Gavin Adcock: Country’s Viral Underdog

Summary

Dumb Blonde Podcast
Episode: Gavin Adcock: Country’s Viral Underdog
Host: Bunnie XO
Date: October 6, 2025

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Episode Overview

This lively, candid episode features viral country music star Gavin Adcock, known for his rowdiness, honesty, and rapid rise from Georgia cattle farms and college football to viral country stardom. Host Bunnie XO dives deep into Gavin’s background, musical journey, internet controversies (including recent drama with Zach Bryan), relationships, family dynamics, and the realities of life on the road. Listeners are treated to raw truths, wild stories, and meaningful reflections—plus plenty of laughs and memorable quotes.

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Main Discussion Points & Insights

1. Gavin Adcock’s Upbringing and Early Influences

• Childhood Stories & Family:
  • Grew up on a cattle farm in Watkinsville, Georgia. His father was a "cattle trader" and a self-proclaimed "cattle addict," while his mother was a tough nurse.
  • Their tumultuous relationship gave Gavin his “spiciness” and outspoken nature.
  • Gavin: "They just raised a lot of hell when I was a little kid... it kept my life pretty spicy when I was younger." (03:39)
• Cattle Hustle Life:
  • Nighttime emergency cow roundups and “addicted-to-the-hustle” culture shaped Gavin’s approach to work and fame.
• Adrenaline Rushes:
  • Early exposure to adrenaline (near-death misses with bulls/cattle) fueled his later desire for danger and excitement: “The adrenaline was awesome about almost getting killed by a cow. I don’t know what it was, but I enjoyed it.” (10:47)
• Music vs. Personality:
  • Recognizes a near 50/50 split between being known for his music and his unruly public persona. “I enjoy being outspoken and just saying what’s on my mind… It just comes out.” (02:46)

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2. The College Football Days and Viral Rise

• Football Beginnings and Fallout:
  • Played for Georgia Southern before a knee injury derailed his football career; environment was “toxic,” and fame turned cold when things went bad. “When things are going bad, everybody’s pulling the finger and hate each other.” (17:06)
• Bus Incident and Social Media Fame:
  • Gained notoriety after chugging a beer while “surfing” a school bus past fraternities—a moment that went viral via Barstool (18:00).
  • Consequence: Suspension, then removal from the team for mixing music aspirations with sports during the season. “I had that chip on my shoulder and I just started letting out songs one after another and had that mind all the time. I was like, I’m not gonna let these people be the end of me.” (19:37)

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3. Music Career: From the Porch to Packed Shows

• Beginnings in Songwriting:
  • Started seriously playing guitar at 22 after a knee surgery left him couchbound. Wrote 6-7 songs in the first weeks, channeling restlessness into creativity (21:39).
  • First Break: Negotiated his way into bar gigs in Statesboro, quickly going from $300/pay-to-play at tiny venues to selling 5,000 tickets at the city’s biggest venue. “Year and a half later, ... we sold out 800 tickets. And we’re going back in two weeks for the biggest Blue Room show they’ve ever had. 5,000 tickets.” (24:15)
• Distinct Sound & Influences:
  • Cites love for old-school red dirt and cowboy music (Waylon Jennings, George Strait, Alan Jackson, Co Wetzel), with a preference for “unpolished” and raw songs.
  • “I was one of the first people in the Southeast to come out of the Southeast making a Red Dirt sound… some dirty rock and roll Southern rock music, you know?” (26:23)
• Songwriting Process:
  • Inconsistent, dependent on mood and the moment—sometimes starts with melody, sometimes lyrics.
  • Writes from both experience and empathy, “putting himself in someone’s mindset,” even if it affects his mood for days.
  • “Some of the saddest songs I’ve ever wrote... puts you in a real dark place.” (29:18)

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4. Relationship with Haley and Its Impact

• Meeting & Dynamics:
  • Met girlfriend Haley at a bar, started dating after taking her to sing the national anthem at a rodeo.
  • Public breakup due to “rock star mode”; no physical cheating, but “entertaining stuff” online that she didn’t appreciate (33:34).
  • Got back together, and Gavin reflects on the positive effect she has: “I’m still rowdy, and I still like to have a good time. I just want her to be there, you know.” (35:05)
• Balancing Career and Stability:
  • Admits that “behind every great man is a good woman,” and doesn’t want the party lifestyle forever.

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5. Life on the Road

• Touring Origins:
  • Early tours in a rundown 24-ft camper (“our green room”), hosting chaotic post-show parties (50:30). Recently sold the camper for $14,000, full of memories.
• Tour Demands:
  • Rider requests used to include condoms, now just “nicotine pouches, lighters, and a candle.” (54:35)
• Fan Behavior:
  • “Ohio is just insane.” (55:36) — the wildest crowds. Fort Smith, Arkansas, the toughest to win over (56:09).

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6. Controversies: Zach Bryan Drama & Social Media

• Zach Bryan Feud:
  • Clarifies he never challenged Bryan physically: “I didn’t really appreciate how he reacted to a 14-year-old girl’s ‘why didn’t you sign my stuff’... so I did [speak out].” (57:10)
  • Bryan crashed Gavin's festival set, yelled expletives during another act’s set. Gavin stayed calm, focused on his show.
  • “Whatever you say about me cannot hurt me.” (59:45)
  • Emphasizes trolling only helps his career: “I probably went up 6 or 700,000 monthly listeners on Spotify just from them being whiny.” (59:54)
  • On taking the high road: “I’m proud of my decision to not fall into his trap and ruin the show.” (65:20)
• Beyoncé Country Music Take:
  • Stands by his opinion that Beyoncé is not country: “She’s very talented. I don’t think she appreciated the country genre or what it’s about... I didn’t say anything off the wall.” (75:07)
  • Unfazed by backlash: “Her fans started coming into my page and commenting, bees… but they weren’t hurting anything… just making the post do better.” (75:23)
• Reckless Driving Arrest:
  • Arrested in Tennessee for reckless driving and open container (67:45).
  • Used the negative press to hustle: “I probably sold about $150,000 worth of mug shot tees... So it just worked out.” (70:33)

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7. Creative Independence and Industry Reflections

• DIY Mentality:
  • Long prided himself on being independent—wrote nearly all his own songs, made money “sleeping at his parents” until he knew what he wanted from a label.
  • Now signed with Warner Nashville, “on my terms.” “The biggest outlaw thing you can do is make your own decisions… if you want to call me an outlaw for that, then you can.” (45:18)
• Discography Evolution:
  • Noting improved craft and production across three albums; wrote 99% of his songs, and is picking more “live, wholesome” material now. (39:04, 49:05)
  • "I will never not have something else to let out. So I would drop a single and I’d write three to five..." (42:10)

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8. Reflections and Future Goals

• Growth and Growth Mindset:
  • More family-oriented, evolving from party songs to “a lot more wholesome stuff.”
• Personal Message to Fans:
  • “I don’t really do this for me anymore now that I’ve got some money. Just want them to get music and enjoy their life, you know, and if I can add some kind of value to that… I’m glad I could help if that’s what is helping you, you know?” (81:18)
• Five-Year Goal:
  • “Hope to be headlining stadiums... I’m gonna work my ass off, and we’re gonna be headlining stadiums one day.” (79:41)
• On Awards:
  • Not in it for trophies—"I’m just gonna keep letting out the music that we let out, and if it’s eligible...then that'll be that." (80:54)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• "I just really look back on it recently and go, damn, had it made before I had it made." — Gavin, on missing anonymity (07:06)
• “The biggest outlaw thing you can do is make your own decisions." (45:18)
• "I love shaking hands and kissing babies too...That’s what honestly makes it really worth it for me." (08:28)
• On songwriting: “If I come across somebody’s hurt or pain, I really try to put myself in that mindset, which can lead for like a really tough day.” (29:18)
• "Behind every great man is a good woman...You guys need somebody to kind of like hold the balloon string." — Bunnie (35:59)
• “Whatever you say about me cannot hurt me.” (59:45)
• “Anytime something happens negative, turn it into a positive in this business... I probably sold about $150,000 worth of mug shot tees.” (69:14, 70:33)

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Key Timestamps

• Upbringing & Family Dynamics: 03:39–06:43
• Football to Music Transition: 16:38–21:24
• First Shows & “Ain’t No Cure” Success: 24:15–26:23
• Songwriting Process: 28:32–31:08
• Relationship with Haley: 31:26–36:18
• Touring Stories (Camper, Crowd Reactions): 50:30–56:09
• Controversy & Zach Bryan Feud: 57:10–66:24
• Reckless Driving Arrest Story: 66:24–70:33
• Creative Independence / “Outlaw” Discussion: 44:56–47:01
• Beyoncé Country Album Discussion: 74:34–76:04
• Stagecoach & Winning Over Crowds: 76:08–79:24
• Vision for the Future & Fan Message: 79:41–81:18

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Episode Tone

Candid, brash yet warm—Gavin’s authenticity and sense of humor shine through, complemented by Bunnie XO’s relatable, cheeky, and supportive style. This episode blends wild stories with real vulnerability: it’s for anyone fascinated by the realities and myths of viral country stardom.

