Dumb Blonde - Getting Dicked Down with Trey Lewis

Episode Date: May 4, 2022

He's used to playing for 25,000 screaming fans, but this week Trey Lewis takes the stage with Bunnie to bare all. The country singer turned viral hitmaker talks about hitting it big in 2020 with his hit "Getting Dicked Down in Dallas", and how the newfound attention changed his life. He also talks with Bunnie about getting sober at a young age, his big tour coming up, and gives a glimpse into his private life.  Bunnie: Website  Watch Full Episodes & More: www.dumbblondeunrated.comSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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Welcome to another episode of Dumb Blonde. Our guest today, if you don't know who he is, he must have been living under a rock in fucking 2020 because i feel like you had like the national anthem for 2020 it was uh it's crazy it was dick down in dallas trey lewis baby what's up thanks for having me on today dude i'm so happy you're here i've been wanting to get you on since dick down in dallas dropped i i loved the song so much that I did a girl version of it. Oh, nice.

But I never released it. I want to hear it. Oh, God, I sound like a cat fucking screaming and screeching and clawing up a wall. It was in the wrong pitch. Well, there was a lot of, like, girl versions of that song. And, like, some of them were, like, mad. And it's like, I was never hating on women.

You know what I'm saying? Not at all. I think the line that saved us was that pray in that she comes back and i was never hating on women you know not at all i think the line that saved us was is that praying that she comes back yeah sweet ass you know i feel like the world is so fucking sensitive now yeah like you can say fucking the grass is green and somebody's gonna be like it's not fucking green it's emerald yeah i mean i really i really do feel like that we got lucky in that sense that nobody like really hated on me for that yeah i mean i think it can't you're that song came at a time that the world needed some

fucking comic relief yeah you know like it was just we were going through the the whole rona situation and everybody was being so serious so you know you dropped oh actually my husband told me that you had dick down in dallas for a long time so the story goes so i you know i've been playing music for like 10 years yeah that's what he said and you we have a mutual friend ryan yeah we call him ronnie in our in our camp he's hilarious rld which um uh i don't know he he he runs lights for us but anyways anyways, he didn't know Ryan's name. And one day he was like, Ronnie, get up here or whatever. And we just started calling him Ronnie.

Yeah. So sorry. Somebody just walked in. Who is it? Oh, hi, baby. No, you're good. My husband just comes in and boom bars Trey's fucking podcast.

We were like, who's walking in here right now? Hi, Daddy. It's okay. Come say hi. Introduce yourself. You can stay. We're just talking about Ronnie Nelson. We call him Ronnie in our camp.

Love you so much. It's okay it good say hi to trey though so sorry we didn't this is not planned yeah man for sure i was just telling him how you had told me about the um about dick down in dallas how he had had that song out for a while before yeah it was uh it was kind of wild how it happened so i played covers for like for a living you know that was my job yeah four nights a week four hours straight you know no breaks and i did that forever and then i went through a divorce and then i was like i was like 30 i was like screw it i'm just gonna move to nashville see what happens

did she get dicked down in dallas uh i don't know but i did find out last week that she is getting dicked down by one of my old friends oh that's a fucking but you know it's all good because you know everything worked out yeah everything worked out for me. Yeah, everything worked out. I was telling her the story that we were at Live Oak one night drunk. Yeah. And we were playing. Yeah. And I was like, this is months before Dig Down Dallas came out.

And you sang it. And everybody did the dig down, dig down. And Dallas probably had people in the crowd. And Brian Nelson was like, I fucking love this song. I love this fucking jam. It was funny when it got so big. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It was kind of crazy.

So like playing the covers and everything. I was playing in Auburnurn alabama at this place called sky bar one night and uh this guy walked in he's taller than me and uh i was up on the stage singing big green tractor and i was changing the words to take you for a ride on my big tally whacker like after you play covers for so long it's like you gotta make it interesting for yourself because nobody's really listening right you know what i mean they're just vibing yeah drunk as shit just like play some like whatever you know yeah and uh and uh anyways matt mckinney he came up to me and he like shook my

hand he was like dude that was hilarious and then so i moved to nashville and i'm at revival one night and this guy comes walking between he's like dude i met you at um in auburn you were changing the words that was hilarious and then me and him just became boys right then we were just hanging out all the time playing madden together like you sound like my husband he's like instant bffs with people and they just are like friends for life he was like one of the first hands i shook in nashville we just became friends and then um you know and then he just says like naturally as songwriters we just you know like as i got here i would just you know i was meeting people and writing with people and sometimes it would be with him sometimes it would be with other people you know and and uh we would

just like send each other work tapes back and forth like what do you think about this what do you think about that? And then one day he sent me this song called Dick Down in Dallas. But it was just like a verse and a chorus. There was nothing else. I didn't think anything of it. And then going into 2020, it was supposed to be one of my best years financially. I had a lot of weddings and corporate events lined up.

Oh, you were a wedding singer? Yeah, I did it all. Like Adam Sandler? I did whatever I had a lot of like weddings and like corporate events lined up you were a wedding singer yeah I did it all like Adam Sandler I did whatever I had to yeah to make a living you know that's awesome I moved to Nashville because I wanted to learn how to write songs better and and uh I it was it was gonna be a good year for me and then COVID happened and then everything shut down and that allowed me more time to write and actually get to hang out with my co-writers and things like that. That's what I was going to say. I feel like 2020 divided the herd.

It was more like if you were a creator or an artist, you either let it make you or break you. That was your time to either shine and figure out how to evolve with the times or just let it sink or swim. Because that's how our family was. We sat down and had a family meeting and we were like, okay, so we can't tour. You can't do this.

So what are we going to do? And we just pumped out content left and right. Yeah. Yeah. And then, yeah, nice to meet you, man. I love you, baby. You're good. I think it'll be awesome for the interview.

