Tucker Wetmore Talks Debut Album and First Stagecoach Performance: “It’s Game Day Week”
The country star dives into his favorite songs on 'What Not To,' festival must-haves and what's to come, including his newly announced summer tour with NÜTRL Vodka Seltzer.
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Tucker Wetmore is less than 48 hours away from what’s arguably the biggest day of his career.
On Friday, April 25, the 25-year-old singer-songwriter is set to release his debut album What Not To, and just a few hours later, he’ll take the Stagecoach stage for the very first time. “I’ve been waiting and looking forward to dropping my first album for as long as I can remember…it’s crunch time now,” the country star tells The Hollywood Reporter.
Stagecoach is just the kickoff, though. Wetmore then hits the road alongside NÜTRL, which was just announced as the official vodka seltzer of Tucker’s Summer Tour. The spirit brand sits high on the artist’s list of backstage and festival essentials (the orange flavor is his favorite), along with trail mix (“obviously you’ve gotta have the M&M’s in there”), his Wrangler jeans (“I don’t wear anything other than Wrangler”), a pair of boots, a loose button-down and a hat. “I’m a simple dude, I don’t really need much,” he adds. And for Stagecoach, “a bandana‘s probably going to be necessary because of all the dust.”
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As with “Austin” singer Dasha, who’s also making her Stagecoach debut this weekend, Wetmore’s music initially blew up on social media, first with “Wine Into Whiskey” and then with “Wind Up Missin’ You,” which doubled as his country radio debut single. “I feel like everything happened so fast last year that nobody really got the chance to know me or why I am the way I am,” he explains. “This is my chance to kind of scratch the surface on a lot of those things and tell my truths.”
Friday’s release contains 19 tracks: “You know, I had a lot to say, so I couldn’t do it in anything less than [that].” When asked about his most-loved song of the 19, the singer had a hard time picking just one: “All of them…they’re all my babies.” However, there are a few that he’s especially excited for fans to hear.
“‘Bad Luck Looks Good on Me’ is probably one of my favorites. That song actually took like eight months to write…. It was just one of those songs that, it wasn’t right, it wasn’t right, and we kept going back and forth and then finally got to a spot where I was like, ‘This is it, let’s roll with it.'” Other standouts for Wetmore include the album’s title track “What Not To” and “Whiskey Again,” both of which dive deeper “inside of who I am and where I come from,” he tells THR.
While the artist’s rise to fame and accompanying schedule has certainly been an adjustment — one where he isn’t able to see family and friends as much as he’d like to — Wetmore can’t help but feel “blessed.” “I wake up with air in my lungs, a roof over my head, a comfy bed and I get to go off and do something that I love every day, and you can’t really put a price on that.”
The singer’s debut album What Not To is available to preorder now on Amazon. To see him live in the desert on April 25, check out THR‘s guide to finding the best deals on Stagecoach passes and to join Wetmore this summer, grab tickets for the upcoming tour here (he’ll be opening for Thomas Rhett at select shows).
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