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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello, welcome on in. Lorient and Charlie here, Cook and
Chase Nashville chats with one hot dude, new artist Tucker Wetmore. Boy,
he came out of nowhere and social media kind of guy,
got a lot of attention and boom, he's got a
number one it.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
You know, what's interesting and a lot of fun for
us over the years is being there when these new
artists come along, when they break out. Now now the Internet,
you know, breaking out from the Internet is a whole
new ballgame. It used to be you were discovered in
a bar around Nashville and suddenly you have a hit
record and all that. But the world has changed. But
I got to tell you the talent that's coming along
these days is just incredible. And this young man is
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a prime example.
Speaker 1 (00:43):
Oh amazing singer songwriter. We got to meet Tucker Wetmore
not long ago for the very first time, and it
was a really cool day. As you're about to hear,
we were sort of like talking and chatting before we
actually sat down behind the microphone because Charlie and I
had just been announced as c m.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
A Award winners, thank you very much.
Speaker 1 (01:07):
In the Broadcast category, and Tucker had just hit number
one with wind Up Missing You, So we were all
congratulating each other and celebrating a little bit. That's so awesome,
very exciting. So gosh, you know, what a way to
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meet with so much great stuff going on all the
way around.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
Absolutely, that's awesome.
Speaker 1 (01:37):
Okay, anyway about us? What about you? So you have
broken you know this, don't you. You've broken a lot
of rules in a very good way. This is the
two This is the ten year town.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Baby.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
I've heard where you come and you grind and grind
and grind. Do you have any clue as to how
you have broken through so quickly?
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (02:03):
It's a higher power than me. I mean, I owed
all to God, Truely's that's it, you know. And like
the songs and the writers that I've written with, you know,
have the pleasure to you know, make friends with the
people in the industry. It is just it's all just
it's crazy. It's honestly so crazy.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
But you ever, because you know you're around the big guns,
do you ever think what do they see in me?
What are they finding that they think is talent that
they think is meaningful for country music?
Speaker 3 (02:37):
Absolutely? I mean I asked myself that question, and like
a lot of other questions too, but like it's I
try not to sit there and ask myself a lot
because enjoy the moment, you know. And that's what I'm
working on right now, is really sitting in the moment
and being like, oh, no, this is really cool. This
is all I've ever wanted, This is it's happening and
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it's real, and you know, kind of patting myself on
my back and like, no, I deserve this, you know,
and don't question it because I've worked my tail off,
you know. I granted I haven't been here for ten years, but.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
Well that doesn't mean haven't paid your dues.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
You paid your due.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
I have.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
I've been here for a little over four now, and
I've grinded every second of it. And uh, you know,
even at four felt like fifteen, you know.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
On the EP I think you have a hand in
writing five of the eighty. Sir, you had a chance
to write with some of the best in the business here.
What did you learn from your songwriting experience?
Speaker 3 (03:31):
Everything? You know, just every room that I walk into
or every uh, like even like opening up for these people,
and like I just try to be a sponge you know,
and that's I speak. I speak up when I feel
like it's necessary to speak up. But like, I just
sit there and I just take information and just like
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learn and learn, because I'm not the one to sit
here and be like, oh, I know everything, I've been
here before, because I'm not.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Were you writing specifically for this album when you were
with these other people, Yeah, because you have to go
in there with some sort of strength yourself. You know,
you can be a sponge. I mean you got insert
you know.
Speaker 3 (04:09):
And a lot of them are like some of my
best friends in the entire world now. But and uh,
you know, at the beginning, I was just like, oh,
I'm just a sponge. I'm just here to learn. And
then you know, the confidence started growing and growing, and
then now I was just like, hey, I got this idea.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Man, what are you doing? Oh?
Speaker 3 (04:26):
Nothing, come over?
Speaker 2 (04:27):
You know.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
It's stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Well wind up Missing You as a genuinely cleverly crafted song,
thank you. So I'm curious about the writing process of that,
just how that session went.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
So I wrote it with Thomas Archer to my really
good buddies Thomas Archer and my producer Crystal Cork, and uh,
I had just written Wine into Whiskey, which is my
first release, on Monday, and then I wrote wind Up
Missing You on Thursday with two different groups of guys,
but they're all really good buddies of mine.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
Would you write on Sunday?
Speaker 3 (05:00):
I drank on Sunday because it was my birthday. I'm
not proud to say it, but I did. It was
my birthday. So I wrote wanted to Whiskey of the
day after my birthday. But then I had just written
that one and it was kind of like a darker,
kind of more like sentimental song. So I was like,
I just want to write some fun today.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Guys.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
It was Sonny out and I was like, let's just
write something that feels really good, and they're like all right.
So I think Thomas Archer had the the wind Up
Missing New title and I was like, that's cool, and
then I just started freestyling the chorus like you he's
on a sunset? And then uh, he was like what
does that mean? I go, I don't know, but write
it down school.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Did you come up with that waves on the Sunset?
You don't know where that came from because it's a
you know and crash into me?
