If Sh*t is Good, It’s Good with Koe Wetzel
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Why does Koe Wetzel dislike genre labels in music?
I hate when people put a genre on songs. If the shit's good, it's good. It's so easy to make music now. It's so easy to put your music out there. And the way the streaming world is and everything, man, it's really cool. It's just the way it's kind of evolving. We're seeing it firsthand, and it's really cool.
Hey everybody, it's Troy Volhoffer on the bus at Country Thunder. Today we're having a very unique artist, Coetzee, on. We're going to talk a lot about what's going on in your life and what's going on on the road. And let's talk about where you were last night.
We were in El Paso. We had a layover there. We were coming from Gonzales, Texas. And yeah, we stayed up a little too late last night. We had to get an IV whenever we pulled up. But I'm feeling a little bit better now. Got me a little cocktail now. So we're doing a lot better. Yeah, Green Band-Aid.
Get right back on that horse.
Absolutely.
So you're from Pittsburgh, Texas. Yeah. So what was it like growing up in Pittsburgh, Texas?
What led Koe Wetzel from football to music?
Oh, it was great, man. It's a really small town, about two and a half hours east of Dallas. So it's kind of behind the pound curtain. They don't even really consider us East Texans a part of Texas. They consider us pretty much Louisiana. But it was great, man. Small town vibe. Yeah, a lot of fun. so you played football yeah so how did football transcend into music so i've always i've always you know played music and sang and wrote and stuff and it was all it was always just kind of there you know i never really thought that i would pursue it the way i did um but yeah i played football i got a scholarship to uh to go play college football um i did it for like a year and a half broke my ankle i had to have surgery it came back
And we were gigging a lot more, and I'd been drinking a whole lot more and figuring out I could get more women by playing the guitar and get more free beer by playing guitar than ever having any chances of going to the NFL. So I was like, man, screw this. I'm out. And then, yeah, the grades went to shit after that in school, and they kicked me out of school. I said, well, I guess this is time to get after it. So we really started hitting it hard after that.
How did the Texas music scene shape Koe Wetzel's career?
Well, we're glad you did that and made that choice because, you know, sure, enjoying your music. And so a lot of our listeners, this podcast is throughout North America. And so there's some Canadian listeners. And as we know, the whole Texas scene is a whole scene to itself. I don't think a lot of people understand that there's like two different worlds. There's Nashville and then there's Texas. And so you started out in the Texas scene where there's a lot of artists who make a living never leaving Texas.
Yeah. Absolutely. Like you said, it's its own scene. I mean, hell, Texas is pretty much its own country. I mean, you can tour year-round and never hit the same city twice in Texas. And a lot of people do that and make damn good livings doing it, man. Yeah, coming up in the Texas scene was awesome. There was that little feud of mainstream. I think there's always been kind of a little feud there with Texas' country and mainstream country. But, you know, music's music, so it is what it is.
Yeah, it seems like that has kind of diminished a little bit.
Yeah. Now there's so many different genres. Music is so genre-less these days. So everything just kind of blended in with each other now.
So you signed your big deal with Columbia in 2020. What was it like to get your first record deal?
It was great. I never had any plans of signing a record label. We were independent for so long, eight or nine years, and that's how I wanted it to be. But I felt that there's only so much you can do as an independent artist. You do need those connections, especially if you want to grow the brand and spread your music. So it was during COVID and nobody really knew what the was going on.
Why did Koe Wetzel sign with Columbia Records?
Nobody really knew what was going to happen. And after Harold saw High, we had a couple record labels hit us up and we talked to a bunch of them and I was like, you know what, I think it's time we take that step. I'm glad we did, man. We got with Columbia and they've been nothing but great to us. Just kind of let me do what I wanted to do. And they backed me 110%.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
Why does Koe Wetzel dislike genre labels in music?
0:07–1:07
2
What led Koe Wetzel from football to music?
1:07–2:23
3
How did the Texas music scene shape Koe Wetzel's career?
2:23–4:09
4
Why did Koe Wetzel sign with Columbia Records?
4:09–6:24
5
What influences shape Koe Wetzel's unique music style?
6:24–7:46
6
How did the song 'Damn Near Normal' come to life?
7:46–13:13