It's okay. It's all good. I love you, baby. Of course, man. Yeah. the interview. It's okay. It's all good. I love you, baby. Of course, man. Of course. I love you. It's okay. It's okay.

He's so embarrassed right now. I know my husband. Great to meet him. But then, so, like, everything just kind of, like, shut down. And I started hanging out with my co-writers and like having bonfires at each other's houses and just like really getting to know other than Matt you know Matt was like my good buddy but like starting to really get to know people I like put out some small projects like I think I recorded some like quarantine songs that I recorded on my phone

and I just put those out and then I did some like acoustic stuff that I like put out and then um I decided that you know like uh I was going to record Dick Down in Dallas we went to Chili's one day or something we were coming back and McKinney had finished the song with the other two writers Brent Gafford and Drew Trostclare and I and he played it in the car and then my other roommate Mitch was like dude if this song was out right now I would buy it yeah and then I just had the thought I was like you know what man I've been putting out music since 2012 nobody like maybe like my mom and my cousins have listened to it right and like a few of those people that dive bar in Birmingham that I play at you know right I was like I'll it. So then I learned it and then I started playing it like dive bars.

So did you write it besides the verse? No, I didn't write any of it. Oh, okay. Gotcha. I just, my friends wrote it and I was just like, none of y'all are ever going to put this out. Yeah. So like, you know, I'm going to do it.

You know, McKinney grew up, he was like, you know, in the ministry as a kid. And his parents would just like not be cool with that. Right. I feel like that's how a lot of country artists are. Like they're so scared to cross that line. Yeah. You know, so it's like they want to do things, but because of their image or because of their upbringing and stuff like that, like it keeps them from. And then like Brent, he's in a duo with his wife. So that's not going to work. Yeah. And then Drew's a guitar player. So I was like, screw it. and then like Brent he's in a duo with his wife so that's not gonna work

yeah and then Drew's a guitar player so I was like screw it I'll do it you know I've written a lot of good songs you know in the years that I've been here and you know I'm not afraid to put out you know something else I mean it has a lot to do with my personality but I started playing it like at these bonfire parties and like all these things that we were doing. And then Matt Burrill, which is now my tour manager, has a podcast called In the Round. And then they have like a round that they have in Nashville. And he was like, I want you to come play the round. I want you to play your music.

But at the end, I want you to do a bonus song and play Dick Down in Dallas. Yeah. And so that night I showed up and I played Dick Down in Dallas. And by then all our friends were in the bar. So everybody knew the song. So everybody was singing it. And Nikki T, Raised Rowdy, took a video of it, put it on Raised Rowdy. From there, Trey Bonner, my content guy, got it put on Call Her Daddy's Facebook group, I think.

And then from there, McKinney got it put on Old Row. And then I just started posting TikTok videos. Yeah. TikTok is where it's at, man. Yeah. And then I think after TikTok, after the TikTok video, or no, after that night at Live Oak, I called Ryan Nelson. I was like, what do you think I should do, dude?

Do you think I should do like a Corey Smith vibe and just like keep it acoustic or you know so like I definitely called you know and asked him what he thought about it yeah and then that night I was I was dating a girl at the time and I was which I do that a lot but that was my next question I was gonna be like how much pussy has dick down in Dallas gotten you well I had a girlfriend the entire time. Oh, did you? Yeah, during that. Damn it. No, I'm just kidding. I'm totally kidding. But it was fun. Yeah. But anyways, so I don't know. I feel like

we can get into that later, but I honestly feel like I did all that like getting laid and getting pussy on the road like before all this happened. Yeah. you got it out of your after a while that just like doesn't yeah you know what i mean like no i totally get it eventually at some point you have to quit using that for validation yeah it's really an ego stroke i

mean i'm married to a musician so i get it we totally go on little escapades on the road and stuff like that so um after dick down in dallas dropped and like all this fame like started coming to you and all this attention how did that make you feel because you're very open about uh mental illness and i love that about you because i i suffer with depression and anxiety i had a meeting with my therapist this morning before i came over here i love that we we stand a king who gets therapy i think that's so awesome awesome, dude. Not enough people talk about it, and I'm so open about it. I talk about it all the time, but to hear men talk about it, I think is such a rarity.

I think that's really awesome that you embrace it. It's definitely a huge thing for me to really stay on top of it. One thing I was talking about today is that like people that like see me as trey lewis and then people that just see me as trey you know what i mean oh yeah um so i mean i'll never forget the night that dig town dallas came out and it was number one on the itunes charts to me you know you know i'm an independent artist so like a number one song on itunes chart is a big deal. Huge.

Like, never, you know. And I just never forget. I went in my room, and I got down on my knees, and I was just like, thanks, God. I'll never question you again. Because I'll never forget, like, a year and a half ago, I was in my van, and I was driving down the road, and I just, like, remember telling God. I was like, look, man man if all you want me to do is just like play these cover gigs on the weekends and uh you know get to write songs my friends during the week I'll do that but like don't you think it would be cool just to like

have like a little bit of success to like show people that I've been sober for 14 years i got sober i got sober in alabama what uh what was your your addiction of choice i mean i just i really liked it all but like he was like my cocaine xanax alcohol just like you know black out oh yeah or get out i was the same way so you must suffer from anxiety and social anxiety uh yeah for sure even still so yeah oh no me too it's hard for me to even do podcasts someday and like this has been my therapy doing this podcast because it's so hard for me sometimes to even just be around big crowds so i totally understand what you say whenever you say people know you as trey lewis and they know you as trey because you know people see my persona online and it's like oh she's half naked she's. She's loud. She's outspoken. And then when you meet me in person, I'm kind of like, Hey,

but I mean a lot of that, like of, you know, what I've put on the internet, that is my personality. It is totally who I am in my comfort zone. Right. Exactly. Yes. But it's like, if I'm just like at a bar with my friends, like I'm just trying to chill, you know what I mean? It's like, I don't want to talk about my DM Monday monday that I posted monday you know what I mean right yeah um so when you say that you got sober what um let's take this back to how old were you I was 19 years old when you decided to get sober yeah so I started using drugs when I was 12 oh my goodness how did that happen um my parents'm not going to sit here and blame my parents. Definitely not.

