A bearded hick from Texas. Star of a sloppy country, this Koe Wetzel, we understand, excessively cultivates an image that resembles him. If we are to believe the video of Damn Near Normalone of the titles of his sixth album, he would live all alone in a shack in the depths of nowhere, ruminating over his cow destiny, between Depression & Obsession (cover of XXXTentacion, murdered rapper). According to him, he would be the Last Outlaw Alive. A survivor with nine lives who tells in Leigh that it is “ out of choices “. A regular loser, you know, except he fills stadiums all over the South, in front of crowds of like-minded people who find in him a reason to keep going. Imagine ZZ Top in a Nashville studio, a putative son of Waylon Jennings who has floundered in a mosh pit grunge years and dabbled in hip-hop. The fact is that he stands out advantageously from the square faces of modern country, closer in this to a Chris Stapleton, less Stetson and cowboy boots than Bermuda shorts and sneakers. America in decline, but which assumes itself and fights.
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9 Lives
★★★ 1/2
Koe Wetzel, Columbia / Sony Music
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