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Where to Find Gavin

• All Platforms: Gavin Adcock Music
• Mug Shot T-Shirts: gavinadcockmusic.com

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End of Summary

Transcript

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[Gavin Adcock]

What's going on? Yo dude.

[Bunny]

Thank you for being here early. I appreciate that.

[Gavin Adcock]

That's just when I showed up, got done writing and we got in the car.

[Bunny]

So yeah, no, it was fun. I was like what a gentleman. Because normally I'm always here before waiting on, you know, podcast, the podcast to start. And then you were here before me. They text me, he's like, they're like he's here. And I'm like oh. So I jumped in the car and ran over here. But thank you for being here. I got to do a lot of research on you last night because I am one of those people who was never really familiar with the music. I was familiar with the personality. Do you get a lot of that? Like, do people know you more for your, like, your personality than your music?

[Gavin Adcock]

Or do you probably like 50, 50, 60, 40 music personality?

[Bunny]

Yeah.

[Gavin Adcock]

Yeah. I mean, I enjoy being outspoken and just saying what's on my mind. And sometimes I don't mean to. It just comes out, and I. I don't. They don't bother me.

[Bunny]

Anyway, I think one of the. The craziest things was that I found out that you're a Libra. You have a birthday coming up, right, in October. And I was like, for a Libra, you are definitely outspoken. Like, super outspoken. So I just. I was like, where does that spice come from? So I started doing a little bit more digging on you, and I found a song that you have that's called the Battle. The Battle? Yes. It's a song that you wrote about your parents. Essentially. They, you know, had a pretty, like, razor blade romance. And in the song, you know, you're talking about that. And I was like, I wonder if this is where his spiciness comes from. So can we kind of like, dive into that a little bit?

[Gavin Adcock]

Yeah. From when I was a little kid, my mom and dad had their second child. I was 2, and some change. And they just sent me off to work at the barn with my dad. I grew up on a cattle farm, and my dad's a cattle trader. He's basically a stock trader with. With cattle and buys them one day, sells them the next. And he's just kind of a. He's just kind of a fly off the handle, gets pissed off, raises hell. And then you can go eat some lunch with him five minutes later. And my mom is a. Is a nurse. That doesn't take a lot of shit. And they just raised a lot of hell when I was a little kid. So it kept me all. It kept my life pretty spicy when I was younger. Yeah, they. They'd raise hell. Mom would leave, come back next few weeks, they'd be good argue. Then I got old enough where I could argue with them. We'd raise some hell and then. Yeah, but it definitely made me have some kind of fire.

[Bunny]

Yeah, absolutely. I love that you light up when you talk about them. That's really sweet. And the lyrics. It says, when I come home late and she's been drinking, she just wants to fight. So we do. So was mom a drinker they all.

[Gavin Adcock]

Drank a little bit.

[Bunny]

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[Gavin Adcock]

They've been through times where they just come home from work, have a drink, have a couple too many, just argue and. But you know, I wouldn't have took them any other way.

[Bunny]

That's like my kind of party.

[Gavin Adcock]

Me and. Me and my girlfriend, we talk about how she was a little sheltered by her parents from the world when she was younger, and I. They didn't give me a damn umbrella when I was younger. So we just kind of meet in the middle, you know. So I've. I've saw a lot more crazy stuff when I was growing up than she did.

[Bunny]

Yeah, I want to talk about Haley later too, because I've noticed that you don't really ever talk about her publicly. So I want to like, dry. I want to like, dive into that also. So you said you grew up on a cattle farm in Watson, Watkinsville, Georgia. What was that like? Like, what's a story from that farm that people wouldn't believe unless they saw it?

[Gavin Adcock]

Just me and my dad, like getting woke up by a phone call in the middle of the night and he coming upstairs and getting me and there's cows out all, all down the road, down the highway, and me and him are just getting them up 4 o' clock in the morning or chasing some cattle back in our underwear if we get called like in the middle of the night. And it's just. And there's been a lot of cattle go through that piece of land. I've seen them shipped out all around the country. And we've. My dad come home, you'd see. You see a load of cows come into the barn and he clean off the back tags of them and clean them up, and we'd load them up the next morning and take them to sale. And he tried to just swap them for a profit. And he's really a gambler. He's an addict. Like, he's a. He's a cattle addict, like I've called him.

[Bunny]

And like, he's addicted to the hustle.

[Gavin Adcock]

Yeah, he's just addicted to the hustle. And I got a. I got a bunch of that from him.

[Bunny]

I appreciate that. You know, from one hustler to another, did. Did that small town life kind of shape, like how you look at fame now, because coming from a small town, you've got to like, have the people that you looked up to and you're like, I want to be like that one day. And, you know, so take me on that journey as growing up in a small town to being kind of as famous as you are now.

[Gavin Adcock]

You know, it's. It's been really weird not being able to go places that I've always been able to go to. And I. I've never really appreciated being a fly on the wall until I wasn't. And I can't even go to like my favorite bar in Athens, which is Watkinsville's, right outside of Athens, Georgia, where University of Georgia is. I can't even go in there anymore without just. It just being a problem for everybody there. And I really just loved being this nobody redneck kid that drove a flatbed truck, worked on the cattle farm that might have been. Had some friends, played some sports, might have been misunderstood every once in a while. But I just really look back on it recently and go, damn, had it made before I had it made. You know, that's hard for somebody that screw up. Like small town living.

[Bunny]

Well, you know, it's only going to get worse, right? The more notorious that you get. Yeah, it's going to be to where you're not like even able. Like my husband can't even go to the grocery store and he thrive. I call my husband a politician because he loves to kiss babies and shake hands. Yeah, I'm the complete opposite. I am. Like, I don't like, I love everybody, but it's like I just want to be in my own space so I understand where you're coming from whenever you say that. Like, it's very hard to deal with. And of course, the more you get bigger, the worse it's going to get. So how do you think you're going to be able to handle that?

[Gavin Adcock]

I love shaking hands and kissing babies too. I love it. And that's what honestly makes it really worth it for me is just to be able to see my impact on other people's lives and how they kind of lose their mind when they see me. I'm like, they love me that much. Where they're kind of. They're acting like I'm not a. Like I'm not real. Like I'm this figure in their mind. It's just. But they. I'm gonna keep chasing it and keep growing. I've just.

[Bunny]

You're not doing it for the fame. You're doing it for you. Yeah, pretty much what you're saying.

[Gavin Adcock]

Yeah, the fame's fine. It's like one of my least favorite things about it. But just to go play shows for thousands of people. We've been playing five, 6,000 cap rooms, which is really big for me from When I started out and as it. As it is for everybody. But it's just a good feeling to change people's lives and make a difference. And that's just mostly why I do it.

[Bunny]

You've come a long way in a short time. Like to be playing five, 6,000 cap rooms. Like, that's crazy because my husband has been in the business for, you know, 20 years, and when I first got with him 10 years ago, he did wasn't playing rooms that big. And it took him from then until now to get to where he is. So you should be really proud of yourself with how far you've come.

[Gavin Adcock]

Thank you.

[Bunny]

Got it. It's got to be, like, overwhelming because I know how we feel, so I could only imagine how you feel. I read somewhere that you wanted to ride bulls in the PBR before football and music. Is this true?

[Gavin Adcock]

Yeah. When I was a little kid, I watch rodeo with my daddy on the couch and I told him I want to ride bulls. And he's grown up around a bunch of rodeo people and I have a bunch of rodeo friends. And my dad just really pushed me away from that. And in high school, me and my buddies went to test pen and we rode a couple bulls just to say we did. But my dad did a really good job of telling me. He was like, this is not a career you want to get into. You're going to end up in a wheelchair with no money and medical bills. And I appreciate him for pushing me away from that, but I do love going to watch the rodeo and think those people are badass.

[Bunny]

Yeah. Is it like the adrenaline? Is it the toughness? What was it that pulled you in? That's scary.

[Gavin Adcock]

Yeah, it was just the. It was the adrenaline. I've grown up on a lot, a lot of adrenaline and just daddy would hand me a gate and he'd drive 30, 40 cows up the alley of our barn. And whatever ones he wanted to take to the sale that day, he'd say, go by and he'd say, catch the other ones. And they were flying by and I'd be jumping up on fences, running away from bulls and stuff. And it would be like near death, A near death experience at 6, 7, 8 years old. And I thought it was the greatest thing on earth. The adrenaline was awesome about almost getting killed by a cow. I don't know what. I don't know what it was, but. But I enjoyed it. And yeah, that. I've always been an adrenaline chaser.