It's not about blaming parents, but childhood trauma is a huge staple in people's mental health. Yeah, definitely some childhood trauma. They say that trauma starts in the wound from the moment of conception, how you were conceived. There's this book that I'm reading. I forget the moment of conception how you were conceived there's this book that i'm reading i forget the name of it i'll if you're interested in it but it says that even like how you were conceived like how your mom felt at the moment of conception during her pregnancy that's when trauma starts too yeah insane right yeah um lucky us yeah i mean there's a there's some you know there's other things you know like i was molested like when I was younger by my babysitter, which she was a female. So like I never said nothing to anybody about it.

I'm so glad that you're talking about that, though, because a lot of men won't come forward and say stuff like that, you know, and I don't care what anybody says. Molestation is molestation. It doesn't matter if it's a girl and a boy or a boy or a girl. That doesn't minimize the trauma that you went through. How old were you? I was young, 6, 7. I didn't even remember it until I was 2 or 3 years sober. How old was she? Because you were self-medicating.

Yeah, I was just so young. I don't know. She was like my babysitter. She was probably underage, too. Yeah, but still. Oh, my God. Yeah, that's still. It was wrong. She knew what she was like my babysitter she was she was probably under age two or yeah but still oh my god yeah that's still it was wrong she knew what she was doing yeah yeah um but you know i mean it's it is what it is and and uh how were you introduced to drugs at such a young age so i have a sister that's two years older than me and um she was like i remember being young and like waking up in the middle of the night and there being like police at my house like my mom and her like getting into

it you know some good old domestic violence yeah so like right then and there i made the decision that i was never gonna smoke weed because i figured that's all she was doing i'm sure there's more to the story but i was was like, that ruins families. But as I got older and started getting curious and, like, skateboarding and doing all that, and, you know, I was like, I played football and stuff, but also, like, skateboarded, and I was always, like, the kind of guy that could get along with every, like, little crowd in school, you know? Yeah. like little crowd in school you know yeah um i think that's just part of my addictive behavior you know being being like somebody that can get along with you learned how to read a room at a room and all that stuff i understand that but uh anyways i um i made the decision i was i started

like hanging out with some kids and i was like well I'm not gonna smoke pot but my parents drink so I can drink yeah and 12 is so young though to even start experimenting like I we have a 13 year old and I'll kill her you know even though I was a wild one when I was younger like I just it it's crazy when you look back now and you're like god 12 and 13 like that's just crazy and I decided to get drunk for the first time. I drank nine beers. The first time I ever got drunk was off a 40 of old English. Yeah. Beer. Why do we all get drunk off beer?

I used to drink old English. King Cobra. Oh, got mad dog. 2020. I had some friends, the, uh,

this Asian family. Yeah. Birmingham. And, uh, they have Asians in Birmingham. Yeah. Yeah.

Crazy. There's like brothers and sisters. Yeah. I actually talked to him the other day yeah and um but anyways they own gas stations and like ends like the hood hood of birmingham so like it was like at 17 16 it was like being 21 like you could just have whatever i could just go down there like i was 21 you know yeah mad dog 2020 you know yeah i've get Mad Dog 2020, you know. Yeah. Wild Heart's Rose. I've peeped that up so many times. So I think it definitely contributed to maybe some of my alcoholism tendencies.

What was the first hard drug you ever tried? Hard drug. Let's see. Probably Xanax or Percocet or something like that. Yeah. We grew up in the pill popping era yeah thankfully yeah like sometimes when i go to these treatment centers and speak i'll talk about doing oxycontin and they look at me like i'm talking about doing quaaludes or something you

know yeah yeah yeah because it doesn't exist now i mean it's heroin now but that's what i was saying like that's when i was joking around saying thankfully we grew up in the pill popping era because now it's like fentanyl heroin heroin. Like they're doing crazy shit now. And I'm just like, how the fuck? Like, it's insane. So you made the conscious decision at such a young age to get sober. What brought that about? What happened with me is like I got drunk.

And then from there, I was like, you know, never do that again. I'm sorry. You know, but like in the back of my mind it was on like that was an important day in my life that nervous disposition that i had my entire life was gone yeah like i knew the kind of person that i wanted to be i quit all my sports i quit everything like it was like it became my lifestyle like all it mattered was like listening to some ugk and like whose brother was gonna buy me some some alcohol you know what i mean and like just became this whole identity of like being wrapped up in that so i was like yeah still not gonna smoke pot the next week i'm smoking

pot i'm not gonna do pills the next week i'm doing pills you know crazy oh i'll never do cocaine i'm crossing that line so it's just like for me it was just like all the way in all or nothing and that's kind of my personality now i've had to relearn how to not do that um with other you know other things they're just life in general or just have like more balanced life but that's that's how my drug addiction was it was just like oh yeah it was just all downhill and it's like it eventually came to a point to me where like i went to military school for a little while like by the time i was 17 i had a felony dui so you did start getting

in trouble like a felony theft charge and dui in two different counties xanax will make you a klepto yeah yeah i mean i stole so much shit when I was fucking Xanied out bro yeah I have this friend like we're still friends to this day and like we've you know he lives up in Charlotte now or somewhere up there when we played at um Coyote Joe's he came out and hung out with us but I'll never forget we were at his house one time and like I was selling weed at the time so i sold weed to everybody at the party and then and then uh i took a bunch of xanax that night and i just like filled my car up with like baseball cards like old coins like at one point somebody came upstairs

and asked me what i was doing i just they said i just looked at him said i'm shopping man yeah no it's something about xanax like you never hear a story that ends well with like, I took Xanax. And then, you know, and like nobody likes the gallon pills except for the gallon pills. Oh, yeah. No. The lights are on, but nobody's home. Yeah. Like you're just like on autopilot.

