October 16, 2025 • 14 mins
Tucker Wetmore is a great new artist and his first song, Wind Up Missing You" went to number one! He's got 1 billion streams and a 2× platinum certification for that song. Learn about how he went from growing up in Washington State to playing college football and how he ended up in Nashville. Also get some of the inside scoop on a couple of his song, his debut album and how be preps for a show!
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Speaker 1 (00:11):
Idiots. Scotti, thanks for checking in on the podcast. I
have got Tucker Wetmore here, a fantastic new artist that
I absolutely love. We're gonna learn all about Tucker Wetmore. So, Buddy,
let's start at the beginning. You taught yourself to play
piano at age eleven.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Yeah, man, you know, I I so.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
I grew up in Washington and like the Southwest part,
so like and out in the you know, very small town,
and I wouldn't.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Have traded traded it for the world. It was.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
It was such a fun, you know, it was it
was so fun growing up in a place that's so
beautiful and surrounded by you know, wildlife and and and
you know, it's a it's a rainforest out there, so
it's it was such a blessing. And in regards to
DJ miself piano, one day, I just sat down and
started playing, you know, And that's that's pretty much the
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simplicity behind it. There wasn't, you know, anybody pushed me
to play. There wasn't anybody that I knew that really played.
It was just it was just me falling in love
with the instrument. And I would sit there and play
for hours and hours every single day for years, dude.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
And you know, I just it was it was my
first love. You know, I'm all self taught.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
I just I learned a lot by ear, watching YouTube
videos or whatnot. The fact that I get to do
that pretty much every day in my life now is
is a blessing.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Man.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
That is That is awesome. I tried to learn piano
and I was about the same age as you, and
it was a struggle. And I absolutely believe that some
people are intended to do it and some are not.
You were, I was not.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Well, I'll teach you some chords next time. I see.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
That's awesome. So then you played football and talk a
little bit about you know what happened with football. I
know that's a passion for you. I've heard you talk
about it, you know elsewhere about you know how you
still miss it and everything. So what happened there? And
how does football turn into I'm gonna move to Nashville.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
Like I said, I was playing music and it wasn't
for anybody else.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
It was just just for me.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
And I grew up playing sports, baseball, football, track, a
little bit of basketball.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
I wasn't too great at basketball, so I quit it.
But you know, football was my main drive. And I
ended up going to college in Montana at uh you know,
in a town called Butte and to play football, and
I thought that was my my end game, you know.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
I was like, I'm I'm gonna I'm gonna work towards this,
I'm gonna do this, and this is my goal.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
And God had other plans.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
Ended up breaking my breaking my leg for the third
time at the end of my freshman year, and I
was like, I need to maybe hang up the cleats.
I think it's about time I keep getting injured. And
so I moved back home and then music just found
me again. And I remember sitting down, sitting my mom down.
I was like, Mom, I'm so lost. I don't know
what I'm doing with my life. And she goes, when's
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the last time he played your piano or picked up
your guitar or whatever. And I was like, Mom, it's
it's probably like a year and a half since I've
even you know, played an instrument.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
She was like, why don't you go Why don't you.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Just go do that? That was your therapy back in
the day. Maybe we'll get some answers from that. Then,
so I ended up writing my first song that night,
and I didn't look back. I was like, this is
this is it, you know, this is what I've been missing.
This is the feeling of missing something. This is where
it's been semming from, is you know, the lack of music.
And you know, I didn't look back. I started writing
a bunch by myself, and then I remember setting my
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mom down again like six months later. I was like,
I'm I want to do this. She goes, all right,
go do it. So that's why I moved to Nashville.
And I didn't know anybody. I didn't know anything. I
just had a handful of songs. They were awful songs,
but I had a handful of songs and a dream
and a goal, and so I moved to Nashville when
I was about twenty years old and then off to
the races.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Yeah pretty much. Yeah, you had your first big hit
a year ago.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Was it?