[Bunny]

I could appreciate that. I tried to make. I have. So I have Two highland cows that I absolutely love. And one's name is Crunchy. He's pretty famous. Like everybody loves him and he is a wild. And yesterday I tried to dress him up as a ghost because I saw this really cute video of this cow running with cheat. And I thought that my bull would do it too. And he literally tried to attack me yesterday and tried to attack my girlfriend. And it was the funniest. We laughed our asses off, but it was scary. I couldn't imagine that happening at 7 or 8 years old.

[Gavin Adcock]

That's the only thing I knew. It was just like, here boy, let's go do this grown man.

[Bunny]

Sink or swim.

[Gavin Adcock]

Heck yeah. And I'd go feed cows with him. He, he loved when I went because it saved him some time. I'd get out and open the gates and I just. That's what I'm working for, really. Just to have a big enough ranch where when I'm 40, 50 some years old, I can just feed the cows, smoke a little pot and see the fam, I guess, you know, I love that.

[Bunny]

Did you ever get a dick? Not addicted. Did you ever get attached to any of the cows? Like, did they become like your pet? Because cows are cool.

[Gavin Adcock]

Yeah, we had this one. Cow is a Brahma, which is the breed of cow. It's got like big hump on its neck and floppy ears. I was a little toddler, probably one to two years old. And we'd go out there and feed the cows and daddy would put me on her back and she'd walk around and I'd hold on to her hump. He wouldn't have to hold me because she was just, just a pet. And she lived all the way till I was probably like 13, 14 years old. She was probably like, I don't know, 16, 17 year old cow. And she died. And that was really emotional for everybody in my family. It was just like. It's like a dog, you know?

[Bunny]

Oh my goodness. I couldn't even imagine. I don't even want to think about when Crunchy passes.

[Gavin Adcock]

Yeah.

[Bunny]

So at 16 you got a guitar but you didn't take it seriously until later. Is that true?

[Gavin Adcock]

I didn't start playing it until I was 22.

[Bunny]

Why not? You just weren't interested.

[Gavin Adcock]

At that time I was playing a bunch of sports. I was playing football, wrestling, baseball. And then just working in the summertime with my dad and then. And I just never got around to it. And I was always fascinated with music. Song would come on the radio and I was a little kid I would just, I'd learn the song and then I'd want to sing exactly like they did. So I feel like that helped me learn how to sing a lot just trying to match the notes they were hitting.

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[Gavin Adcock]

And then 22 years old came I tore my knee up playing football. Kind of come to the realization that that was probably going to be the end of football and I was not enjoying ball as much anymore because you get out of high school and you realize how much business college football is and how when things are going good, everybody's your buddy. And when things are going bad, everybody's pulling the finger and hate each other.

[Bunny]

Yeah.

[Gavin Adcock]

So that really. And I still love football. I watch football, I gamble, bet on games every weekend, but I always look and go, God, I'm glad I'm not doing that anymore.

[Bunny]

Yeah. I've heard you talk about how toxic that environment was for you, and I think that that's actually really cool. Are speaking up about that because not a lot of people who were in your position would. And you know, like, kids want to play ball so bad that they're willing to, like, kind of deal with the abuse. And so you speaking up, I think is really cool because, you know other people will be able to follow in your footsteps. I think it's crazy that you got kicked off the team. So for people who don't know the story, I know you've told it numerous times, but what exactly happened? You, you were playing for Georgia Southern. You tore your. Did you tear your knee first or did you tear your knee after the bus incident?

[Gavin Adcock]

Tore it before. I text a buddy on Sunday and said, hey, you want to come down to Georgia Southern and play some music with me? I'd play. I'd played guitar with. He had played guitar and I'd sang a little bit in college because I couldn't play guitar at the time. He said, yeah, I'll come down Wednesday. Well, Tuesday I tore my knee up and I played with him when he got there in a big cast, started riding, did rehab, got all the way back to the season and was barely healthy enough to, like, even jog around. But I was like, screw it, I'm a competitor. I want to play. So I went to go back in fourth game of the year. We take these school buses around the campus and go past the bars and all the tailgates and we go to the fraternities and sororities, they stop the buses and they shower the buses through the windows with beer and champagne and everybody just ends up going into the locker room sticky and just that. I don't know, it's just the. What they've done there for years and years. And the exit of the school bus was broken open. These buses are old and ragged out. So I was surfing the bus, going past attorneys and sororities and I looked down and a guy that I knew had a beer, he threw it to me and I chugged it down. We played the game, lost by touchdown. And the next day Barstool posted it. It blew up.

[Bunny]

Barstool, they're always up. I love them though.

[Gavin Adcock]

Yeah, they, they helped me out and, and up that day. So it's a double edged sword, but.

[Bunny]

Right.

[Gavin Adcock]

And then I got, I got suspended for a week from that. And then they brought me in there about two weeks later after I, Barstool had shouted my music out as long as well as the chugging the beer. So that helped me get a little spark. They brought me in there. Everybody was toxic. We were one in four and just brought me in there and was like, look, we want you to be on the team, but you can't be on the team if you're going to keep posting about your music. You gotta go if you're gonna, if you're gonna post throughout the season. And I was like, well, that's, I'm just gonna take off my music. So we parted ways. I had that chip on my shoulder and I just started letting out songs one after another and had that mind all the time. I was like, I'm not gonna let these people be the end of me.

[Bunny]

I love that that you had that, you know, foresight to do that. But you would think that you were bringing such great attention to, you know, the game and just the league. Why would they kick you off? Like that's crazy.

[Gavin Adcock]

Well, they loved the attention before the season started.

[Bunny]

Gotcha.

[Gavin Adcock]

And then we won the first game, barely. I wasn't playing and then lost the next two games and I came back that game, chugged the beer on the bus. That was just big. We lost. If we'd won the game, it wouldn't have been a big deal, but we lost. So everybody was just pointing the finger and I was person getting pointed the finger at because I chugged the beer on the bus and I was like, whatever.

[Bunny]

Yeah.

[Gavin Adcock]

And when they figured out that we weren't going to do very good that season, they were like, we got to keep everything Quiet. We don't want a bunch of media going around. Everybody ended up losing their job at the end of the season because we played so dang bad. But I think they won one more game after I left, so I was glad I got out of there.

[Bunny]

Yeah, absolutely. So let's rewind. Because you had said that the barstool clip pointed towards your music. So when did you actually start doing music? Was this while you're. You were down with your knee hurting or. Take me on that journey.

[Gavin Adcock]

Tore my knee up that Tuesday. Dude, come over Wednesday. We played a little guitar. I had my surgery the next week and went home. My mom picked me up from Statesboro. I drove road three back, three hours back home to Watkinsville. Her and I sat on the porch and didn't really know how to play guitar very much. So I started writing off melodies. I'd come up with melodies and find a time. And I wrote, I don't know, six or seven songs in the first six or eight weeks of me being on the couch. And I'm not an inside person, so it was a good way to cope. And I started talking to people about booking shows. I hit up my. The best place to play in Statesboro, it's called the Blue Room, Said, hey, I'd love to come play one night during syllabus week. If y' all pay me a little bit, I'll come over there and play on a night. And they were like, well, we can give you free drinks and stuff. I was like, no, I kind of got something going. I'm the only athlete around here playing any music. Nil just started. I'd love to make a little money. So I went to their competitor across the street, Southern Social, and they were like, yeah, we'll pay you $300. I was like, hell, yeah. First show ever. We're gonna make 300 bucks.

[Bunny]

Which is actually really good.

[Gavin Adcock]

It was good. It was good for that time. And I introduced the acoustic guitar player to the electric guitar player to the drummer. That night on the stage before we started, I was like, yeah, this is so and so. They all met. We played 24 songs. It went great. Everybody came to Southern Social that night. And it. Blue Room didn't have a very good night. And the owner come up to me. He was like, man, it was great. Here's 500 bucks. Slap 500 bucks in my hand. I was like, hell, yeah. I was like, anything that was gonna happen, Blue Room hit me up the next day. It's the. It was like, we're sorry. We. We we didn't listen to you when you ask us to let you play the first time. We'd love to get you on the books for something later, and that was the place I wanted to play. It's just a better venue. So I played outside there one time, made 500 bucks. Year and a half later, we came back statesboro. I sold 300 tickets inside. The next time we came back, we sold out 800 tickets. And we're going back in two weeks for the biggest Blue Room show they've ever had. 5,000 tickets.

[Bunny]

Yay.

[Gavin Adcock]

So that's. That's been real fun to look forward to.

[Bunny]

How does that make you feel?

[Gavin Adcock]

It's great. I feel like I accomplished what I wanted to accomplish there, so.

[Bunny]

Yeah. That's amazing. I'm really proud of you. When you were sitting on that porch writing all of those songs, what was the song that you wrote that you were like, you know what? This is gonna work for me.