Yeah. It's just not like you wake up with like somebody else's phone. And somebody else's wallet. And none of it's yours and you don't know how you did it it's just i used to think it was cute i would wake up and my friends would tell me things that i did the night before and then you get to a point in your addiction where you're just like this shit's not cute anymore yeah you know like it gets to a point where it's like you're ruining friendships fucking you know i overdosed on xanax twice

people say you can't overdose on xanax i'm like like, yes you can. I'm like, I did it twice and I don't know how I fucking survived, but I'm here by the grace of God. I guess what the jumping off point for me was is I went to military school and then the day after all that court stuff got thrown out,

I got kicked out. I came back home and then I really started selling drugs really hard. I can't see you being a drug dealer. And then I really started like selling drugs like really hard. I can't see you being a drug dealer. Yeah. I mean, I mean, I'm talking about I had the black Dickies. Really? I love a man in Dickies.

Like I had the my nickname was T-Bird. Oh, I love that. You're a T-Bird from now on. But I had like this green like pinstripe Atlanta hat and I had Birdman stitched in the back. Oh, that is hilarious. Yeah. Like I shopped at like City Trends and stuff, you know. I think all of you.

The Tall Tees, like that was me. I feel like all of you guys that are like in the country realm now had a hood phase. Yeah, yeah. I was definitely hood all the way. Anyway, so I was just thinking about that. It's funny. But what really, where I hit the jumping off place was, is like after all that, I was like really, you know,

involved with like selling drugs and doing them. And then I ended up getting arrested. And like in between getting in trouble when i was 17 like i went to the sane asylum a bunch of times not because like i was insane or like no i was you know like i would have to go to the emergency room because like i was like just so messed up you know they would think that i was like trying to kill myself so they put me in like the underage psych ward was it the pills that you're on that was yeah just like whatever you know whatever i was doing like i had a 10th grade summer where i just did like five to ten hits acid every day just like off the rails savage so i was just like it was just crazy

um but i get arrested when i'm living in tuscaloosa. I go to jail, and I'll never forget. It was my turn to have my phone call. And I remember I just wanted to go to the phone and call somebody that could tell me, like, it's going to be okay. You're going to get out of this. You know, like, you're a good person, you know. But there was just nobody to call. Like, I'd screwed everybody over that was closest to me. And, you know, i feel like that's what

my addiction and my alcoholism did is it pushed everybody i hurt everybody that was closest to me or gave a shit or anything about me and so there's nobody to call so i sit in jail for like you know 30 days my cellmate is uh had been on the run for like 10 years for attempted murder you know i'm like 19 years old but i'm like at this point i'm like i really want to stop using drugs and i really want to stop drinking i'd said it before but it was always in the back of my mind i knew i was going to do it again i was telling people that to get them off my back to earn their trust you know and i'll never forget i got out of jail finally my my asian friends spelled me out and i remember i went back to to their house and i remember i was in love with their

little sister at the time and i was like i promise i'm never doing this again look and i really meant it and like there was tears in my eyes it wasn't like to get anybody off my back and then that night when everybody went to sleep i saw a blunt roach in the ashtray and i picked it up and i smoked it and then i sat there all night watching uh locked up and just freaked out the entire night thinking that i was going to prison um but that started it all for me like that's as you it's just like one's too many a thousand's and never enough like that was like picture you know of that saying yeah and um from there i went from when i got arrested they took all my money from me so i went from having all this money to do whatever i wanted to to get this bottle or do that or whatever to having nothing so like from that for another

three months it was just like i would wake up find a way to get messed up black out go to sleep wake up do it again like i wasn't welcome at home i was sleeping on people's couches they were kicking me out my mom was a nurse there is a nurse at uab in birmingham i would go sleep in her car when she was at work and then did you know you were sleeping in her car yeah she would let me you know mom's mom's the ace in the hole you know I always have that's so good or or number one enabler you know who yeah what you call it but uh no she's awesome me and my mom are cool but um yeah it just got to a point to where I was just like I'm sick of doing this um and I called my mom up, and then finally three months later, that was always my thing.

I would make all these resolutions, but I would never make a decision to actually go through with it. So I finally went to treatment. It's almost like you had to psych yourself out. Yeah, I was like waking up every day with the shakes, throwing up blood. Oh, my God. My skin was kind of gross looking. Brutal. Yeah, it was just time for me to go to rehab you were just hurting yourself because you were hurting inside exactly and i

went for i was in treatment for two weeks and then i did halfway house for six months and when i was nine months sober i bought a guitar and taught myself how to play it that was my next question was like when did music come into play for you? I bought a guitar. I think I was six months sober. I was working. I was making smoothies, tropical smoothie. Oh, I love me a tropical smoothie. Me too.

Sometimes they'd be canceling my order though. You know what I mean? When I overeat. P.F. Chang does that to me all the time. It's bullshit. Yeah. But anyway, so I bought a guitar. I moved in with my dad.

I made amends to my father. I was about to say, how was your relationship with your dad? Because I heard you say mom was the ace in the hole. So growing up, me and my dad were super close. And then when I started doing drugs and stuff, we became not so close. Tough love. I stole money from him. He pressed charges on me.

It was screwed up. He just tried to give you that tough love. So it was like, I stole money from him. He pressed charges on me. Like it was screwed up. But my dad. He just tried to give you that tough love. Yeah. My dad ended up becoming my best friend though. And when I got seven years, I gave him my seven year chip. And I told him how much I loved him. And, you know, he would come to my Mexican restaurant gigs and everything.

