Koe Wetzel
Appearances
On the Bus with Troy Vollhoffer
If Sh*t is Good, It’s Good with Koe Wetzel
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.
On the Bus with Troy Vollhoffer
If Sh*t is Good, It’s Good with Koe Wetzel
I said, well, I guess this is time to get after it. So we really started hitting it hard after that.
On the Bus with Troy Vollhoffer
If Sh*t is Good, It’s Good with Koe Wetzel
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.
On the Bus with Troy Vollhoffer
If Sh*t is Good, It’s Good with Koe Wetzel
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.
On the Bus with Troy Vollhoffer
If Sh*t is Good, It’s Good with Koe Wetzel
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.
On the Bus with Troy Vollhoffer
If Sh*t is Good, It’s Good with Koe Wetzel
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.
On the Bus with Troy Vollhoffer
If Sh*t is Good, It’s Good with Koe Wetzel
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%.
On the Bus with Troy Vollhoffer
If Sh*t is Good, It’s Good with Koe Wetzel
Yeah. So, I mean, I grew up in like older country. My mom, if I was in the car with my mom, it'd be worship music or, you know, 90s country, old country. And if I was with my dad, it was either old rock or, you know, Eminem and 50 Cent and rap and hip hop. So I think.
On the Bus with Troy Vollhoffer
If Sh*t is Good, It’s Good with Koe Wetzel
All that combined with me figuring out grunge music and pop punk, like whenever I was around sixth, seventh grade, all that kind of combined just kind of really, you know, helped make what we're putting out.
On the Bus with Troy Vollhoffer
If Sh*t is Good, It’s Good with Koe Wetzel
Yeah, it was a song that me and Gabe Simon, Amy Allen, we got together in Tornillo at Sonic Ranch Studios. We had like a three or four day just kind of write and record session. It was one of those songs that
On the Bus with Troy Vollhoffer
If Sh*t is Good, It’s Good with Koe Wetzel
We kind of got to talk about how our lives as musicians and people that are in the music world, you know, our lives are a lot different than, you know, say, whenever we go back home and we see all of our friends that have kids and wives and nine to five jobs. It's just it's crazy how different our lives are. So we got we got on that topic and we wrote that song pretty quick and
On the Bus with Troy Vollhoffer
If Sh*t is Good, It’s Good with Koe Wetzel
It meant a lot to me, especially it being the first song back in two years since we put out music. I kind of wanted just to show everybody kind of the way that we're making our music and pushing our music to what's out in that kind of sound.
On the Bus with Troy Vollhoffer
If Sh*t is Good, It’s Good with Koe Wetzel
I actually wrote the song, and then me and Parker were hanging out or whatever, and that was right after he put out Limestone Kid, and he was kind of on his rise in the Texas scene, and my buddy Jake Murphy was his tour manager at the time, and He was like, man, I think Parker wants to help get on Love. And I was like, that'd be perfect. So he called me.
On the Bus with Troy Vollhoffer
If Sh*t is Good, It’s Good with Koe Wetzel
He was like, hey, you know, I'm writing this last verse. I think we're just going to kill her in the end. Is that okay? And I was like, sure, let's kill her. So we kill her off in the song. And no, it was great, man. And the success that he's had, man, it's just insane. It's so much fun to watch, you know. Um, but yeah, man, it was, it was a good time. Yeah. He's a great guy.
On the Bus with Troy Vollhoffer
If Sh*t is Good, It’s Good with Koe Wetzel
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.
On the Bus with Troy Vollhoffer
If Sh*t is Good, It’s Good with Koe Wetzel
I've had him on the show before.
On the Bus with Troy Vollhoffer
If Sh*t is Good, It’s Good with Koe Wetzel
We're doing a lot less shows than we're used to. Used to, we're around 150, 125 to 150 shows a year. And hell, two or three years ago or before COVID, it was closer to 200 shows a year.
On the Bus with Troy Vollhoffer
If Sh*t is Good, It’s Good with Koe Wetzel
I live just west of Fort Worth in Weatherford.
On the Bus with Troy Vollhoffer
If Sh*t is Good, It’s Good with Koe Wetzel
Yeah, I'm still in Texas. It's going to be hard for me to leave. I don't think, I mean, hopefully if I keep playing a couple more Country Thunder festivals, maybe I'll buy me a house up in the mountains or something. But for now, it's Texas for me. That's cool. Do you make it over to Nashville often? I do. We get there, I mean, I'm probably there 10 or 15 times a year.
On the Bus with Troy Vollhoffer
If Sh*t is Good, It’s Good with Koe Wetzel
If it's us just laying over, you know, traveling or now that we're kind of making this transition of genre of music or whatever it is, you know, the style of music, it's easier to be around those type of people in Nashville that kind of get it and the sound that I'm going for. So I've been spending a whole lot more time in Nashville than past years.
On the Bus with Troy Vollhoffer
If Sh*t is Good, It’s Good with Koe Wetzel
Yeah, absolutely. I hate when people put a genre on songs. If the shit's good, it's good. And I'm glad that everybody's starting to do that. And 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.
On the Bus with Troy Vollhoffer
If Sh*t is Good, It’s Good with Koe Wetzel
Man, to me, I don't really have a huge input on that, man. I think get it however you can get it, man, absolutely. But whenever it gets there, you better be ready to show out, man. We started out on the road. That's all we knew how to do is get up there and play. And we were lucky enough that people started giving a shit about our music and stuff.
On the Bus with Troy Vollhoffer
If Sh*t is Good, It’s Good with Koe Wetzel
Um, but I mean, a lot of these TikTok, uh, artists are phenomenal musicians, you know, they're great. And like, like I said, however you get, get discovered is, you know, it's, uh, it's how it is. And, and in this world today, that's, that's how I think how it's going to keep, keep on growing and being, you know?
On the Bus with Troy Vollhoffer
If Sh*t is Good, It’s Good with Koe Wetzel
And, uh, and the hell back, like back in the day, it was like you, you needed a radio promoter, you know, and now you don't even know, you don't even need a radio promoter. It's, it's, it's crazy. You know, people are blowing up, you know, they'll have a song that'll just blow up on TikTok is kind of like the new age radio, honestly, you know, so.
On the Bus with Troy Vollhoffer
If Sh*t is Good, It’s Good with Koe Wetzel
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.
On the Bus with Troy Vollhoffer
If Sh*t is Good, It’s Good with Koe Wetzel
yeah absolutely that's exciting uh what's what's up tonight so what are we looking forward to tonight um a lot of music man um i'm not gonna talk a whole lot like i said i'm pretty hung over today so i'm probably gonna get back on that train and and i'm not gonna talk a whole lot i'm just gonna we're gonna get up there we're going song after song after song i ain't got i got a whole lot to say tonight man we're really excited to be here and uh we're gonna we're gonna make it really loud it's gonna be really really loud tonight man
On the Bus with Troy Vollhoffer
If Sh*t is Good, It’s Good with Koe Wetzel
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.
On the Bus with Troy Vollhoffer
If Sh*t is Good, It’s Good with Koe Wetzel
Absolutely, man. Thank you so much, man. Thank you, Coe.
On the Bus with Troy Vollhoffer
If Sh*t is Good, It’s Good with Koe Wetzel
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