[Gavin Adcock]

I wrote two songs the first couple weeks, and one of them was called Ain't no Cure, which I had wrote the first verse and chorus three years previous. Riding down the road, took, like a voice recording of it, put it away, never brought it out again until I tore my knee up. And then I had my surgery, started writing it one morning, took me 20 minutes. Finished the thing that was in early July, or actually it was in early June, and we got in the studio in July, cut it, let it out in August, and it just went platinum. This is my first song I ever let out, which was. Just blew my mind that. I mean, I was showing people the song when they'd come over, and they'd be like, that's really good. And I was like, yeah, whatever. I don't know. I really don't know. I like it, but. And then I wrote this song called Thriving Here that I still play the shows. And it's just a song about when you're down and out and you really, really are looking for your, like, your silver lining in life that's going to get you back on your feet, that's going to make you feel whole again. And that song's been a real staple of my career. I'm. I've got, like, a clothing company I'm coming out with called Thriving Here Co. So that's just going to be my Pearl Snap company. So that's one of my favorite songs I've ever wrote.

[Bunny]

Your. Your sound reminds me a lot of like. Like real cowboy music, like George Strait, like, stuff like kind of like, dare I say, Texas country Because I feel like we got away from that sound for the longest time and I feel like you're kind of leading the charge of bringing that back. Do you feel the same?

[Gavin Adcock]

I've really enjoyed old cowboy music my whole life, from Waylon Jennings, George Strait to more modern like Red Dirt type stuff. And I love Red Dirt. I just, I just like how unpolished it is. And I was one of the first people in the Southeast to. To come out of the Southeast making a Red Dirt sound. Like you didn't have to wait for a Texas band to come for to hear some dirty rock and roll Southern rock music, you know?

[Bunny]

Who are some of your inspirations growing up? Besides Waylon Jennings?

[Gavin Adcock]

Yeah, I get the whale in comparison a lot because I've got like his complexion and this you have.

[Bunny]

You do have a little bit of the resemblance.

[Gavin Adcock]

I wear the vest and stuff, but I, I don't ever sit down and write a song and go, I want to be just like Waylon Jennings.

[Bunny]

Right.

[Gavin Adcock]

I'm just a. I'm a big fan of him growing up. I love listening to Alan Jackson. Some of Alan Jackson's more serious. I mean he's got great boat party songs but his like more serious.

[Bunny]

Yeah.

[Gavin Adcock]

Stuff that he's wrote like Remember when or song or just. I'm. I'm a huge sad Alan Jackson fan and listen to some Tim McGraw growing up and when Luke Brown was popping off, I was listening to him when he was just taking over the world. And then I started listening to like Co Wetzel and Parker McCollum artist out.

[Bunny]

Texas and we had Parker on the podcast. He's hilarious.

[Gavin Adcock]

Hell yeah. He's been posting some funny stuff lately. I've been seeing him.

[Bunny]

He.

[Gavin Adcock]

I guess he's has a few drinks after a show or he's stoned or something and he. Yeah, he gets on there and posts some funny ass.

[Bunny]

No, he's funny. I did not expect that. When I sat down with him, I thought he was going to be like really square and he's like does DMT and like smokes weed and drinks. Like he's a funny. I think you guys. Have you guys met?

[Gavin Adcock]

Yeah.

[Bunny]

Okay.

[Gavin Adcock]

I opened up for him.

[Bunny]

That's right.

[Gavin Adcock]

One time. I don't know, three years ago.

[Bunny]

No, that's awesome. When you write music, do the lyrics come to you first or do you have to have a melody before you can apply the lyrics?

[Gavin Adcock]

My ADD is so bad. It's never the same. Sometimes I'll grab the guitar, come up with something that I think sounds catchy. Have no words. I'll start humming a melody, or if I'm driving down the road, I'll just start trying to whistle or hum or catch a melody that I got or somebody will say something clever. I'm never the same when I'm writing a song. It's just. It's always different.

[Bunny]

Yeah, it's just like a. A process of whatever you're going through at that moment in time. Because you write some really deep music for. And I mean, you're what, 26? You write pretty, like, angsty, like, brokenhearted, soulful love songs. Where does that come from? Experience or just other people's experiences?

[Gavin Adcock]

I try to ride off of both. I really haven't lived every single thing in the world that I've seen. So if I. If I come across somebody's hurt or pain, I really try to put myself in that mindset, which can lead for, like, a really tough day. I remember some of the saddest songs I've ever wrote. I got up at 8am, started drinking some coffee, got into something that I was feeling or somebody else was feeling. And it puts you in a real dark place. About 12 or 1pm Your day.

[Bunny]

You're, like, hitting the bottle by then.

[Gavin Adcock]

You're like, let's have a drink. Yeah, that was emotional. Like, we were. I wrote a murder ballad in college, and by the time I got done and I headed back to my girlfriend's house at the time, she was like, talking like crazy. I was like. I was like, babe, I just wrote a song about killing people. I was like. I was like, can I just go to sleep and I'll talk to you in the morning? But I don't. I don't. I'm not. I'm in, like, a really pissed off mood.

[Bunny]

Oh, so it's kind of like method acting.

[Gavin Adcock]

Yeah.

[Bunny]

Like, you, like, take on the emotions and you just pour it out in music.

[Gavin Adcock]

I think that's where the best songs come from. When you really, really get into that character that you're writing.

[Bunny]

Yeah.

[Gavin Adcock]

And it can really carry into the net into the rest of the day.

[Bunny]

You know, you're like, don't let me end up on True Crime, Sister.

[Gavin Adcock]

I. Yes. Yeah. I tend to be very picky the rest of the day after I write a song. Like, I'll come home after I've wrote two songs with either me and. Or myself or me and a group of people, and I'll be nitpicking everything, and I've got to get myself out of that mindset of you're not writing a song anymore. You're just living life. Dude, stop being such a damn picky son of a bitch.

[Bunny]

Is it hard to play yourself out of that?

[Gavin Adcock]

Sometimes. Sometimes I just get just locked on to little shit that's pissing me off.

[Bunny]

No. Do you consider yourself a moody person?

[Gavin Adcock]

Depends on the day, I guess.

[Bunny]

Yeah, it depends on what you're writing about. Yeah, poor Haley. She only wants you to write love songs from here on out.

[Gavin Adcock]

She's a moody person too. Don't you let her own her. Don't you let her psyche out.

[Bunny]

Let's talk about Haley for a little bit. So how did you guys meet? You guys have been together for about two years now. How did you guys meet and take me on that journey with you guys? She's super cute. I checked out her tick tock last night.

[Gavin Adcock]

Yeah, she's great. She really has helped me out for the better, for sure. I've. I've been in a relationship probably like six months, eight months by the time I met Haley. So I was just kind of doing my own thing. I was living with my folks in Athens, making music, writing every day. And then on the weekends, I'd go out with my friends and was sitting in the bar as soon as it opened up with some of the bouncers that were my buddies at that bar that said, I can't go to anymore. And she walks in and she's wearing this, like, really, really pretty flower dress. She's like, really done up. And she goes up to the bar and asks the bartender goes, hey, have you seen any keys? And I was like, this is a red flag walking on him, but I like it. And I was about to say like, hey or flirt or something. And bouncer next to me goes, only thing we find in here is panties. And I was like, she's not gonna talk to me now. So she walked on out. I was, I'll never see her again. Then the next night, I was at the same bar hanging out, and there she was. She was in a T shirt and a trucker hat. And I walked up to her and I said, you got a boyfriend? And she said, nope. I said, you want one? And she. She said, I don't know. And next week, I was singing the national anthem at a rodeo in Athens, and I took her to it and sang. We went out to the bar and started hanging out after that and started officially dating probably a couple months later.

[Bunny]

You guys also went through, I think it was like a little bit of a public breakup for a minute there. What happened with that entire situation because there's a lot of rumors and speculation, so I want to hear it from the horse's mouth.

[Gavin Adcock]

Yeah, I was just kind of in this rock star mode, you know, just not really ready to just absolutely settle down quite yet. I wanted just to live and be rowdy, and she's. She's less like that. And we were really getting on each other's nerves. I was having a lot of stuff going on, and I wasn't physically cheating on her, but there was. People just hit me up left and right, and I was just kind of entertaining stuff on the cell phone, just that she wasn't appreciating. And so we took a break for. We broke up for two months. We didn't talk for two months, really. And then we just. I hit her up one day and we started talking again, and I was like, yeah, I enjoy doing what I do, but I don't want to live this party life forever. It's probably going to kill me.

[Bunny]

No, I love that. I actually was. I follow you. So I saw the. The breakup and stuff like that, and you could see a switch after she wasn't in your life. Like, you were party partying a lot, to the point where I was like, this poor guy, like, he's hurting in a different way, and he's just taking it out, you know, on the stage. When you would get on the stage and get, like, face plastered. And then since she's been back around, you can see kind of like a switch in you too, where you're, you know, you're still you, but at the same time, you're like. You can tell. You're trying to take better care of yourself.

