback.
That's crazy how these showsare all political these days.
Oh yeah.
All right.
(44:50):
Lindsay says we're about to seeAmericana rise the same way
that we saw all country do it inthe 90s.
Right?
That's kind of like what youwere saying earlier.
The different uh genres withincountry music itself.
All right.
Matt says too many artistschase virality instead of
(45:12):
legacy.
Robby Johnson (45:14):
Well, maybe it's because they need to pay their
mortgage trying to find a way togenerate income.
That's probably why.
Jay Franze (45:23):
Well, I can understand that if you're a new
artist, you chase it because youwant to become the big artist.
But once you're the big artist,you should probably give up on
chasing it at that point.
Robby Johnson (45:32):
And and what's crazy is the ones that do make
it big is because they neverchased it.
And oftentimes they're the onesthat just explode because
they're so authentic anddifferent and and people just
just love it.
They're original.
Jay Franze (45:49):
Ellis says this show feels more like a hangout at a
Nashville bar.
Thank you.
Robby Johnson (45:54):
Yeah, that's a compliment.
Jay Franze (45:55):
Thank you, Allah.
Erica says stadium tours areoverrated.
The best shows are in the closesmall tight venues.
She also says you need to beclose enough to see the sweat.
Tiffany Mason (46:10):
I don't know if I need to see the sweat, but I do
think like if I was looking attickets for uh I think Brandon
Lake, but they were showingthese sections that were like
behind the artist, basically.
And I thought, shame on themfor even selling the ticket.
Like nobody wants a back viewof the stage and to see all the
(46:31):
sound equipment and the guysrunning around and all that kind
of stuff.
You know, you're there to seethe artist and the band.
Jay Franze (46:37):
I I just thought it was kind of I don't know, a
little disgraceful or theyusually open that section up
like at the last minute whenpeople are begging for just to
be able to get in.
Yeah, they don't usually sellthose seats with the intent for
the audience.
Tiffany Mason (46:53):
I don't know.
That's not a seat I want.
So I like the venues that likeevery seat's a good seat.
Like when we went to the IowaState Fair, every seat's a good
seat there.
There's not a bad seat in thehouse.
Robby Johnson (47:03):
That's cool because you know, being the
artist on stage, I love to seethe people.
I do a light check, notexterior, it's kind of hard, but
when it's interior show, I do alight check to make sure that
when this show starts, I can seeeverybody.
And I just love that.
So when it's too big and youcan't really see anybody and
(47:24):
you're just pointing fingers at,oh, there's people there, you
know, just point anywhere.
Uh I'm not I gotta.
If I point somewhere, it'sbecause I see a face and a smile
and whatnot.
Jay Franze (47:35):
Have you ever played Laurie's Roadhouse?
Nope.
It's in Cincinnati.
They have a lot of big actsthat go through there.
And I enjoy going there morethan I enjoy going to some of
the bigger venues because youknow I can go in there, I can
walk around, I can, you know,have comfortable seating.
I mean, it's a nice place.
And they serve food.
Robby Johnson (47:55):
And the sound's probably better, right?
Jay Franze (47:57):
It does sound good, yeah.
Robby Johnson (47:58):
Because arena shows sometimes it's just
hardest.
You know the lyrics, so youknow when he's singing, but you
can't really hear it.
Jay Franze (48:06):
The worst is when they talk in between songs.
You can't understand a wordthey say.
Tiffany Mason (48:11):
Oh yeah, oh yeah.
You know, I'm really a big fan,so like you know, if well,
maybe you don't know, but whenyou go to church, there's
usually somewhere where you cansee the lyrics to song, right?
And I really love the lastcouple of concerts I've gone to,
they've put some lyrics up.
And like, I know the tune, I'veheard it on the radio, I'm
excited to see this person, andnow they're singing a song I
(48:32):
don't really know, but I am asing-alonger, and that is what
makes the concert for me is if Ican sing along.
So if I know I'm going withenough advanced time, I'll do my
homework and try to learnlyrics for more of the songs.
But if not, like I took mydaughter to Megan Moroni, I'm
not a huge Megan Moroni fan, Iam after the concert, but it was
(48:53):
really nice.
She had the words up there, soI could shout all the words with
my daughter, and we were havinga great time.
I think, I mean, Robbie, thisis a huge suggestion for you,
but lyrics, we want to singalong, you know.
It was it's just been so niceto see that.
And I'm like, oh, cool.
Now I can sing along.
Jay Franze (49:11):
Stick around long enough, and she's gonna start
telling you how to do things,Robbie.
That's just how it works.
She came on here as a guest andshe's never left.
Robby Johnson (49:23):
That's funny, but yes, the lyrics I would totally
show if you know.
Um, of course, there's a budgetinvolved, and someone who has
to follow along and make sure itfollows and everything.
But yes, totally.