And, but anyways, after I gave him my seven year chip, I went to the beach with my family and I came back home. when i came back home i got a call that he had had a heart attack he passed away oh my god yeah so that was like definitely a hard thing to deal with in my sobriety because it was so like abrupt but i mean looking back on it now i can't think of another you know picture-perfect goodbye and the relationship that we had from day one of sobriety to you know seven years of sobriety I mean he got to see me grow up yeah in a major way you know so still with you though and he's still like oh yeah he's looking down proud as hell right now yeah yeah I mean he loves it that get down in dallas is the song that did

it that's awesome yeah he was he was there in the beginning and you know we used to write funny songs together and have a good time together so pretty cool um but yeah i just think it's funny that like you know we're here talking about dick down in dallas yeah and it's a great song it's a party you know right but like i like your Dick Down in Dallas. Yeah. And it's a great song. It's a party. You know what I mean? But, like. I like your other song more, the one that you wrote about depression. Oh, The Little Tired?

Mm-hmm. I love that song. Oh, I appreciate it. We actually listened to it today, and I was just like, this song is amazing. Thank you. Thank you. Yeah. I just think it's, like, to me, it's cool. It's, like, it's, Dick Down in Dallas is my gift to, like, share with the world, but to

show you that, like, if you look deeper into it, there's more there. Oh, absolutely. There's more out of life. That's what my whole podcast is about. I love bringing people on with story, like you that have stories to tell that like, yeah, we only know you from Dick down in Dallas, but there's just so much more to know. So after you got sober, you picked up a guitar. And what were your thoughts then? Were you like, okay, I want to do music? Or was this just a way of therapy for you? I just remember the first time I played a G chord.

I didn't know what I was doing. But I was like, damn, that feels really good. And I dropped out of high school. And I went back and got my GED. I was taking some college classes at, like, the community college in Alabama. GED gang. Yeah, good enough. Good enough diploma.

Yeah. And I was doing the classes. I had a job. You know, this is the first time in my life where I actually felt like I was, like, growing up. Right. Part of my recovery is that I sponsor other people you know through the through the steps of you know 12-step programs and I was working with this guy he was a young guy he was a musician too he was in a rock and

roll band in Nashville and he was like I'm going to Nashville you want to go with me kind of like be my sober companion or whatever so So I come up here to Nashville. We're hanging out over on Edge Hill. Oh, yeah, I love that area. And I'm in the studio, and this producer guy hands me a guitar. He's like, play me a song. And I play him a song that I wrote. I wrote it about my best friend.

It's called Frankie Didn't Die Out in Montana. It's terrible, but, you know, like it's my first song but the guy liked my voice and he was like man if you move up here to Nashville like I'll do an EP like we'll you know we'll figure it out and I had to like really honestly think about like leaving my

comfort zone you know because I was like first time I ever felt like an adult so I eventually did and i moved up here and i lived up here for like six months how long have you been here well i've only been here three years okay gotcha but i lived here for like six months and we did a whole ep and you know i mean i at this, I had not even played a gig. But one of my longtime songwriter friends, his name's Aaron Lee,

I told him I was thinking about moving up to Nashville. He was like, don't move up here. He was like, you need to go play gigs, get your chops up, come to Big Fish and Small Pond, and then move up here. Aw. And honestly, when I... That's actually good advice. Yeah, I mean, honestly, when I... pond and then move up here and honestly that's actually good advice yeah i mean honestly when i i mean my advice to anybody thinking about you know wanting to be a songwriter move i'm just

like get here as fast as you can you know but um i think that you know when i first moved here i was like man i all my friends are like 22 23 you. You know, like, I'm just, yeah, I'm definitely going to be playing covers for the rest of my life. Like, career's over. But, you know, you just never give up and you just keep going. And then everything's, you know, transpired as it is. So how did you get into, like, even playing covers and getting into bars and stuff like that?

Well, I got my first gig. My dad got it for me at this small bar that's probably two of these rooms put together and i play there every friday and saturday night for three years like i might miss it every now and then for like if there's like a football game or something going on yeah but so i play there forever you know just me and my acoustic guitar, no monitor, didn't even know what a monitor was. And then I decided that I wanted to start branching out. I started playing at the Mexican restaurant called Pablo's,

and there's three Pablo's in Birmingham. So after I played there for like two months, I was like, you think I could get on the other two? They put me on the other two, so I started playing those. And then I decided I wanted to start a band. And I put a band together, and we started playing at all the little bars. And then my dad passed away. And then after my dad passed away, I was like, man, something's got to give.

I've got to do something. Because my dad really was my inspiration. After my dad passed away, I ran off ambition that's all i had i felt like kind of because my dad used to tell me all the time he was like i'm an accountant i hate my life i hate my job uh do what you love for a living and that's awesome because most parents he was like he was like i know that music's gonna work out for you so just do it and like that's like what i held on to for forever you know yeah and um i called this guy that was like managing this local like jam band in birmingham and we met every day for like three months and uh not every day but once a month for like three months or once a week or something. And that's my manager.

He's been with me for seven years now. Aw, that's amazing. And it's just really cool because, like, you know, I have a team. I have a social media guy. But all those people have been with me before Dick Down and Down. I love that. That says a lot about you. Yeah. As, you know, as a person.

Like my guitar player that's been with me. Is that the one who you filmed with his wife in bed the other day? Big Dick Terry? No, that's, no, that's Ben. Ben's, like, Ben's been with me for a year, but Ben used to play with Riley Green, and, like, I opened for Riley, like, two or three years ago, and I met Ben, and I knew that, like, if I ever had, like, success to where I could, bring in like a music musical director and like somebody it was going to be ben yeah um because when i first moved town we used to ride together

i love that but big dick terry is uh we have a big dick dave in our crew yeah it's really big i mean it's huge what is it like he's like a tripod yeah i mean it's like it's it's how do we know i'm proud of it like it's mine have you you seen it? Yeah, I've seen it. I got videos and pictures. He just walks around fucking his dick swinging? Well, what happened was we played a show in Arkansas. This is the kind of stuff that perks my ears up. My crew's pretty rowdy.