[Gavin Adcock]

Yeah, no doubt. I mean, how we were running for a couple months and not getting any sleep and waking up having a show the next day, and your throat's just absolutely gravel and just. You're absolutely killing yourself. And I just. I don't know. She's been real sweet to me and real good to me, and I decided that I was gonna. I'm still rowdy, and I still like to have a good time. I still like the party. I just want her to be there, you know? And. Yeah, and it's. It's nice when we have a weekend off and we don't go out. Like, people. People think that I. I drank 24 7, but I'll have a drink. One drink before I go on stage on a Thursday night, have a few beers on stage, put on the rowdy show, do the same thing for the next couple Nights. And then Sunday and Monday and Tuesday come around and I'm like, get that out of my face. I don't want to drink. I'll smoke a little pot and watch a little tv.

[Bunny]

And yeah, behind every, every great man is a good woman. And I feel like a good woman is a backbone, especially for artists. You guys need somebody to kind of like hold the balloon string, because if you don't have somebody holding that balloon string, you're gonna just fly around everywhere. My husband was the same way when we first got together.

[Gavin Adcock]

Yeah, I definitely don't want to be a single 40 year old playing rock and roll concerts, looking down at 18 year old chicks.

[Bunny]

Oh, no, it's just not.

[Gavin Adcock]

It's not. It's not really something that you look at and you go, that's it. That's what you want to be doing. You know, and for all the people that do that, that's.

[Bunny]

I was gonna say there are some people who actually really look forward to that. I have a couple friends who are in their 40s dating 20 year olds, 19 to 20 year olds, and I'm like, what is happening? What in the midlife crisis is going on? But to each their own, I guess, right?

[Gavin Adcock]

Yeah. Me and Haley got a three year age gap and I'm like, God, you need to mature a little bit sometimes. And she, I mean, she thinks same thing about me, but I can't imagine being 40 and being with a 20 year old and being like, yeah, relating to them at all. Yeah, not many things.

[Bunny]

What the do you guys even talk about? Yeah, I couldn't even imagine. So you've dropped three albums. Bonfire, Blackout, Acting Up Again, and now own Worst Enemy. How do you hear your sound evolving across these records?

[Gavin Adcock]

I think the songs overall are getting better written and produce wise. Bonfire Blackout has some really good songs on there that I still play to this day. Probably like out of the 14 song album, I still, I think I still play five or six of those songs at concerts and each album's getting where I play more of those songs at the concerts. I didn't know what I was doing during Bonfire Blackout. Anything that we recorded in that studio was like lightning in a bottle. It was, it was like. It was like, how did we get this to sound this good? Or like that could have sounded better. And now there's just a little bit of a method to the madness. You know, my ears have got better to listening to specific things and the writing's definitely matured. I wrote Bonfire Blackout 99 by myself. I probably wrote and I'm. I'm on all but probably two or three of my cuts ever. I think I got probably like 65 songs out, if I had to guess. And I've. I've only cut two outside songs, and I only take outside songs. If I'm listening to this song, I'm like, damn, this is good. If I don't cut it, somebody else is going to. So some people were like, yeah, Gavin doesn't write his own songs. I'm like, well, you know, I write 99 of them. If that ain't good for you, then that's. That's. Whatever.

[Bunny]

I don't understand why people get so hung up on stuff like that.

[Gavin Adcock]

You're.

[Bunny]

You're making music, you're co. Even if you weren't writing the song, you could be co writing it. Like, there's so many factors that go into writing music. I hate when non musicians or people who aren't in the industry judge people who are in the industry. It's like if we went and told welders how to weld a straight line, you know, it's like, leave us the alone. That's. It's ridiculous. Own Worst Enemy has 24 tracks, which is crazy because most albums are like 10 to 12. Like, what was that like, writing 24 songs? And in your mind, were you like, you know, just keep adding songs or how. What was the process in adding so many songs? I used to dread wearing bras and underwear. The straps would slip, the wires would dig, and by the end of the day, I couldn't wait to peel them off. And don't even get me started on underwear that rolls or pinches. It was always a struggle to find something that actually felt good. That's why I love skims. The Fits Everybody T shirt bra is supportive without being suffocating. Smooth, soft, and so comfortable I forget I'm even wearing it. And the Fits Everybody thong. It's stretchy, stays put, and feels like second skin. I reach for skims because they solved the problems I thought were just normal with intimates. And honestly, I'd recommend them to any friend who's tired of choosing between comfort and looking cute. Because with skims, you finally get both. Shop my favorite bras and [e-mail] after you place your order. Be sure to let them know I sent you. Select podcast in the survey and be sure to select Dumb Blonde podcast in the dropdown menu that follows. When I started Dumb Blonde, I didn't have a plan, just an idea, passion, and plenty of doubts. But that's part of the process and Shopify made it possible to turn that idea into real business. Whether it's merch, a brand, or even a podcast, Shopify gives you the tools to make it happen. If I can do it, so can you. Shopify is the commerce platform behind millions of businesses around the world and 10% of all e commerce in the U.S. if bunnyxo.com feels easy to shop, that's all Shopify. I'm just here picking up the cute stuff to put on it. What if I can't design a website? Shopify's got you from the get go with beautiful ready to go templates to match your brand style. What if I need a hand? Get help with everyday tasks like enhancing product images, writing product descriptions, or generating discount codes with Shopify's AI tools created for commerce. What if people haven't heard about my brand? Shopify helps you find your customers with easy to run email and social media campaigns. And what if I get stuck? Shopify is always around to share advice with their award winning 24. 7 customer support. Turn those dreams into and give them the best shot at success with Shopify. Sign up for your $1 per month trial and start selling today at shopify.com bunny go to shopify.com b n n I e shopify.com Funny, when I let.

[Gavin Adcock]

Out that first song Ain't no Cure, I didn't have a song to go after that. And if I talk to a young artist nowadays and they hadn't started, they go, you got any advice? I said I would write as many songs you can before you start because once you let that first one out, you're on the clock for the next one if it splashes. So I after, after that I told myself I will never not have something else to let out. So I would drop a single and I'd write three to five and I'd drop a single and I'd write three to five and sometimes I'd write eight to 12 in that four to six week period that I didn't let something out. And then when we went to pick on Worst Enemy, I think we chose from like I don't know, 80 something songs we had sitting around. So we I was like, okay, here's a good title track, own Worst Enemy. Let's pick all the songs that represent self destruction out of this pile. And since then I've still been writing. I had people hit me up and go, are you still creatively motivated after letting this album out? I was like, I wrote an album since then that Pissed me off. Somebody asked me that. And I literally, I just walked down the room. I was like, I ain't talking to you.

[Bunny]

Ah.

[Gavin Adcock]

Because I'm always writing.

[Bunny]

I guess it's hard for you to sit still, like, yeah. Is that, like, your creative outlet is to write? Because I know some people will sit down and write poems or sit down and write stories. And for you, your outlet is music.

[Gavin Adcock]

I like just getting up in the morning. My girlfriend sleeps in.

[Bunny]

Most women do.

[Gavin Adcock]

Yeah, she sleeps in. And I really appreciate that because I get my creative time in the mornings from, I don't know, 8 to 8 to 11 or 8 to 10:30. And sitting on the back porch watching the deer walk through the yard, picking on the guitar, smoking a little weed. That's the happiest I am. Just when it's quiet. I live a pretty loud life recently. But, yeah, I love getting away through writing. If I'm. If I'm in an emotional state, I'm like, okay, I better go grab that guitar and at least come up with a melody and some. Some chords.

[Bunny]

I love that you could have much more deconstructive ways of, you know, getting your emotions out. But writing music, I think is super constructive. So kudos to you for not choosing bad habits. So I hear you call yourself an outlaw a lot. What is your definition of an outlaw? Because I know a lot of people have different definitions for that.

[Gavin Adcock]

The only time I've ever called myself an outlaws in my song a Cigarette, I said, trying to love an outlaw man. And then I guess over the time of me just putting on rowdy shows where people sing along, fight, throw beers. That term is really. Got thrown at me a lot.

[Bunny]

Right.

[Gavin Adcock]

I don't really, really soak in that, like, outlaw term a lot. I'm just like, you know, we just do crazy shit. We just have a good time and we don't. The biggest outlaw thing you can do is make your own decisions. And I've spent a whole, whole career out of going, I'm going to do it my way. I'm not signing a piece of paper where other people can tell me what to do. I write my own songs, I let out of my own cadence, and if you want to call me an outlaw for that, then you can call me an outlaw for that, you know? But I don't go around going, yeah, we're outlaw country music.

[Bunny]

Right.

