![]() ![]() So it was actually a song that I wrote back in like 2013 or '14. And every time we go back, we feel at home in Lubbock. But we have a lot of good memories in Lubbock, especially on the come-up. We kind of cut our teeth in Lubbock, and you know, that's where Texas Tech is, and it's out in the middle of nowhere. "There's a bar we always play in Lubbock, it's called the Blue Light. I'm just like mumbling the words to 'Lubbock' on it and there's a guy in the background, he's like, 'Oh, my god, it sounds terrible.' And I'm just like, 'Fuck this thing,' and I throw it down. So it's me just fucking around and it sounds pathetic, it really does. It's just me trying, attempting to play fiddle, because I don't play fiddle for shit. "'Lubbock' and 'The Fiddler' were originally one big track. Let's let it ride with the rest of the song and kind of throw people off.'" But at the same time, whenever that drop hits, let's not take out the steel guitar. Let's throw some steel guitar on it and kind of give it a country vibe. ![]() We got done with it and we were like, 'Man, that sounds pretty cool.' I was like, 'Let's kind of mix it up a little bit. ![]() Whenever we went back to actually start cutting songs for the record and start making new songs, we went back on that song and I was like, 'Man, this song has a really good feel to it.' So we threw in the whistle and we threw the big drop in it with the big heavy guitars, and I finished writing to it. We did a demo to that song and it was just the chords and just the first line, 'You called me from the bathroom.' And it was a bunch of mumble-jumble throughout the whole song and I kind of freestyled, but none of it really made sense. "My producer, Taylor Kimball, he actually had that line 'crying from the bathroom' when we were recording our last record, Harold Saul High. All these songs were pretty much put together within a two-month period, if that." And so I just took that and we came up with that song from the ground up. "I just put myself in somebody else's shoes going through a breakup, you know what I mean? Just kind of mixed with personal feelings that I've had going through breakups and then how somebody would feel if they were just dropped out of the sky from a long-term relationship. We put it out just because we hadn't put out music in a long time and we wanted to put out something people could relate to at that moment in time." And then we got really tanked in the studio and finished off the rest of it. It was kind of a joke at first, but it just stuck. We had a riff that we came up with and then I was like, 'I lost my fucking mind,' whatever. If we're going to quarantine somewhere, we might as well quarantine in the studio and make some music.' So we went in and we just started from the ground up. Me and my buddy have a studio in Denton, and I called him up and I was like, 'Screw it. Social media was going crazy and everybody was losing their mind. "It was right when COVID hit and everybody got quarantined. If anything, I think this is some of the better music that we've put out, especially with the sound that we came up with on this record." And so that was the whole reason behind naming the album Sellout, because our music hasn't changed at all. "Especially in our scene, the Texas music scene that we kind of came up in, when somebody signs a record deal, they feel as if they've lost, because they either turn into pop country music or something that wasn't what the fans were used to. Wetzel flexes his muscles as a lyricist too, as on standout track "Good Die Young" when he sings, "My mama called to say she’s praying for me and Jesus called but I wasn’t there." Below, Wetzel shares the inspiration behind the songs. Wetzel addresses the elephant in the room in the album's opening skit, then goes on, along with his band and producer Taylor Kimball, to create daring soundscapes for Sellout's songs, which explore substance abuse, romantic entanglement, and life on the road with candor and confidence. We lost him.' And I feel like sometimes they kind of want to keep you to themselves.” A cult favorite among fans of independent country music, he conquered the touring circuit of his native Texas before spreading his singular blend of '90s rock and rowdy country far beyond the borders of the Lone Star State. “And whenever we announced we were signing with Columbia Records, we had a lot of people that were coming on and commenting and going, you know, 'He's a sellout. “For the last nine years, we've just kind of been doing our own thing and building up this fanbase,” he tells Apple Music. Koe Wetzel knows what his fans might be thinking. ![]()
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