Yeah, no, I love that. I might not drink, but they drink enough for me. Have you met my husband? Okay, like he's a nut, dude. So I know how you boys are when you guys get together. You met my husband, okay? He's a nut, dude. So I know how you boys are when you guys get together. We played in Arkansas, and Terry drank like...

Terry, my drummer, Matt, and bass player, they drank like a, I don't know, like a full bottle of Fireball and then a small bottle of Fireball within like three hours. Oh, Fireball's brutal. And Matt didn't grow up with brothers our drummer so like if you like grab his ass or something he like freaks out you know like he doesn't know what to

do but he got drunk it was like messing with terry so terry just like pulled his dick out and like started chasing around the hotel room and i had my phone and i just recorded the entire thing put it on my snapchat and then it just like became this thing i love that that is so fucking funny so i want to ask you what when you walked out to the biggest crowd that you've ever performed for how many people was it uh i think it's 25 000 people what the fuck does that feel like opening for morgan wallen in auburn we love morgan we love ernest mor all of them. And then the other thing, too, that was really cool was we played Rock the South, which is in my home state. Oh, awesome.

In Coleman. And my set kind of got rained out. And then they made me play Dick Down in Dallas Acoustic. In the rain? Yeah. What a vibe, though. They were like, your band can't come back on. But I had met DJ Silver earlier that day.

Aw. And he was like, man, I think that's bullshit, dude. I'm going to get you up during my set. Aw. And, like, he played, like, in between, like, Miranda. Yeah. So, like, the most people that were going to be there were there. Yeah.

You know, so. That's amazing. What does that feel like when you walk out on that? Honestly, like. That's so much energy, dude. It's a lot of energy, and I wish that I would have enjoyed it more, to be honest. I understand that. Like when I walk out there, in which I have learned to enjoy those kind of moments more.

But for a while there, we played 120-something mean we played 120 something shows last year yeah it's basically unheard of yeah from december of 2020 to 20 you know 21 but like a lot of the times i know that when we did the uh one of those shows i remember being on stage just thinking the whole time i hope i can do this again. You know, and just being in my head the entire time and not even enjoying the moment. You know? Mm-hmm. And that's a real thing.

But, like, it's like now I have those memories and I have those videos and I look back on them and I'm just like. Mind blown. 25,000 people screaming Dick Down in Dallas. It's crazy. We played this show up in Wisconsin or something like that. It was with Jake Owen and Travis Denning and one other artist. But we were the first of four. I'm talking little kids on top of their dad's shoulders screaming every word to Dick Donovan Dallas. I've never been to a show where the first of four, everybody in the crowd knows there's something.

Yeah. No, it's insane. it's been really cool done a lot of cool things i i honestly like i like opening for artists and that's cool but like my favorite thing is going to these like smaller clubs and and and selling you know tickets to people that are there to come see me and then doing a free meet and greet after the show that's what i do because i i'm just like at the point where like i still feel like a normal person yes and i'm just like if you're gonna like buy a ticket if you're gonna stream my music if you're gonna share my shit like you know like i have a song coming out like uh on the 14th and like people are going to actually buy that song.

They're buying it. Yeah, totally. People actually bought Dig Down in Dallas to make it go number one. Nobody buys music anymore. Yeah, because you can stream. It's just like my thing is if you're going to do that for me, if you're going to believe in me that much, I'm at least going gonna shake your damn hand

yeah you know you build your your empire and your fan base one by one yeah and it's just like i don't care you know like i said i used to play for four hours straight i don't help with load in and load out anymore i mean you shouldn't have to you know you are in that right yeah i mean i i don't help do that anymore but i will if it needs to be. No, that's how my husband is too. The way I look at it is I used to play for four hours straight. I can go to sound check. I can go play my 90-minute set. I can get done.

I can get off stage, change my shirt. Usually, if the crowd earns it, I take my shirt off and throw it out to the crowd. Yeah. So find a shirt, go to the merch booth shake everybody's hand i don't care if it takes an hour and a half but that's my work you know what i mean like that's what i'm doing so um it's definitely been uh fun there's been shows where we've showed up to places and there wasn't you know 20 people there you know that's part of it but that's just part of it you know you never know like no my husband when my husband and i first got together i remember we did a show

and i think it was like delaware in the middle of fucking nowhere and there was 10 people there yeah and he still put on a show like it was fucking 8 000 people there you know now he's selling out arenas so i mean that shit is i see him he's he's my boobie just that opry thing was like so awesome that was like dude i got to go like that's one of my goals like in my life is to play the opry you will and i know that it's like probably like not gonna happen with the dick down in dallas thing it will happen my husband if i can used to be a trap rapper you know like please you're definitely gonna get that's like i don't know i got to go to the opry and hang out with my do you know dylan carmichael um i've heard the name i don't know i got to hang out with him we're good we met over quarantine we're good buddies

i'm a west coast girl so all this country shit is like yeah you know i'm not in that scene but i got to watch him like he played the opry and his mom got up there and sang a song with him. He got a standing ovation. And it was just like... Something about that place is like... Spiritual. Spiritual, yeah. And the Ryman, too.

The Ryman is fucking like... You just walk in there and you can just feel the energy there. It's just insane. It's overwhelming. There's a video of Chris Jansen, like getting asked to join the Opry and he like belts down, you know, like starts crying. But when they told your husband that he was going to be, you know, when he played, he was like, couldn't believe it.

