Koe Wetzel
Schedule
Wed Jul 31 2024 at 08:00 pm
UTC-05:00Location
2815 W Locust St, Davenport, IA | Davenport, IA
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Koe Wetzel, Wednesday, July 31st BIOSurrounded by flames, amps cranked all the way up, and no f*cks given, Koe Wetzel leaves a trail of sold out venues, screaming fans, and empty booze bottles in his wake wherever he goes. Proudly hailing from Northeast Texas, he has quietly asserted himself as the ultimate country rockstar, bulldozing the boundaries between Nashville songcraft, rowdy Texas spirit, and rainswept Seattle hard rock. After moving 1 million units under the radar and popping off as one of the hottest live performers in the game,
he welcomes everyone to the party on his 2022 full-length offering, Hell Paso [Columbia Records].
“I did what I wanted to do,” he exclaims. “This was straight up me. Nobody told me to do this record. We
pulled in every genre we were feeling at the time. We spent the last ten years trying to make this sound
—Hell Paso is it.”
Never compromising, Koe might just be the last real rebel out there. The Gold-selling singer, songwriter,
guitarist, and producer shakes up the status quo, shatters expectations, and sticks to his guns with a
sound steeped in country story telling, yet spiked with grunge grit. He’s unapologetic, undeniable, and
unlike anyone else you’ve ever heard. Without anything to prove and nothing to lose, he continues to
kick ass on his own terms. Breaking through with a series of independent releases and tallying over 1.3
billion streams to date, he has impressively notched three RIAA Gold-certified singles, including
“February 28, 2016,” “Something To Talk About,” and “Drunk Driving.” The latter adorned his 2020
Columbia Records debut, Sellout, which arrived to widespread critical acclaim from American
Songwriter, Billboard, The Boot, Rolling Stone, and more. At the same time, he has quietly emerged as a
powerhouse performer. He graced Pollstar’s “Top Worldwide Tours” back-to-back in 2020 and 2021,
moving hundreds of thousands of tickets in the process. In addition to headlining his own Koe Wetzel’s
Incredible Music Festival, he has packed arenas, amphitheaters, and ballparks across North America,
attracting a devout audience.
At the top of 2022, Koe and longtime collaborator Taylor Kimball retreated to Sonic Ranch recording
studio—a stone’s throw from the Mexican border just outside of El Paso, TX. Holed up on a pecan farm
for a month, they had nothing to do “except eat wonderful Mexican food and fucking play music.”
“It was straight-up bliss, man,” he says. “I couldn’t go to the bar because there isn’t one. I just had to
make music!”
Fittingly, he set the stage for Hell Paso with “April Showers.” Powered by a galloping riff awash in
distortion, it culminates on one of his most chantable choruses. “It gives you a taste of the entire
record,” he adds. “It was a good song for everyone to jump into.”
On its heels, the single “Creeps” crawls on grimy guitar towards a sing-song refrain tailormade for
stadium-size crowds—or karaoke at your favorite old watering hole.
“It was a feel-good song for me,” he says. “I’m big into the Zombie apocalypse like The Walking Dead, so I
wanted an apocalyptic zombie video for this b*tch.”
Punctuated by nocturnal Spanish guitar and Spaghetti Western-style whistling, “Cabo” recounts a
weekend of endless debauchery in Mexico with no shortage of gory details. “It’s a million percent true,”
he grins. “I’ve pissed off a lot of girlfriends and wives, but other than that it’s wonderful.”
Hank Ealy from Turnpike Troubadours lays down tear-drenched pedal steel on “So Low” where Koe
confesses, “I’m so low it’s f*cking awesome. Makes me glad there ain’t a cure for insane.”
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Where is it happening?
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