Speaker 3 (05:48):
Oh my god crash on me. Yeah, I'm pretty sure
I freestiled the whole. Yeah, but I don't know where
it came from. I just I felt it, so I
said it, and they're like, that works.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
And this is something you saw in Washington by chance? Maybe? Okay,
let me see your hometown is Kalama, Washington, sir. All right.
I looked it up. It about two hours south of Seattle,
around three thousand folks and my own target so far.
All right, Okay, how did that town influence you? The
small town upbringing as to what you're doing now? It
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made me who I am, you know.
Speaker 3 (06:21):
And I'm such a huge fan of small town living,
the easy, simple life. Everybody knows everybody. There's one small
grocery store, pharmacy, and a chevron and maybe a Mexican restaurant,
but it's all on one street. So it's like it's
like the perfect little Hallmark town, if you will. But
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the people that were there some of the best people
I've ever met, you know. And I'm still very close
with all of my friends there. We had a super
tight group and we just around there. We just work
on love.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
That's it.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
Like we all just love each other and care for
each other and you know, act like idiots with each other,
and you know, it's the It was the perfect small town.
Speaker 1 (07:07):
Vibe for sure, coming from that. How much anxiety trying
to work this town, in this business here.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
In Nashville, so much, so much anxiety, so much stress,
so much? What am I doing here?
Speaker 1 (07:21):
Thus the beer on Sunday?
Speaker 3 (07:23):
Yeah, and then the beer. You know it's I just
jumped in the deep end. My Mama told me before
I moved. I was. I was like, I want to
do this. She goes go, I how do I do it?
She goes jumping the deep jumping the deep end and
trust women. And what was your deep end here Nashville itself? Yeah,
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you know, moving from a small town. Even my college
town was was pretty small as a n ai A school,
so it was a it was a smaller town and
everybody knew everybody.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
You know.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
It's just like.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
I didn't really have anything ever that was like Nashville,
you know. And I've been up to Seattle maybe a
couple of times growing up, or Portland or whatnot, but
like that's not who I am.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Well, let's talk about who you are. You are very unique.
You happen to be as far as I know, the
only country artist on the chart who has, among other things,
done some pole vaulting. Sober anyway, were you pretty good?
Speaker 3 (08:22):
I was a state record holder?
Speaker 1 (08:24):
Yeah, yeah, well yeah, well.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
He said, he said that was like a Barney five thing. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
Back in my from I think it's like fifteen to three.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
No, kid like that. It's good state.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
So the title that I hold is to be state
meet record.
Speaker 2 (08:45):
You could pull vault over the front walls of these
record labels here in town. I get your records.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
Certain probably not now I'll probably break my leg again.
Speaker 1 (08:54):
But so final questions, I think we have to wrap
up here. But talk about going deep in your and
the way you sing. You go deep into all kinds
of emotions. Is it all real to you or do
you have some acting involved, you know, vicariously through other people.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
No, it's all real. I mean, I'm just at the
end of the day, I'm me, and I can't really
apologize for that because you know, why, why why I
apologize or something you can't change? But no, you know,
I mean, obviously there's days where I feel like, and
this is just me being honest, there's days where I
feel like I have to act a little bit where
it's like, oh, I'm really tired, but I got to
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put on a smile, or like something just happened, like
going through a breakup right now. You know, it's like
a lot is going on and EP week was last week,
so it's like, man, I'm not really feeling too hot,
but I got to show up and I gotta show
That's That's probably the biggest advice that I've gotten. I
can't remember who said it. I'll think of the name.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
Probably did you just say you're going through a breakup? Now? Yeah, okay,
I want to ask any more.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
I don't know I want to ask any more.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
I just like, no, no, that's okay. You know, it's not
of our business. But it's just amazing that you're going
through that kind of the lowest of lows but still
the highest of highs, doing so great with your music,
so we'll focus on the good stuff.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
The best piece of advice that I've ever gotten was
I think it was John Party. Actually, he sat me down.
He goes, hey, I know, blah blah blah, and he goes,
My biggest piece of advice I could give you is
show up. You show up, you know, show up and
show out as best as you can. But every single day,
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just show up, do your job, and the rest will
fall into place.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
I was like, okay, we'll keep your personal secrets with us.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
I appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
Well, I'm glad we didn't bring the champagne so we
didn't have to share the secrets.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
You know, we'll let the gossip people do all of that,
you know, but there is something we are ready to
blab about. Tucker Wetmore's debut album, What Not To, is
coming out April twenty fifth. Add to that, he is
headlining at the famous Riemann Auditorium. This is his big
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headlining debut on May twenty first. So you know, he
is just unstoppable. He's got these back to back hits,
Wind Into Whiskey, wind Up, Missing You. So after releasing
his DEBUTEP Waves on a Sunset in October, his catalog
Charlie has amassed nearly one billion global streams billion nearly
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a billion.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
If I had a penny for every one of those streams,
I don't know how much that would be, but a
lot of money.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
He wouldn't be sitting here with me.
Speaker 2 (11:39):
Well, anyway, thank you for joining us for the launch
of the career of Tucker Wetmore. Here on Crooked and
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