Most of y’all forgot — if you even knew — that Texas invented “outlaw country” or “redneck rock,” an outstanding, dope-and-booze-fueled style that took a sharp dogleg from the polished stuff Nashville was cranking out.

Ah, well, that was half a century ago. And yet … there’s a dude out of Pittsburg, Texas, called Koe Wetzel. This guy, apocryphally named after music outlaw David Allen Coe, is doing a damned fine job of resurrecting the genre here in the 2020s, and he’s on the road behind his new “9 Lives” album.

One cut that’s emblematic of Wetzel’s approach is the title song, a cocky and defiant battle cry from the perspective that Our Hero has already used up the first 8 of his lives in a succession of wild and party-happy episodes. But he remains convinced of his own immortality. Consider this finely honed couplet:

“I've got a twelve pack, two dime bags / Flatlined twice just to come right back.”

On the other hand, another good song from the album offers a very different and cautionary take on the hard-charging lifestyle. It’s called “Damn Near Normal” and, interestingly (or not), its chorus melody is very reminiscent to the verse melody of Jason Isbell’s “Only Children,” which is about as cautionary a song as you can get.

See Wetzel Thursday at the Mohegan Sun Arena. Bring your defibrillator paddles in case he needs them.

Koe Wetzel, 7 p.m. Thursday, Mohegan Sun Arena; with Treaty Oak Revival and Dylan Wheeler; $55 and up; mohegansun.com.