[Gavin Adcock]

I don't know if. I don't know if I've ever publicly said that.

[Bunny]

Yeah, I think I. I don't know if I was watching something Where I think you had said it, but I'll have to, I'll have to say, ye. So you said that you wouldn't sign a piece of paper. You're not signed to somebody.

[Gavin Adcock]

Right now I am, but I kept. I'm signed to Warner Nashville. But my biggest thing was I'm gonna on my tracks when I leave Gotcha your master. And I get to choose when we let out music and what we let out.

[Bunny]

So you're doing it on your terms. Yeah, which I think a lot of people don't understand that, especially in the, in the independent realm. Everybody always says, oh, you signed your soul away, you know, whenever you sign record deals. And I feel like record deals aren't like they used to be back in the day. Back in the day, if you signed a record deal, they owned you and pretty much you had no sort of like creative control. And I feel like if you go into a record deal now, you can kind of use leverage and tell them what you want. Do you feel like that's how it worked out for you?

[Gavin Adcock]

Well, I think I put myself in a better situation than a lot of artists do when they come to town. Nothing against those artists, but I kind of had the mindset of, I'm gonna make it on my own and if I never leave Georgia, I can quit or make my own music from Georgia, and I can live a nice life and I can buy a nice piece of land and I can just chill. And it got to a point where I was, I, I tell people this. I said, I made my first million dollars before I left living with my parents. And I, I think that's awesome people. Why were you living with your parents if you're making that money? I was like, because I love them and they're cool ass roommates. Like, they were hell when I was younger. But as they've got older, they're. They're badass roommates. And I don't know, I just, I really, really felt passionate about making it on my own before I went to Nashville and started writing with people. And that was a chip on my shoulder that I felt good about. And then I got to a point in my career of I want to play the biggest shows in the world. I want to make this as big as I possibly can. I want to reach the most amount of people. And I'm really proud of all the people I've joined up with in Nashville and all the people I write with. They understand me. Warner really understands my plan and my process. And they, they've done a really good job of going, all right, kid, we trust you. Go do your damn thing instead of trying to hit the brakes. Or don't do this, don't do this. And. And we're gonna keep, keep doing it how we've been doing it.

[Bunny]

I love that for you. You were just talking about your family, about how they're like cool ass roommates. There's a song that you have that's called need to, where your mom's voice shows up as kind of like a narrator. How much of family in real life bleeds into your writing?

[Gavin Adcock]

A good bit. A lot more recently than it did at the start. I really, I've let out a little bit of everything from like more punk rock sounding country music to traditional to, to just like straight up bluesy and then like radio songs. And I just like to touch a little bit of all of it within the genre. And at first I've. I had the mindset of let's write it party songs and I, I still love writing party songs. I've still got a ton of them that I'm sitting around and I'm going to get ready to let out. But I've been writing a lot more wholesome stuff lately as well. Just a lot more live stuff. And my family has been a lot more influenced lately on a bunch of those, which I'm really excited about starting to let out a bunch of those through this next year.

[Bunny]

I also think it's because you're growing as a man too. You know, you're in love, you're in a relationship, so you're not that wild. Party college, you know, football player boy. And you're like, you're a man and you're doing grown man. So I think as the years go on, that's your music is just going to keep evolving to the phases of your life. So let's talk about life on the road. Going from tiny shows to festivals. What's the craziest fan interaction that you've had so far?

[Gavin Adcock]

I used to pull this camper around to my first shows and the first show I ever played was in Birmingham, Alabama at the Zydeco Pub. It was like 400 people. I bought this camper for $16,000 and we used it as the green room because most of these places didn't have a green room. And after that first show we were like, let's party in this camper. So I mean we, we had probably 35, 40 people inside of a. Inside of, I don't know, 24 foot camper. That thing was Rocking, squealing at the. At all. All edges.

[Bunny]

How big was this camper? Just a little mini camper.

[Gavin Adcock]

Yeah, it was just a 24 foot. Had one bedroom and two little bunks and a bathroom and a little slide.

[Bunny]

And I love that you make the best out of every situation.

[Gavin Adcock]

Hell, yeah. I actually sold that camper last week.

[Bunny]

Somebody bought that.

[Gavin Adcock]

It was ragged out.

[Bunny]

They know the hell that it probably went through and some of the that it probably saw.

[Gavin Adcock]

So we've got a guy that's worked for us forever. His friend wanted to buy it, and I told the guys, worked for us forever. I said, I'd rather not sell it to him because I'd rather rather sell it to somebody I don't know. And they just had to deal with what it comes with it.

[Bunny]

Oh, no.

[Gavin Adcock]

So he came over to the house and was talking to me. This was. This is about a month ago. But he just picked it up because he had to get the money. And I told him, I said, the roof leaks, the sewer leaks out the back because I've dragged it all around the southeast. Like, it's. It's. It's got water leaks on the inside, probably a little mold and stuff. I was like, I'm telling you now, if you want to buy this, you know the problem. So you're not mad at me. Later he said, I want it. And I was like, all right, 14,000. He took it. So $2,000 off, and we ragged that thing out and it's gone. It made me kind of sad, though, because that was home memories. We lived in there for probably, I don't know, six, eight months traveling around the country.

[Bunny]

That is so funny. My husband had a van that he lived in when I first met him named Bertha.

[Gavin Adcock]

Yeah.

[Bunny]

And it was the crustiest fucking van I've ever seen. It had condoms on the floor, used ones. It had. It was so, like M&M's, like fucking blunt wraps. Like, it was the most disgusting thing I ever saw. And I still fell in love with this man. Yeah, it was crazy, right? Like, why do you guys all have. In the beginning, you guys all have a Bertha? It seems like it, right?

[Gavin Adcock]

Yeah.

[Bunny]

And then you guys are so attached to him. He did not want to get rid of that fucking van. Dude. Big ass brown van.

[Gavin Adcock]

I think that was some of the most fun I ever had on tour. And because I drive that camper, three or four people would ride with me. The rest of the band would all also drive. So we'd be telling a venue that wasn't big enough to go, hey, we need six or seven parking spots. And I would be so stressed all day. Is the band gonna get here? What if they get in a wreck? What if they don't make it? We're not gonna be able to play the show if our bass player gets in a wreck and is. We're just. And they'd pull up, make it. We'd play the show. It'd be insane. They'd be singing every word, and it would just kind of be. I look at them and I go, damn, we did it again. Guys. Not. There was no. There was no. No certainty about it at all. It was just all flying on the seat of your pants and answered prayers to make sure it happened.

[Bunny]

You know, those are the good old days, right?

[Gavin Adcock]

Yeah.

[Bunny]

So what's on your tour, Writer that somebody that people would clown you for if they saw it?

[Gavin Adcock]

I don't know. We got. We used to get condoms on the tour rider, but we don't get condoms on there anymore.

[Bunny]

Is everybody. Is everybody cuffed up? Everybody has girlfriends.

[Gavin Adcock]

All but a few.

[Bunny]

What about the ones who don't have girlfriends?

[Gavin Adcock]

They supply their own condoms.

[Bunny]

Oh, there we go.

[Gavin Adcock]

Yeah.

[Bunny]

Byoc. Bring your own condoms.

[Gavin Adcock]

We got nicotine pouches and lighters, and we got a candle on there.

[Bunny]

Oh, what's the scent? We need to know the scent.

[Gavin Adcock]

It's just whatever they pick out, but last one we got was, like, a. Like a manly smell. It kind of smelled like cologne.

[Bunny]

It's like mahogany.

[Gavin Adcock]

Yeah. I'm not too big on the on the rider stuff, but one day I might have some, like, oysters on there or something.

[Bunny]

Yeah. Oh, they get crazy. Writers get crazy. What city has been your wildest crowd, and which one shocked you by not. By not giving a damn.

[Gavin Adcock]

Every time I go to Ohio, I don't know if it's because there's nothing to do in Ohio. It's. It's the least tourist state that we visit. Yeah. I'm like, dang, these. I mean, that's why. I guess that's why Ohio State football is so crazy, because they ain't got really much to do, right? But every time I go there, it's just more electric than anywhere I ever play.

[Bunny]

Wow.

[Gavin Adcock]

Crazy even. Even in my hometown or where I went to college. Ohio is just insane.

[Bunny]

I love that for you because Ohio is huge, jelly roll fans. And whenever we were coming up, they. Oh, Ohio showed us. So much love. So for you to say that, I think, is so awesome, too.

[Gavin Adcock]

Hell, yeah. Yeah.

[Bunny]

I love that for you.

[Gavin Adcock]

They're trashy.

[Bunny]

Yeah, we love them.

[Gavin Adcock]

Yeah, those are our people, baby.

[Bunny]

Yeah, I love it. Okay, what crowd has been like, was not into it at all and you had to like really work for it. What city?