Speaker 3 (03:49):
I think, oh, yeah, you know, I dropped my first
song beginning of last year, and then draw wind up
Missing You after that, and then it went ended up
going number one in January top of this year, and uh,
you know, it's it's crazy to think about all of
the stuff that's happened in the last year.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
And a half. It's it's all just a blessing. Man.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
I'm just so blessed to be you know, breathing for
one but you know, and doing what I what I
love every single day, and it's it's so cool.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Well, and I think I remember when I first heard
wind Up Missing You. I thought, you know, there's certain
songs that you know, as an air talent on radio
stations sometimes I like, there, that's a number one hit
right there, wind Up Missing You as one of these
that I was like the second I heard it, I'm like,
that's going to be a number one song.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
I love that, man. That makes me so happy.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Now, the question is, when you wrote it, worked on
in the studio, released it, did you think the same thing.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
We knew it was cool for sure.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
I didn't know it was going to have the success
that it's had and continues to have.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
But we knew it felt really special.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
We knew it sounded different, and it was you know,
I was in in a time of trying to find
my sound and you know, trying to really tone in
on like what.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
The sound is.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
And then we wrote that one.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
I was like, this is it. This is this is
what I've been chasing.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
And uh, we definitely knew a special in the room,
especially that day we listened back to it and we're like,
and it's real cool, guys, and uh, but I didn't
know it was gonna I didn't know what it was
going to do.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Post that, I just knew. I was really proud of it,
you know, in the room.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
But I'm I'm thanking God every day that people like
it just as much as I do.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
You put you on the map, yeah, just like just
like Cruise did for Florida Georgia line way back then
and so on. Right, So three two one's your your
current song? Anything we should know about that? One of
my listener says, ask him, there's a story behind that song.
So I don't know what it is.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
So now I'm asking, Yeah, so you know that song?
What I So?
Speaker 3 (05:50):
That was an outside song and a bunch of my
buddies wrote it and they sent it to me and
they knew I was working on the album and they're like, hey,
I think this is you know, you would sound real
good on this, and I ended up listening to it.
I was like, this is a smash. I love this song.
And then I started listening to lyrics a little bit more.
I was like, Wow, this is like kind of where
I'm at in my life right now.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
You know. I was kind of going through a breakup
at the time, and you know, in.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
That headspace of like, did I make the right decision?
Speaker 2 (06:16):
Is that the one that got away? YadA YadA.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
And I'm a sucker for feel good songs, and I
especially love when there's like a give and take, when
the lyrics saying something, but the music itself is making
me feel something else, and that's definitely what the song's doing.
So I just fell in love with it and I
related to it, you know back then.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
I still kind of relate to it now. But it's
just a good song. I love.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Yeah, audience loves it. It's climbing the charts, so I heard.
So the album is called What Not To? Is there
anything else on the album? Is there something that you
really want us to hear? A song that's super personal
on the album?
Speaker 2 (06:58):
I'm in the whole album.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
So my whole thought process behind my first album was
I feel like, like you said earlier, I feel like
everything happened so fast last year and nobody really got
the chance to get to know me and who I
am or where I come from, why I am the way
I am, and so that was my whole thought behind it.
So if you listen down, it's just it's stating facts
about my life before, you know, moving to Nashville and
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you know, all this stuff, and you know, there's definitely
some standout songs that are very personal to me, like
what Not To That's that's one of the most that's
probably the deepest song, partest song I've ever been a
part of. But it's speaking truth about you know, some
things that I don't really talk about about my personal life.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
But that's why I write songs so I don't have
to talk about things.
Speaker 4 (07:40):
And you know, it's, uh, there's it's it's cool and
it's cool to see people like, understand, oh this song
goes with this song And he said this one line
because of this song is you.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
Know, it's it's kind of just like a spider web
all connecting with each other, and it's it's cool to
see people kind of decipher the things that I intentionally
did within the album.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
You know what's funny about that is that you know
you're telling a story, but you know, obviously you're not
telling us the whole story, but you're telling us the
you know, a certain part of the story like that, right,
so you expose a little bit but not all of it.