No, he started crying too. You can't explain that moment until that happens. No, because they really blindsided him. He didn't expect it at all. But your time is coming too. We'll see. We'll see, you know. Well, what can we expect from Trey Lewis this next coming year?

So I got in a fight with my ex-girlfriend. We were dating at the time a few weeks ago. And I went to my right the next day and I wrote this song. And I put it on TikTok. And it's like popping off right now. It's called Single Again? It's called Single Again. It's got like the middle finger and the kiss my ass. Yeah. Like it's like a total tiktok thing so are you guys so are you single again i'm single

right now but are you is it a toxic relationship are you guys like going back and forth or it was definitely not a toxic relationship yeah i think i definitely pushed her away so when's your birthday december 5th oh you're a sagittarius like my husband. He's December 4th. Yeah. Oh, okay. I already know your kind. You guys are wild. I don't know.

We're cool. We're trying to figure it out. We'll see what happens. Yeah. When's her birthday? I feel like I'm really working on myself. And I feel like I'm really working on myself and like, I feel like I'm, you know, with this new, I have a new therapist and I feel like with the,

the work I'm doing, like some really groundbreaking shit. Like, have you ever been diagnosed with any, with any mental, mental illness? No, I think all my,

my shit's situational and trauma based. Right. Me too. I've not, I've, I've been diagnosed with anxiety and depression, but I won't go to a psychiatrist because I've dated people that are like bipolar and i'm not like that yeah same i just i the medication scares me so i try to do everything naturally exactly i love that you're

putting in the work though because most men don't know to do that yeah i think that you're an amazing role model for men to to know that it's okay to not be okay and it's okay to ask for help. Yeah, I just want to, like, I want to, like, I always want to do music. And I know that, like, to be able to do that, I have to be the best version of myself. You're very self-aware. Because, like, without my sobriety, I'm nothing. And I'm 110% convinced of that. And I can be very miserable in sobriety.

Sodriety is what I like to call it. So if I'm not keeping a check on those things. And, you know, it's like I am 34. And it's like I feel like you're either growing or you're going backwards. So it's like there's no like stand still regression or regression for me you know what i mean and like that's my like all or nothing kind of behavior but it's like i feel like with almost a decade and a half of sobriety like i've grown a lot yeah you know and like a lot of what what i've grown through and talked about some people are

like are you kidding me you're not railing a bitch every night on the road like you know what i've grown through and talked about some people are like are you kidding me you're not railing a bitch every night on the road like you know what i mean and like it's like there's that side of me that wants to say yeah man like yeah i'm just out here getting it you know but like no the real me that ain't me you know i mean that just ain't how i roll i love that you're staying true to who you are you were talking about um the singled again going viral on tiktok yeah what um do you plan on doing with that like just riding the wave and yeah i'm just gonna put it out i mean hopefully enough people buy it to to make it go number one again yeah um i think it's cool like i mean it's a real song like i mean we got in a fight and the next day i had a right and we weren't broken up yet

but i like i don't know i didn't have any song ideas and then on the way over there i was like looks like i'm single again i started singing that and they were like y'all got any song you got any song ideas and i was like looks like i'm single again they were like love it we wrote it an hour and a half and i like the like little demo track that matt mcvee did on it so well i was like just produce it out man because i've got too much shit going on the studio just like yeah i trust you with it take care of it isn't that amazing where inspiration can come from and then you know he sent it and then i put it on tiktok like december 13th just like a video of me singing the chorus and even that video doesn't have a ton of views but like i

checked it this morning it's like 24 000 videos made yeah that's crazy yeah that's awesome and dig down at alice only had 20 000 videos wow so that's amazing not that that's a gauge for anything because you can't compare anything but it's still pretty cool that's amazing that's listen tiktok is what makes fucking artists go like youtube is cool and all if you're a musician but if you're a content creator there's no money there and like nobody's getting picked up off of i mean they might still be getting picked up off youtube but it's tiktok now you know tiktok has literally taken over we're gonna put that song out on the 14th and after that i'm putting a song out every six weeks for the rest of the year good and for

however long i want to are you going to tour the uh this year yeah so i got some really cool news today but i can't share it i really want to i'll tell you when we turn the cameras off okay but i'm going on tour with a big artist which is really cool for me because um this probably actually won't come out for a while cool so if you want to say it you can yeah. Yeah, I don't want to say it and then jinx it. But I just like, I don't know. It was just for a while it was hard to find an artist that would be willing to put me on a tour because a lot of artists that were on labels didn't want to be associated with the dicks and the butt fucks.

Which is really stupid. You know what I mean? I hate the whole music row thing and that's one thing that my husband is he's you know middle finger to music row because it's like they just want to box everybody in and make everybody cookie cutter yeah what's like that's boring you know we played the 120 shows that we did last year but eventually at some point you got to get on with like you know an artist that can really like you know shake shit up you know shake shit up for you and and uh nobody was willing to do that i mean right now up until today we had like two dates on the calendar for next year so i was like fuck we're gonna have to get like a new agent or like you

know i just told my agent i was like fuck omnicron i'm gonna have a number one song and then everything took off so do you feel like dick down in dallas has kind of pigeonholed you slightly or do you feel like not really you know i mean i signed a publishing deal with sony uh publishing so like i feel like rusty and all them they all like believe in me enough to think that i could eventually have songs on the radio. And, you know, I mean, they wouldn't just, you know, want some of my publishing for just never, for streaming.