[Gavin Adcock]

I played in Fort Smith, Arkansas, two times and I didn't like it either time.

[Bunny]

Arkansas. Yeah, we. I don't want to talk about Arkansas because we love all of our fans there too. I know every. And my favorite water is from Arkansas, you know, but every time we go there, it's, it's, it's hard. It's a hard crowd going to win them over.

[Gavin Adcock]

I don't know why it's such a hard crowd, though.

[Bunny]

I feel like they don't express their excitement, you know, like maybe they hold it all in. They're kind of like reserved or whatever. All right, so we're going to get into a little bit of your controversy and public moments and I was fully prepared to kind of like ask you today, like, hey, Gavin, you know, like, why did you run away? But then I'm talking about the Zach Brian situation. But then I went and like scoured the Internet and I never once heard you say that you wanted to fight Zach Bryan. Am I missing that or did you only say that he's just. You don't think that it was okay for him to treat fans the way he did and that he. You don't think he's a good person?

[Gavin Adcock]

Yeah, I just said that on a, on another podcast that I didn't really appreciate how he reacted to a 14 year old girls, why didn't you sign my stuff message and telling her to get off my dick? Which is just a childish thing for a 30 year old to do.

[Bunny]

He told her to get off his dick.

[Gavin Adcock]

Yeah. On Tik Tok commented on her post and said, get off my dick. You're not entitled to anything. So I sat there all day and I thought about it and I was like, that's up. I was like, nobody's going to say nothing about it. So I did. And he decides to show up at my show in Oklahoma at the Born and Raised Festival. Goes on stage with Gabriella Rose, which he has a song with.

[Bunny]

I saw that.

[Gavin Adcock]

Which that was. That pissed me off the most. The whole day. The, the, the fence scaling stuff, the oh I'm gonna fight you, I'm gonna kill you type stuff didn't bother me. The fact that he took advantage of her set. Somebody that has was probably really excited about you coming up there and singing the song with and took that moment and screamed, yeah. Gavin Adcock three Or four times. The whole song, she had to feel like, sick because I've only been just super nice. Gabriella, I'm a big fan. I love the way she sounds. And that just. That rubbed me really, really wrong that day.

[Bunny]

Yeah, it's definitely hurtful, his actions.

[Gavin Adcock]

Hey. He just paced around the inside of the festival all day, drunk as hell, throwing up in trash cans, going up to other artists, treating them like their crew, like, and just asking, where's Gavin? And when I got to the festival that morning, they said, hey, Zach's coming today. He's probably going to try to start some to get you to not go on stage. So just be aware of that. And my crew was smart enough to go, yeah, he's going to try to pull some so you don't get to play this show for 10,000 people 30 minutes away from his house. So I had that on my mind all day. And when he pulled up on the other side of the fence, I was just chilling out there. He started coming after me. So I was like, let's see how mad I can make this guy. So I just.

[Bunny]

Your trolling capabilities are A1. I just want to let you know that.

[Gavin Adcock]

I mean, I started off my career in a public image of slander and hate, so whatever you say about me cannot hurt me.

[Bunny]

Right.

[Gavin Adcock]

I'm just. I'm gonna laugh. And like, Zach Brown fans commented on my. All past two weeks, and it's only made my post do better. I probably went up, I don't know, 6 or 700, 000 monthly listeners on Spotify just from them being whiny.

[Bunny]

Right.

[Gavin Adcock]

And yeah, I did fuel the fire for that whole next week. I posted a bunch of. To keep them going. Whatever, whatever. Keep them talking.

[Bunny]

Yeah.

[Gavin Adcock]

And do you ever think that it.

[Bunny]

Could go too far? Like, do you think trolling can go too far? Do you. Are you always conscious of what you say and what you post to make sure that it doesn't get too crazy?

[Gavin Adcock]

I just don't know how. How far, you know, how far is too far. You know, I'm not. I'm not really sure. I mean, I'm not saying anything.

[Bunny]

Yeah.

[Gavin Adcock]

Like, my opinions about Zach are an opinion of a quality person that's got some. That's got some meaning to it of like, yeah, you shouldn't be doing that stuff or you shouldn't be acting that way, or, yeah, you shouldn't come and use a young girl set to have a public beef like you. It's just shitty.

[Bunny]

Well, I was actually really surprised because I thought that you had gone publicly and said you wanted to fight him because the way the, the Internet was reacting.

[Gavin Adcock]

Yeah.

[Bunny]

You know, they were like, why Gavin ran away or, you know, Zach is crazy. And I was just like, what really happened? So when I dug deep and I looked, you literally just said you don't think he's a good person. And that was his reaction, which, honestly, it was kind of like, case in point, like, you know, he, this man lives in the public eye and for that to set him off to want to climb a barbed wire fence, I don't, I don't know if he ever, like, looks back at what he does and he's kind of embarrassed, you know, because I know I would be. I would be like, dude, this person just said he thinks I'm a bad person. And I literally just proved him right.

[Gavin Adcock]

Yeah.

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[Bunny]

Has he ever DM'd? You never tried to talk to me.

[Gavin Adcock]

I never talked to him besides that interaction at the fence. And I told him when we first started arguing and raising hell at the fence, I said, zach, I'm not fighting you, dude. I'm about to go out here and play a show. He goes, dude, you act like I've never played a show before. I'm like, obviously, you play country music, dude. But then he kept coming at me, so I was like, I'm just gonna stir this up and see what he does. And I told everybody. I was like, roll the cameras. I was like, I'll watch this. And I have a security guard, and they had festival security. And as soon as you jumped over the fence, I take off towards Zach. My security guard's tackling the out of me and going, no, you're not doing that.

[Bunny]

So, yeah, I get it. And I love that you actually respected the festival because that is, you know, one, you respected the fans so that you could show up for him. But two, you also respected the festival because that's your business. And if you would have gotten in a fight there, that could have affected other business, you know, situations for you in the future.

[Gavin Adcock]

I hadn't played in Oklahoma in probably, I don't know, nearly a year. So instead of fighting Zach and getting arrested, the biggest win I could do is go out there and play the rowdiest, most badass show. And I really. I really gave him the energy that night. I pulled out everything I had on the stage to make it the craziest shit. And I'm proud of my decision to not fall into his trap and ruin the show.

[Bunny]

I also think that was setting a really good example for the people who are watching and are supporting you too, because if they're ever in a situation like that, they. They could be like, you know what? I'm gonna take the high road also. So I think that was, you know, I know it wasn't your intention to be a good role model, but I do believe in that situation, you were a good role model for them. So In May of 2025, you were arrested in. Out here in Tennessee for reckless driving, open container. The headlines blew up. What part of that story did people get wrong? Because you know how people The Internet just. It's like a wildfire.

[Gavin Adcock]

Well, I've got this old car that was one of my dream cars when I was a little kid. It's 1973 Dodge Challenger. I grew up watching this show called the Dukes of Hazard. And they. They drove the. Generally that had the number one on the side. And I always wanted a car like that. I thought they were the most badass cars. So I. I finally made me some money. I was on the way to a show, found it on Facebook. Marketplace called my manager, Saxon, made him go to the bank, get out 40,000 cash, and drive up to Louisville, Kentucky from Nashville and pay the old man. I was like, saxon might get shot at this old man's house. But.

[Bunny]

Yeah, Saxon's here, by the way.

[Gavin Adcock]

Yeah, Saxon's over here. He went and did it, got it for me. I put a good bit of money into it. It was a. It was, to me, a really good steal. It was $40,000. I've probably put, I don't know, $50,000 into the car to, like, get it just absolutely perfect. The man told me it had some problems that needed some things changed out. And I got it. Kind of like the dude got the camper. Yeah. And I wanted to take it on a. Just a ride one night.

[Bunny]

Joy ride.

[Gavin Adcock]

A few days before, I was cleaning out in the garage. I was sitting in there. I was having a beer, cleaning dash off, wiping everything off. And I left the beer can in the floor. And when I went for my drive, I got pulled over, going 103, and took me to jail for reckless driving. And a. What was the other thing in there? Open container. And the open container is probably why I went to jail, because it was sitting in the floor. And I said, you can breathalyze me right now. I wouldn't be driving around town doing this dumb drinking.

[Bunny]

Did they?

[Gavin Adcock]

No. He said, no, I don't. I don't think you're drunk. But they ended up taking me to jail. Sat in there for five hours or something. Got up headlines, whatever. I was like, I ain't really worried about it. Went to court a few months ago, got that all cleared up, had to pay court fees. So I just took. But I. I talked to a old man when I first started out, and he said, you take every negative situation that happens to you in this business and turn it into the best positive that you possibly can. And I had this song about blacking out and going to jail that I'd wrote a long time before that.

[Bunny]

Morning break, morning bail. Sorry.