And you know, and it is funny how your fans
in the audience read in a bunch of things that
are you know, that are not really there, but you're
you're leaving these little you know. It's but it's part
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of the creative process how we consume music, right. We
apply our own life experiences to something you're telling us
in the song, and they're they start connecting tucker dots
that are not really there.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Yeah, exactly. It's it's funny to see and it's uh, but.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
It's cool to see at the same time because sometimes
they'll point out something that I didn't intentionally do. I
was like, no, that absolutely, Like that's that's part of
the story and that's that's it's cool that you picked
up on that before I did. And you know, it's
just I love the album creation process and you know,
I feel like you you get a sense of what
an artist is feeling with one song, but you get it,
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you know, a real look inside their head and their
heart with the full album. And that's the way I
kind of look at the album creation process.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
And so you sold out the Ryman not too long ago,
billion streams, platinum, wind up missing you. How does that
feel all of a sudden You've done this awfully fast
in your career, Like we've talked about before, What does
that feel like standing on the Ryman stage? Is it?
You know, are the nerves just terrible, like right before
you go on? Or are you like, no, I got this, dude.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
I was terrified. It was.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
It was so scary, but it was like it wasn't
a sense of like doubtful scariness. It was more of
like an excitement scariness, you know. And there's so much
history when it comes to the Ryman, you know, places
like the Ryman or the Opry or whatever it is.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Doesn't matter how many times I.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
Play those those stages, it's it's gonna be a little
nerve wrecking, you know. And just because of the history
and what it stands for, and you know, the the
fact that it's had those stages have had on you know,
the country music scene and just to be a part
of its history is just the coolest thing in the
world to me.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
You know that that people trust me to you.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
Know, kind of carry on a piece of history and
it's it's really cool.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
The other thing about the Ryman is you got a
whole bunch of your you know, fellow country artists sitting there.
You know, you think they're critiquing. They're really not. They're
just enjoying, you know, you do your thing. But you're thinking, oh,
they're right there, somebody's writing something down, they're texting on
their phone about oh we missed this or did that
or you know whatever.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
Nerve.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
You know, every time I get the chance to play
in Nashville, I'm like, I don't dread it because I
love playing in Nashville.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
But it's it's you know, there's a different level of.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
You know, nerves that come with it just because of
like the industries there.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
You know, people that you look up to or there
or whatever it is.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
And Nashville shows are scary, but they are fun and
I love every time I get to play in that.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
So, on the tours that you've been doing so far,
do you have any kind of ritual now that you've
played the rhyme and you can sort of have your
nerves under control ish, But is there like a certain
warm up that you go through food. You know, a
lot of artists do alcohol. Many don't. What gets you ready,
you know, because you know you still got to get
ready to get on the stage, and there's always nerves, right.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Yeah, no, one hundred percent. So we do this. We
do this before every show, We do a shot in prayer.
So I'll get everybody in a.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
Circle and well, I'll usually give them a pep talk,
like like the quarterback would before going out on the field.
And I'll give everybody a pep talk, tell them how
much I appreciate them, you know, just remind them while
we're here why we do what we do and why we.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
Love what we're doing.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
And then we'll go around, and I'm very glorying to
make everybody say a goal that they have for the night,
whether it's something they learned from the night before or
something that they want to try new or whatever it is.
Go around a circle, everybody says a goal, and then
we'll our heads. I'll lead, I'll lead prayer every night,
and then we'll take a shot, and I'll choose somebody
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new every night to say the toast for the shot,
and then we'll hit the stage and by that time.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
We're pretty fired up and ready to ready to go
play a show.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Nice. That's a great It's a great ritual though, because
you're channeling the energy and you're also taking a little
bit of the edge off with the shot. What's the
favorite shot for.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
You, Jack Daniels? Every night?
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Oh no, College took took me out on Jack Daniels.
I gotta say there was a few experiences that I'm
sure you know how they ended. Yeah, Jack Daniels. So
I even to this day, I still can't drink Jack Daniel. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
No, that's pretty much the only time I touched Jack
is you know, the little shot that we take before
the show.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
I don't. I don't really indulge too much in the
in the hard stuff. I try not too, but there
are there are.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Times, right you gotta celebrate.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
So collaborations everybody sort of does him now And I
read somewhere Sabrina Carpenter is on your list? Is that true?