You know what I mean? Because I don't pay shit. So, like, you know, they believe in me, so I think that, like, that's cool. And I feel like labels don't ever, like, they don't build artists anymore. That's something you gotta do on your own. Yeah, they want you to come fully packaged. come and i'm cool with that because my price tag is gonna be a little bit higher than a 360 deal price one up yep so if i'm gonna build it but like honestly feel like

at sony uh publishing like they're also building help they're part of the build too they're part of the team you know um helping me you know like setting me up with the riots or like yeah you know helping me find songs because i'm willing to cut songs that i didn't write you know what i mean yeah totally but i also like writing my own songs as well um but i don't know it's just been been a cool experience um i'm grateful that i didn't sign a record deal straight out the rip because I was definitely offered a lot. Yep. But I wouldn't have learned everything that I've learned on my own.

I wouldn't have been able to play as many shows as I have, you know. And just, you know, it's been great. So 2020, you have this big tour that's coming up, and then you have songs that you're going to be dropping every six weeks what does your personal life look like though my personal life is uh i did tell my agent i want one weekend off a month so i can go fishing oh yeah so um kind of like brings you back down to yeah i love I love fishing. I bought a bass boat, paid cash for it. It was awesome.

It's like the only nice thing that I really bought myself. You're just like a sweet little down boy. Yeah, I mean, I'm still driving my dad's hand-me-down car. Like, I could go buy a new truck, but, like, I just don't care about that stuff anymore. You know? Yeah. Like. What about dating now that you're single again? Dating.

What is dating in Nashville like for guys? I always hear about it from all the IG models. You know, we're outnumbered and there's just a ton of horny girls out there that want to screw. It's not true at all. Like maybe for other people. I don't know. You know, it's weird for me because like sometimes I find myself talking to females that like I know that if my song wasn't Dick Down in Dallas, like, know they wouldn't even be talking to me so it's like i just gotta find somebody that's like that's gotta be hard for men you know to like not be able to know like why women are in your life

or what their intentions are yeah it's gotta be fucking stressful it's really easy they weed themselves out really fast do they you know like sometimes i'll like meet a girl i think she's cool until she calls me at two in the morning and facetimes me to sing me dick down in dallas you know what i mean it's like that's cool deleted deleted blocked but like i'm grateful ladies don't facetime trey at two o'clock in the morning i'm grateful for it you know what i mean like it's cool i'm glad you like the song and then then, like, you know what I mean? Yeah, but if you're with me, be with me. Yeah, be with me.

So, it's cool. So, like, you know, I don't know. I mean, honestly, sometimes I go out to the bar and, like, I'll be, like, thinking a girl's hitting on me. But, like, I'm just, like, at a point in my life where, like, I'm cool with, like, being married to my career. Yeah. And, like, being by myself, like. That's when love will come along and you least expect it i'm just like doing yourself and just i'm not not focused on that i'm just not i don't even care anymore like yeah i was i was talking to my buddy about it the other day i was like dude like i was like you know i have a

lot of dreams that have came true you know maybe love maybe love's just not for me, man. It is. I'm just kidding around. But you know what I'm saying? You're a sweet guy, and you're good looking, and you have a fucking amazing voice. And you're a Sagittarius. Women love Sagittarius men. Yeah, I've got that app on my phone, the horoscope. I paid for it.

Yeah. You need an Aquarius woman? I need to read more about it. You need an Aquarius woman? That's me, because Jay and I are Sag and Aquarius. Or you need a Gemini woman. Gemini and Saj is like soulmate signs. Nice. Yeah.

Well, Trey, I am so excited to see what you do in 2022. Like you've already fucking been kicking ass these past couple of years. So I can't wait till you can drop the announcement too and tell everybody who you're going to be on tour with. And you got to promise me that you're going to come back here and remember us little people of course i'll always come back but are we allowed to talk about you starting your podcast yeah i'm starting a podcast it's going to be called dm monday yay oh so are you going to read the dms and stuff like that dms i think like when we have guests on like we'll have them they got to be people like i'm sure you have crazy ass dms oh yeah no for sure i you should hear the i a lot of IgE models and porn stars that come on here too.

And the shit that fucking the stories they have is just, are they're hilarious. So when do you think you're going to be launching it? So I think we're doing our, I'm not sure. I know we're doing our first episode like next month. Yay. Well,

everybody be on the lookout and it's going to be called what again? DM Monday. DM Monday. And so I'm assuming you're going to be called what again? DM Monday. DM Monday. And so I'm assuming you're going to be dropping on Mondays. Yeah. Okay. I think it'll be every other week.

Oh, very cool. Because I'll be busy with like tour and stuff. Yeah, for sure. So that'll give me time to like. Totally. Or you could do what we do and we literally just film for like weeks and then just that way you have a break. That's cool. I advise everybody because we've been, this is, this will be our fourth season and you

just film like 25 episodes and then you don't have to even. And then you're done with it. Yep, and then just do another run. Well, Trey, tell people where they can find you, your social medias. Tour dates on my website, treylewismusic.com. We have merchandise on there as well. By the way, if you want some, I'll send you some. Aw, thank you.

Same. We have tons of stuff too, so we'll trade. And then my Instagram is at treylewismusic. if you want some i'll send you oh thank you same we have tons of stuff too so we'll trade and then um and then uh my instagram is at trey lewis music tiktok's trey lewis music facebook which i mean nobody gets on facebook anymore except to like do paid promotions but it's just trey i'm gonna talk to you about facebook whenever we get off of here so i can tell you all about it but yeah that's where i'm at um that's my social medias uh i try to do twitter but i'm just not that good yeah twitter but if you like tweet me or something i will you know i might not like it day of but i'll get on twitter every few days and

like like stuff and retweet it i just don't think about it that much i don't have my notifications i only go on twitter for porn yeah literally there's just porn everywhere on there i mean maybe it's just because all the girls i follow though well during quarantine they gave out a free pornhub subscription did they yeah and then then you eventually had to pay for it but i haven't fuck did i miss that how did i miss the pornhub subscription yeah well thank you trey and thank you guys for tuning in to another episode of dumb blonde i will see you guys next week bye