I would I would definitely havelyrics up there somewhere so
that I could for me uh, youknow, just take a quick look if
(49:44):
I it happens, it happens.
Makes sense to me.
Makes sense to me.
Jay Franze (49:51):
Tyler says, I leave with a new playlist every
episode.
Y'all should seriously considerputting together an official
Jay Franzi show playlist everyweek.
Tyler, go to jayfranzi.comslash countdown.
The playlist is already there,buddy.
Tiffany Mason (50:09):
I love how long it takes me to get through any
of our episodes because whateversongs we talk about, like I'll
be listening in my car and wetalk about a song, and I'm like,
I should listen to it.
I'm like, no, I'm not gonna.
And I'm like, eh, yeah, I'mgonna.
And then I ask my lady on thephone if she'll please play the
song for me, and I'm off andrunning.
So it takes me a really longtime to listen to our episodes.
Jay Franze (50:32):
Cole says we need more supergroups in country.
Yep, I agree on that.
We have one.
High Mountain Breezes.
Tiffany Mason (50:40):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Jay Franze (50:42):
High Mountain Breezes is nothing but a
supergroup.
I don't know, Robbie, if you'vehad an opportunity to hear them
yet.
Robby Johnson (50:48):
No, no, but I'm I'm curious.
Jay Franze (50:50):
They've had a couple number one hits at this point,
but they are all Nashvillesession players and Nashville
songwriters and producers andengineers, and they just got
together and they just startedputting together songs they
wanted to put together.
It's all by um Bruce Tarletsky,his brainchild.
But he uses Chris Lusinger onguitar, who is Garth Brook's
(51:13):
guitar player.
Curious.
Naomi.
That's a name we have not saidyet.
Naomi.
She's like vinyl is not a fad.
It is actually the future ofwhat music should be.
That is having a physicalproduct back in your hands.
I agree.
I like having a physicalproduct.
Streaming is great, but youdon't get the credits anymore.
Well, I guess you do in Appleon some of those, but that's
(51:36):
fine.
But you don't get to hold thepamphlet, you don't get to look
at the extra pictures, you don'tget to read about the studio or
any of that stuff.
Tiffany Mason (51:44):
It's like a cheap thrill, opposed to like the the
tactile holding of it and goingover it and thinking, I don't
know, like you know, you see anairplane in the air and you're
like, they could be going to afuneral, they could be going to
a wedding, they could be goingon vacation, they could be going
to see a loved one, right?
There's all thesepossibilities.
And it's the same thing whenyou look at that album and you
think like how they created it,and you know, and especially now
(52:07):
Jay knowing you, you know,diving into who produced it and
who are the people that deserveall that credit, you know.
Robby Johnson (52:14):
Yeah, it's I mean, streaming, like I said,
opened the gates and uh helped alot.
The genre and all genres.
Jay Franze (52:23):
I love the fact that you can select any song you
want to hear and you can listento it.
I love it.
Yeah.
But I still want to hold theproduct.
Robby Johnson (52:31):
Yeah, but I agree, it kind of it's not it's
a totally different experiencetoday than you know before when
you had to earn money or ask formoney to go and buy the album.
Wait, wait for it and wait inline, and sometimes you get
there, there are no more copies,and you had to go back, you
(52:52):
know, the next week orsomething.
So it was a totally differentexperience, and music had so
much value.
You don't you kind of almostdon't have to pay to listen to
music.
So it's no, and uh yeah, soit's it's a totally different
experience.
And the sad part is gonna keepevolving, and you know, with AI
(53:13):
coming in and everything, uhit's it's gonna change
drastically.
Jay Franze (53:18):
Have you heard any AI songs yet?
Robby Johnson (53:21):
Yeah, there's some good songs, pretty good
ones, really pretty good songs.
I mean, the really good ones.
Yes, but it's still lyrics froma human being.
Because the ones that aretotally AI, meh, you're missing
something from the lyrics.
It's it's it's gonna get there,and it's it's scary for
(53:42):
artists.
It's uh it's it's really scary.
And people say it's not gonnabe able to generate emotions,
and that's not true.
It's it's definitely gonna beable to do all of that.
Jay Franze (53:54):
All right, James says Tiffany's laugh is the new
sound of country music.
I love it.
Tiffany Mason (54:03):
I would have to agree.
It's very melodious.
Jay Franze (54:08):
Chris said radio isn't dead.
It just needs to stoppretending it's the gatekeeper
anymore.
Robby Johnson (54:16):
Yeah.
Jay Franze (54:18):
And I'll end on this one.
Vanessa says country music isat its best when it borrows from
other genres.
Robby Johnson (54:27):
Yeah.
Jay Franze (54:29):
All right, Miss Tiffany, what you got going on
this week?
Tiffany Mason (54:32):
Well, there is a new episode out of the Link Up
Lounge.
And this weekend we are gonnago watch a parade.
So busy schedule.
Jay Franze (54:43):
Nice.