Speaker 2 (13:02):
Oh? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (13:02):
And what are kind of your both in genre and
out of genre collabs that you'd like to do?
Speaker 3 (13:08):
I mean, a song with Sabrina would be awesome, you know,
I'm I'm a huge fan of what she does and
the culture that she's building and you know her songs.
Her songs make you feel something, all of them, and
I think that's a huge part of what music is,
if it's making you feel something and it's doing its job,
and you know, I think if we got in a
room together and worked on something, I think we could
figure out something real cool.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
I think Kelsey Ballerini would be really cool. I'm open
to everything.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
I just love I love music, and I love good songs,
and obviously all it all.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
Starts with the song.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
You could you could pick out the coolest person in
the room, but if the song's not right, it's not
gonna be right. And I'm definitely very song oriented, but
I like, I like to have things happen organically and naturally.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
I could see Kelsey Ballerini. I remember when she was
where you are in your career now. She's one of
my favorites too. And Laney also.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
La great too. Yeah, just great people.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
So this might be the first time somebody is seeing you.
What can we expect at a Tucker Wetmore show?
Speaker 2 (14:05):
Just a party the whole time from top down.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
Everybody's having a good time, moving around, jumping, waving their hands,
whatever it is.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
I want it to be just a party from start
to finish.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
And I can say from personal experience, I saw Tucker
in April shows tight, solid, really good. You will have
a really really good time.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
That's good. I love that. That makes that did my job.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Thanks Tucker for talking with us. We appreciate you so much.
Good luck on the tour and on the shows and
on the album.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
And well, thank you brother, thanks for having me.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
Yeah, no problem, Thanks Tucker, appreciate you.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
Yeah, thank you, brother, and enjoy your weekend.
Idiots. Scotti, thanks for checking in on the podcast. I
have got Tucker Wetmore here, a fantastic new artist that
I absolutely love. We're gonna learn all about Tucker Wetmore. So, Buddy,
let's start at the beginning. You taught yourself to play
piano at age eleven.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Yeah, man, you know, I I so.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
I grew up in Washington and like the Southwest part,
so like and out in the you know, very small town,
and I wouldn't.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Have traded traded it for the world. It was.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
It was such a fun, you know, it was it
was so fun growing up in a place that's so
beautiful and surrounded by you know, wildlife and and and
you know, it's a it's a rainforest out there, so
it's it was such a blessing. And in regards to
DJ miself piano, one day, I just sat down and
started playing, you know, And that's that's pretty much the
(01:03):
simplicity behind it. There wasn't, you know, anybody pushed me
to play. There wasn't anybody that I knew that really played.
It was just it was just me falling in love
with the instrument. And I would sit there and play
for hours and hours every single day for years, dude.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
And you know, I just it was it was my
first love. You know, I'm all self taught.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
I just I learned a lot by ear, watching YouTube
videos or whatnot. The fact that I get to do
that pretty much every day in my life now is
is a blessing.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Man.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
That is That is awesome. I tried to learn piano
and I was about the same age as you, and
it was a struggle. And I absolutely believe that some
people are intended to do it and some are not.
You were, I was not.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Well, I'll teach you some chords next time. I see.
Speaker 1 (01:46):
That's awesome. So then you played football and talk a
little bit about you know what happened with football. I
know that's a passion for you. I've heard you talk
about it, you know elsewhere about you know how you
still miss it and everything. So what happened there? And
how does football turn into I'm gonna move to Nashville.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
Like I said, I was playing music and it wasn't
for anybody else.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
It was just just for me.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
And I grew up playing sports, baseball, football, track, a
little bit of basketball.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
I wasn't too great at basketball, so I quit it.
