Tucker Wetmore

With his 2024 single "Wine into Whiskey," Tucker Wetmore unveiled his distinctly modern country persona, falling halfway between Jason Aldean's brooding ballads and Morgan Wallen's hedonism. A Country Airplay hit, it paved the way for his 2025 debut album, What Not To.

A native of Kalama, Washington, Wetmore played music in the moments he wasn't playing football as a teen. As a high school football star, he pursued music in his spare time, but when he attended Montana Technological University as a business and information technology major, he concentrated on football. Once an injury curtailed his athletic dreams, Wetmore decided to pursue music. Moving to Nashville in 2020, he released a series of indie singles in 2021, beginning with "Kiss My A$$," then running through "Another Shot" and "She's Trouble."

He signed with Back Blocks Music in 2023, releasing "Wine into Whiskey" early the following year. After making an online impression, the single entered Billboard's Country Airplay Charts. Another Country Airplay hit, "Wind Up Missin' You," followed soon after. Both songs were included on Wetmore's debut EP, Waves on a Sunset, which arrived in October 2024 and cracked the upper half of the Billboard 200. All of this built anticipation for his full-length debut, which arrived the following year. Released in April 2025, What Not To was a lengthy 19-track debut and included most of Wetmore's previous singles. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine