Trey Lewis

Trey Lewis built a reputation as a candid, no-nonsense singer and songwriter whose style draws from Southern rock and country traditions. After years as a local bar performer, he achieved sudden widespread attention in 2020 through the explicit single “Dicked Down in Dallas,” which topped charts and spread rapidly online. Two years afterward he repeated that success with the gritty “Single Again,” then issued his first full album, Troublemaker, in 2024.

Raised in Birmingham, Alabama, Lewis aimed at a country career from childhood onward, naming Garth Brooks among his earliest influences. During adolescence he absorbed the work of Percy Sledge, Carole King, Bill Withers, and Clint Black. Substance difficulties troubled his late teenage years, yet he achieved sobriety by age twenty and began playing guitar. The following ten years found him in Nashville clubs, composing material and delivering a self-titled debut album in 2013.

While in that city he connected with songwriters Brent Gafford, Drew Trosclair, and Matt McKinney, who suggested the premise for a track initially called “Going Back to Dallas.” Aware of Lewis’s habit of adding profanity to covers during live sets, the three writers revised the song accordingly. Issued in 2020, the resulting “Dicked Down in Dallas,” which catalogued a vivid series of sexual encounters, gained viral traction once listeners posted inventive clips on social platforms. The single debuted at number twelve on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart and reached number two on Canada’s digital ranking.

Lewis released the EP Shut the Door in 2022, highlighted by its suggestive title song. Later the same year the independent single “Single Man” again led digital charts. Three additional releases marked by his characteristic humor—“Up Yours” and “Pretty Hungover” among them—preceded Troublemaker’s arrival in 2024.