But you know, football was my main drive. And I
ended up going to college in Montana at uh you know,
in a town called Butte and to play football, and
I thought that was my my end game, you know.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
I was like, I'm I'm gonna I'm gonna work towards this,
I'm gonna do this, and this is my goal.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
And God had other plans.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
Ended up breaking my breaking my leg for the third
time at the end of my freshman year, and I
was like, I need to maybe hang up the cleats.
I think it's about time I keep getting injured. And
so I moved back home and then music just found
me again. And I remember sitting down, sitting my mom down.
I was like, Mom, I'm so lost. I don't know
what I'm doing with my life. And she goes, when's
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the last time he played your piano or picked up
your guitar or whatever. And I was like, Mom, it's
it's probably like a year and a half since I've
even you know, played an instrument.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
She was like, why don't you go Why don't you.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Just go do that? That was your therapy back in
the day. Maybe we'll get some answers from that. Then,
so I ended up writing my first song that night,
and I didn't look back. I was like, this is
this is it, you know, this is what I've been missing.
This is the feeling of missing something. This is where
it's been semming from, is you know, the lack of music.
And you know, I didn't look back. I started writing
a bunch by myself, and then I remember setting my
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mom down again like six months later. I was like,
I'm I want to do this. She goes, all right,
go do it. So that's why I moved to Nashville.
And I didn't know anybody. I didn't know anything. I
just had a handful of songs. They were awful songs,
but I had a handful of songs and a dream
and a goal, and so I moved to Nashville when
I was about twenty years old and then off to
the races.
Speaker 1 (03:45):
Yeah pretty much. Yeah, you had your first big hit
a year ago.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Was it?
Speaker 3 (03:49):
I think, oh, yeah, you know, I dropped my first
song beginning of last year, and then draw wind up
Missing You after that, and then it went ended up
going number one in January top of this year, and uh,
you know, it's it's crazy to think about all of
the stuff that's happened in the last year.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
And a half. It's it's all just a blessing. Man.
Speaker 3 (04:13):
I'm just so blessed to be you know, breathing for
one but you know, and doing what I what I
love every single day, and it's it's so cool.
Speaker 1 (04:20):
Well, and I think I remember when I first heard
wind Up Missing You. I thought, you know, there's certain
songs that you know, as an air talent on radio
stations sometimes I like, there, that's a number one hit
right there, wind Up Missing You as one of these
that I was like the second I heard it, I'm like,
that's going to be a number one song.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
I love that, man. That makes me so happy.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Now, the question is, when you wrote it, worked on
in the studio, released it, did you think the same thing.
Speaker 2 (04:45):
We knew it was cool for sure.
Speaker 3 (04:47):
I didn't know it was going to have the success
that it's had and continues to have.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
But we knew it felt really special.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
We knew it sounded different, and it was you know,
I was in in a time of trying to find
my sound and you know, trying to really tone in
on like what.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
The sound is.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
And then we wrote that one.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
I was like, this is it. This is this is
what I've been chasing.
Speaker 3 (05:09):
And uh, we definitely knew a special in the room,
especially that day we listened back to it and we're like,
and it's real cool, guys, and uh, but I didn't
know it was gonna I didn't know what it was
going to do.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
Post that, I just knew. I was really proud of it,
you know, in the room.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
But I'm I'm thanking God every day that people like
it just as much as I do.
Speaker 1 (05:28):
You put you on the map, yeah, just like just
like Cruise did for Florida Georgia line way back then
and so on. Right, So three two one's your your
current song? Anything we should know about that? One of
my listener says, ask him, there's a story behind that song.
So I don't know what it is.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
So now I'm asking, Yeah, so you know that song?
What I So?
Speaker 3 (05:50):
That was an outside song and a bunch of my
buddies wrote it and they sent it to me and
they knew I was working on the album and they're like, hey,
I think this is you know, you would sound real
good on this, and I ended up listening to it.
I was like, this is a smash. I love this song.
And then I started listening to lyrics a little bit more.
I was like, Wow, this is like kind of where
I'm at in my life right now.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
You know. I was kind of going through a breakup
at the time, and you know, in.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
That headspace of like, did I make the right decision?
Speaker 2 (06:16):
Is that the one that got away? YadA YadA.
