You probably know Tucker Wetmore as the country newcomer about to clinch his first #1 hit. But did you know he had a well-decorated athletic career before music?
“I grew up playing sports my entire life. Football, baseball, track,” Tucker tells ABC Audio. “[A] little bit of basketball [as well], but I stopped playing that pretty early on. It wasn’t my forte. I kept getting mono, so I was like, I’m done with basketball.”
“I went to college to play football [and] ended up getting injured,” he shares. “So that was kind of the end of my sports career.”
Having it come to a screeching halt was quite a blow to Tucker. He was down and out, uncertain of what to do next.
“I moved back home and I was super lost. I was like, ‘Ma, I don’t know what I’m doing. I don’t know what I want to do with my life,'” he recalls.
That’s when his mom came through with words that changed the course of Tucker’s life.
“She was like, ‘Just go sit in front of your piano or pick up your guitar. That was your therapy back in the day.’ So I wrote my first song that night and I never looked back,” he says. “I wrote my first song in 2019, I moved to Nashville in 2020.”
Tucker’s currently #2 and ascending to the summit of the country charts with his debut single, “Wind Up Missin’ You.”
Tucker will open for Thomas Rhett on his Better In Boots tour this summer, with the kickoff show slated for June 5 in Rogers, Arkansas. Tickets are available now at tuckerwetmore.com.
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