Tucker Wetmore Tearing Down Walls

The ACM 'New Male Artist of the Year' is just getting started. Tucker Wetmore recently joined Katie Neal to talk about his string of nominations, his whirlwind success since dropping his debut album, and to offer an update on his sophomore project. So much has changed for Wetmore in the year since he released his album, 'What Not To.' “I can't really pinpoint just one thing,” he tells Katie. “I'm kind of just stuck in the tornado right now, so it's kind of hard to see outside of it, but it's just everything is changing. Everything is growing, and it's just on a very good path right now, and I can't be happier.” He’s made sense of it all with a few important people to lean on, including Jesus, his mom, and Thomas Rhett. “I haven't talked to him in a while, but, you know, when I was on that Thomas Rett tour, I talked to him a lot about, what would you do in this situation, or how'd you go through this or whatnot, and he was so kind to just put me under his wing throughout that whole tour and I feel like I could call him up at any time and just be like, ‘hey man, I'm going through this, what would you do?’” Even in the eye of the storm, Tucker has set his sights on what’s next, with his sophomore album already recorded. “We spent 6 days out in Switzerland, and I put vocals on 11 songs in 5 days, which is oh my gosh, a lot,” he admits. “This is gonna sound super cliche because I feel like everybody says this, but I truly mean it when I say it's just, it is different. I feel like in the first record I was, ‘OK, what is this? What is that? What is Country?’ But now I'm implementing all of my influences. I brought all the walls down on this record.” “When it came to my creative side of my brain, and I'm like, ‘OK, what do I enjoy listening to? How can I implement what makes me love music into my music?’” he adds. “I love all music, and I don't think it should be put in a box ever.” “I am a little nervous for the world to hear it, because it is different and it's something I haven't really heard before. So in a way we're kind of just trying to create this new thing, and either that will work or it will not, but I got a good feeling it will.” For more from Tucker Wetmore, check out the 'Superstar Power Hour' from 'Katie & Company' all week on your favorite Audacy Country station.