Speaker 3 (06:19):
And I'm a sucker for feel good songs, and I
especially love when there's like a give and take, when
the lyrics saying something, but the music itself is making
me feel something else, and that's definitely what the song's doing.
So I just fell in love with it and I
related to it, you know back then.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
I still kind of relate to it now. But it's
just a good song. I love.
Speaker 1 (06:43):
Yeah, audience loves it. It's climbing the charts, so I heard.
So the album is called What Not To? Is there
anything else on the album? Is there something that you
really want us to hear? A song that's super personal
on the album?
Speaker 2 (06:58):
I'm in the whole album.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
So my whole thought process behind my first album was
I feel like, like you said earlier, I feel like
everything happened so fast last year and nobody really got
the chance to get to know me and who I
am or where I come from, why I am the way
I am, and so that was my whole thought behind it.
So if you listen down, it's just it's stating facts
about my life before, you know, moving to Nashville and
(07:21):
you know, all this stuff, and you know, there's definitely
some standout songs that are very personal to me, like
what Not To That's that's one of the most that's
probably the deepest song, partest song I've ever been a
part of. But it's speaking truth about you know, some
things that I don't really talk about about my personal life.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
But that's why I write songs so I don't have
to talk about things.
Speaker 4 (07:40):
And you know, it's, uh, there's it's it's cool and
it's cool to see people like, understand, oh this song
goes with this song And he said this one line
because of this song is you.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
Know, it's it's kind of just like a spider web
all connecting with each other, and it's it's cool to
see people kind of decipher the things that I intentionally
did within the album.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
You know what's funny about that is that you know
you're telling a story, but you know, obviously you're not
telling us the whole story, but you're telling us the
you know, a certain part of the story like that, right,
so you expose a little bit but not all of it.
And you know, and it is funny how your fans
in the audience read in a bunch of things that
are you know, that are not really there, but you're
you're leaving these little you know. It's but it's part
(08:23):
of the creative process how we consume music, right. We
apply our own life experiences to something you're telling us
in the song, and they're they start connecting tucker dots
that are not really there.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Yeah, exactly. It's it's funny to see and it's uh, but.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
It's cool to see at the same time because sometimes
they'll point out something that I didn't intentionally do. I
was like, no, that absolutely, Like that's that's part of
the story and that's that's it's cool that you picked
up on that before I did. And you know, it's
just I love the album creation process and you know,
I feel like you you get a sense of what
an artist is feeling with one song, but you get it,
(09:00):
you know, a real look inside their head and their
heart with the full album. And that's the way I
kind of look at the album creation process.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
And so you sold out the Ryman not too long ago,
billion streams, platinum, wind up missing you. How does that
feel all of a sudden You've done this awfully fast
in your career, Like we've talked about before, What does
that feel like standing on the Ryman stage? Is it?
You know, are the nerves just terrible, like right before
you go on? Or are you like, no, I got this, dude.
Speaker 2 (09:30):
I was terrified. It was.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
It was so scary, but it was like it wasn't
a sense of like doubtful scariness. It was more of
like an excitement scariness, you know. And there's so much
history when it comes to the Ryman, you know, places
like the Ryman or the Opry or whatever it is.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Doesn't matter how many times I.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
Play those those stages, it's it's gonna be a little
nerve wrecking, you know. And just because of the history
and what it stands for, and you know, the the
fact that it's had those stages have had on you know,
the country music scene and just to be a part
of its history is just the coolest thing in the
world to me.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
You know that that people trust me to you.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
Know, kind of carry on a piece of history and
it's it's really cool.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
The other thing about the Ryman is you got a
whole bunch of your you know, fellow country artists sitting there.