Robbie, sir, what do you gotgoing on this weekend?
Robby Johnson (54:47):
My son's friend from uh one of his old friends
that he kept from Canada isactually here right now.
He's on his fall break, and uhhe's gonna be spending time with
us.
So that's gonna be cool thisweekend.
You know, just I mean, being anartist, it's 24-7.
Right.
(55:08):
Never stop.
I got so many things on my listthat I need to do, and you
know, with the album coming andcreating content and doing all
that.
But I'll try and find sometime, you know, with the family
and enjoy some good quality timewith the family.
Jay Franze (55:24):
You said Quebec, what part?
Robby Johnson (55:26):
Right next to Quebec City, South Shore of
Quebec City.
Jay Franze (55:30):
I used to go to Montreal all the time because it
was only four hours from myhouse, and that's when you
didn't need a passport to crossthe border and any of that
stuff.
Robby Johnson (55:41):
Times change.
Jay Franze (55:42):
All right.
This past week I had anopportunity to go see the
All-American Throwbacks.
That was at Lori's Road House.
That was 90s pop punk music,was actually pretty cool.
They were a fun band.
And I'm sure I will end up backthere again this week.
They always have the best andbest acts that come through
town.
They've got Sammy Kershaw'scoming up.
(56:04):
Cool.
Diamond Rio, a few others arecoming to town.
And then my wife is going outof town.
I'm sure she's already asleepand not listening, but I cannot
wait.
See, Robbie, that's how youwent over your wife right there.
You just don't.
Robby Johnson (56:21):
You wait for her to sleep.
Jay Franze (56:23):
Wait till they're asleep and say, go.
Robby Johnson (56:29):
Hey, last weekend, last weekend I went
fishing, fishing trip in uh BC,Canada.
Uh there's a huge salmon runthis year.
The rivers are crystal clear,and you can see the fish.
It's thousands and thousands ofsalmon.
I mean, it's insane, and it'sit's so much fun because they
can, you know, they can give youa good fight.
(56:50):
And uh it was a lot of fun.
Also went uh white sturgeonfishing.
Jay Franze (56:55):
Now do you keep them or throw them back?
Robby Johnson (56:57):
Uh the white sturgeon are protected, so we
can't keep.
Oh, the salmon, no, it wascatch and release, catch and
release, yeah.
And um the white sturgeon, it'sreally impressive because they
can live up to they say 200years old, even yeah, and they
grow about a feet every 10years.
(57:18):
And we caught one that wasabout seven, seven foot, so he
was about 70 years old, andbecause it's a prehistoric fish.
They don't have scales, theyhave bone plates.
It's it's really it's a veryinteresting fish.
Wow, definitely Frasier Riverin uh BC.
Tiffany Mason (57:38):
Are you saying Fraser?
Robby Johnson (57:40):
Frasier, like, not Frasier, Fraser, subtle, but
yeah, Fraser, and uh and did alittle hike where we were going
up the mountain wondering how wewould go back down.
It was, yeah, there were ropesto climb and everything.
(58:04):
I was with my kids, and we'relike, oh my god, this is cool,
but how are we gonna get down?
Jay Franze (58:11):
You hope that you make it to the top and there's
stairs going down the otherside.
Robby Johnson (58:15):
Yeah, yeah, like and at one point we were like,
we're gonna have to call in achobber.
But actually, it was it wasfairly easy to go down, and uh,
but I mean we uh we fell a fewtimes, but it was it was nice,
it was a lot of fun.
Nice air was pure.
Jay Franze (58:32):
All right, well, we have done it, we have reached
the top of the hour, top of hournumber two, which does mean we
have reached the end of theshow.
If you've enjoyed the show,please tell a friend and Miss
Tiffany if you have not.
Tiffany Mason (58:43):
Tell two.
Jay Franze (58:44):
Tell two.
You can reach out to both ofus, you can reach out to all
three of us.
We will be over at jfranzi.com.
We will answer any questionsyou have, and we'll be happy to
keep this conversation going.
Robbie, sir.
Yes, we cannot thank you enoughfor joining us tonight.
We would like to leave thefinal words to you.
Robby Johnson (59:02):
Uh thank you so much for having me on the show.
It was a lot of fun.
I really enjoyed it.
Spooky, everything.
Uh, thank you so much.
And thanks to the listeners,you know, people that are
watching and uh listening andinteracting and doing all that,
a huge thank you.
Because, you know, it's likefor an artist, uh, you can
(59:24):
release music, but if peoplelike you don't bring light to it
or people don't share it,stream it, request it, talk
about it, nothing happens.
So thank you so much, guys, forwhat you do with my music.
And uh, yeah, you guys make ithappen.
You're the rock stars, so thankyou.
Jay Franze (59:44):
Have a good night.
Thanks for listening to the JayFranzi Show.
Make sure you visit us atJFranzy.com.
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