You know, you think they're critiquing. They're really not. They're
just enjoying, you know, you do your thing. But you're thinking, oh,
they're right there, somebody's writing something down, they're texting on
their phone about oh we missed this or did that
or you know whatever.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
Nerve.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
You know, every time I get the chance to play
in Nashville, I'm like, I don't dread it because I
love playing in Nashville.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
But it's it's you know, there's a different level of.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
You know, nerves that come with it just because of
like the industries there.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
You know, people that you look up to or there
or whatever it is.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
And Nashville shows are scary, but they are fun and
I love every time I get to play in that.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
So, on the tours that you've been doing so far,
do you have any kind of ritual now that you've
played the rhyme and you can sort of have your
nerves under control ish, But is there like a certain
warm up that you go through food. You know, a
lot of artists do alcohol. Many don't. What gets you ready,
you know, because you know you still got to get
ready to get on the stage, and there's always nerves, right.
Speaker 2 (11:22):
Yeah, no, one hundred percent. So we do this. We
do this before every show, We do a shot in prayer.
So I'll get everybody in a.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
Circle and well, I'll usually give them a pep talk,
like like the quarterback would before going out on the field.
And I'll give everybody a pep talk, tell them how
much I appreciate them, you know, just remind them while
we're here why we do what we do and why we.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
Love what we're doing.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
And then we'll go around, and I'm very glorying to
make everybody say a goal that they have for the night,
whether it's something they learned from the night before or
something that they want to try new or whatever it is.
Go around a circle, everybody says a goal, and then
we'll our heads. I'll lead, I'll lead prayer every night,
and then we'll take a shot, and I'll choose somebody
(12:06):
new every night to say the toast for the shot,
and then we'll hit the stage and by that time.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
We're pretty fired up and ready to ready to go
play a show.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Nice. That's a great It's a great ritual though, because
you're channeling the energy and you're also taking a little
bit of the edge off with the shot. What's the
favorite shot for.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
You, Jack Daniels? Every night?
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Oh no, College took took me out on Jack Daniels.
I gotta say there was a few experiences that I'm
sure you know how they ended. Yeah, Jack Daniels. So
I even to this day, I still can't drink Jack Daniel. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (12:39):
No, that's pretty much the only time I touched Jack
is you know, the little shot that we take before
the show.
Speaker 2 (12:44):
I don't. I don't really indulge too much in the
in the hard stuff. I try not too, but there
are there are.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Times, right you gotta celebrate.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
So collaborations everybody sort of does him now And I
read somewhere Sabrina Carpenter is on your list? Is that true?
Speaker 2 (13:02):
Oh? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (13:02):
And what are kind of your both in genre and
out of genre collabs that you'd like to do?
Speaker 3 (13:08):
I mean, a song with Sabrina would be awesome, you know,
I'm I'm a huge fan of what she does and
the culture that she's building and you know her songs.
Her songs make you feel something, all of them, and
I think that's a huge part of what music is,
if it's making you feel something and it's doing its job,
and you know, I think if we got in a
room together and worked on something, I think we could
figure out something real cool.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
I think Kelsey Ballerini would be really cool. I'm open
to everything.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
I just love I love music, and I love good songs,
and obviously all it all.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
Starts with the song.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
You could you could pick out the coolest person in
the room, but if the song's not right, it's not
gonna be right. And I'm definitely very song oriented, but
I like, I like to have things happen organically and naturally.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
I could see Kelsey Ballerini. I remember when she was
where you are in your career now. She's one of
my favorites too. And Laney also.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
La great too. Yeah, just great people.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
So this might be the first time somebody is seeing you.
What can we expect at a Tucker Wetmore show?
Speaker 2 (14:05):
Just a party the whole time from top down.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
Everybody's having a good time, moving around, jumping, waving their hands,
whatever it is.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
I want it to be just a party from start
to finish.
Speaker 1 (14:16):
And I can say from personal experience, I saw Tucker
in April shows tight, solid, really good. You will have
a really really good time.
Speaker 2 (14:24):
That's good. I love that. That makes that did my job.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Thanks Tucker for talking with us. We appreciate you so much.
Good luck on the tour and on the shows and
on the album.
Speaker 2 (14:33):
And well, thank you brother, thanks for having me.
Speaker 1 (14:35):
Yeah, no problem, Thanks Tucker, appreciate you.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
Yeah, thank you, brother, and enjoy your weekend.
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