[Gavin Adcock]

So I Just told everybody I was sitting in jail thinking. I was like, what am I gonna do to make this work out? And I said, well, let's just put out a song about getting arrested that I didn't know that was gonna happen. And then we sold mugshot teas.

[Bunny]

Do you feel like you kind of manifested that by writing morning bill before this even happened? Do you believe in that? Like, if you write a song before it happens?

[Gavin Adcock]

I do believe in manifesting stuff. So, I mean, but I. I wasn't sitting there rotting morning mail going, yeah, gonna get arrested. You know, it's just like. But, yeah. They go, how. How'd that work out for you? I said, well, considering that I had to. When they towed my car, they drove it at the impound lot or took it for a drive, messed up my motor. I had to get a new motor for the car. Had to pay. Pay my ticket, and then I had to pay, like, $4,000 in lawyer fees. Some 20, 24,000 whole from that. But I probably sold about $150,000 worth of mug shot. Te's crazy. So there's little kids and husbands and wives wearing my face on the couch right now or out to dinner.

[Bunny]

I love that.

[Gavin Adcock]

And so it just worked out.

[Bunny]

I feel like you get that hustle from your dad.

[Gavin Adcock]

Yeah.

[Bunny]

Because you. You definitely have a horseshoe up your ass with a lot of things. Like, you seem to have. Like, I tell my husband that too. Like, he. Anything he puts his mind to, he can conquer. And you have that same effect. Like, if you say you want something, you go and get it, and it happens, and, like, it just keeps happening for you. So I think that's actually really a really cool momentum that you have going on.

[Gavin Adcock]

I gotta credit my mama for some of that, too.

[Bunny]

Yeah.

[Gavin Adcock]

Because when I was a little kid, if I wasn't doing good in school or I was doing bad, mama was the first one to really get on to me and be like, I'm not gonna tell your daddy, but if you don't get this right, he's gonna know. And I was the first of three kids, and I got my ass whooped every week at least twice. So you're the.

[Bunny]

You're the oldest. Okay.

[Gavin Adcock]

They whoop my ass, and then they whip my sister's ass a little bit less. And by the time my little brother come along, they weren't whooping his ass.

[Bunny]

Yeah.

[Gavin Adcock]

And I was pissed. I was a teenager. I was like, why aren't you whooping his ass? They were like, it didn't work. Yeah, we Just quit. He broke him in, I guess.

[Bunny]

Yeah, that's how it was with me and my sister too. I got all the shit and she like got nothing. And is it the same for you and your siblings? Are you guys all like different personalities because of how they were raised? Are you guys all the same?

[Gavin Adcock]

We're totally different.

[Bunny]

Yeah.

[Gavin Adcock]

All three of us. Yeah. I'd say me and my sister are a little bit closer than like closer in mindset than me and my brother. We're all pretty close, like, but me and her more similar than me and my brother. He's. He kind of had to deal with us like going to sports and doing all the stuff. And I was doing a bunch of stuff, she was doing a bunch of stuff. And he was kind of like getting drug along all the time.

[Bunny]

Yeah. Because he was the baby.

[Gavin Adcock]

So he's very like self aware about things. He's seen a bunch of stuff. I was, I was a little 14, 15 year old kid just cussing like a sailor in the house. My little, my little nine year old brother running around, he's hearing every single thing I'm saying.

[Bunny]

Does he look up to you?

[Gavin Adcock]

I think he does, yeah. There's been a time where like I got, I got arrested before. The week before, a couple days before his high school graduation. So he was kind of upset with me that I, that he felt like I like stole his, stole his light. And I felt real bad about that.

[Bunny]

Oh.

[Gavin Adcock]

And then I went to let my album out and it was on August 15, which was his birthday, which he's.

[Bunny]

A Leo, so he's emotional.

[Gavin Adcock]

It's just the way that it fell. It was like, okay, we've got this song, this song, this song and this is going to be a good date. Drop the album. He texted me this long text about how he was pissed off at me for letting it out on his. I'm like, I didn't, I wasn't thinking about it like that. Dude, I wasn't trying to steal your light. But he's went to college recently. He's going to college, Georgia Southern where I went. He's really, he's really coming around to like understanding a lot of things to me. He's getting, he got away from home. He's making his own decisions and I think me and him are growing closer and closer. Ever since he's got to college, he's kind of understanding, you know.

[Bunny]

How old is he now?

[Gavin Adcock]

19.

[Bunny]

Oh yeah. You guys are just. The older he gets and the more, you know, he matures, you guys will Definitely get closer and closer, for sure. So do you feel like people just take what you say and kind of, like, run with it? Do you feel like everybody's already against what you're going to say? Because, like, the situation with Beyonce, you had said that you don't consider her country, and that kind of, like, set the Internet on fire. And you do stand by that? Because I've seen another video and other podcasts that you've said, you know. Yeah, I truly do believe that. Do you feel like. Because I. Again, I don't feel like anything you've said. Is that crazy to warrant the press and the shitstorms that they cause?

[Gavin Adcock]

Well, start off. I listened to Beyonce with my mom growing up in the car. She has some incredible music. She's very talented. I don't think she appreciated the country genre or what it's about or the people or anything that goes into country music. I think it was kind of an invading thing of, like, I'm gonna just go let out a country album and label it as country and take my 50,000 monthly listeners and just go over here and do this. I didn't say anything off the wall.

[Bunny]

Yeah.

[Gavin Adcock]

I didn't think they made it crazy. And her fans started coming into my page and commenting, bees, the beehive don't around. I mean, but they weren't hurting anything.

[Bunny]

Yeah.

[Gavin Adcock]

I mean, like, they were just making the post do better. So I woke up one morning, and I was. I gave a little groan on a video. I was like, I was dreaming. And I want to let y' all know that ain't country and just stirred it up again. I just. I don't know. I. I get under some people's skin by my. By my. I don't give a.

[Bunny]

It's those trolling capabilities that I told you about. You. You're. They're a one. You control like a. You know how to keep something going.

[Gavin Adcock]

Yeah. And people are like, why are you still posting about the Zach stuff? I'm like, well, I'm gonna have a good week off of this.

[Bunny]

Yeah.

[Gavin Adcock]

Even though y' all are. Y' all are upset that I'm still talking about it, but I'm. I'm not pressed about it.

[Bunny]

All right, so let's talk about Stagecoach, because you're playing Stagecoach this year.

[Gavin Adcock]

Yeah.

[Bunny]

Is this your first Stagecoach? Tell me how you're feeling about that.

[Gavin Adcock]

It's gonna be awesome. I. First time I ever played in California was early this year. I went on a west tour and. Sorry.

[Bunny]

You're good.

[Gavin Adcock]

Take my Zen Out. And I wasn't really sure about country fan bases that far west. And we sold the whole tour out in a couple weeks. We went over there, and the shows were just as electric. And I think it's because they are kind of starved out from a lot of music. First of all, because it's so far away from where country music is based, which is in the southeast and east of Texas. And I have. I've had some of my most surprising shows on the West Coast. So I'm. I'm really excited to be playing, like, the biggest country festival out west. And just. We got an offer to do it the year before, but it was that, like, a terrible slot early in the day. The money wasn't really right for us to go over there and lose some money. So I was really excited when. When we got offered enough money to go over there and just. I love playing for big festivals and giant shows, and we'll come off stage sometimes when we open up for big people and the band will go, that show is okay. And I was like, well, it was better than you think, because those people didn't know who we were when we got here. And a lot of them are gonna look us up after we leave. So just because they're not singing every word doesn't mean it wasn't a good show.

[Bunny]

Absolutely. That's. We had to fight for fans in Europe with Post Malone. Everybody knows Post out there, but nobody really knew Jelly Roll. And so every night, my husband said the same thing you did. He was like, I'm just gonna go out here, and I'm gonna win this crowd over. And that's how you start building a huge fan base is, you know, just playing show by show by show. I've seen my husband play shows to 50 people, you know, and it's like, he still played that show like it was the best show of his life and won all 50 of those people over. And then you just keep doing it, and then, you know, sooner or later, everybody knows who you are. But to comment on the west coast stuff, I'm from the west coast, and so is Mimi. It's a huge country music. Like, we love country music out there because it's western and we're. We're in the west. But they. I think the reason why country music does so good out there is because it's always like, the rock bands are out there, and country barely ever goes out there. So when state. It's stagecoaches time to play. That's like, what's the other festival called? Coachella. That's like country Coachella. So everybody, like, goes just bonkers whenever the lineup gets announced. So I was really excited to see your name on there.

[Gavin Adcock]

Yeah, I'm. I'm excited to go. Just, this means a lot to a bunch of different people. And, like, like you said, with Jelly playing 50 people, I'm never gonna go out to a show and go, it's just not gonna be it tonight. I mean, if we're playing for nobody or we're playing for a hundred thousand, we're gonna give them all we got. You know? That's always how it's gonna be.

[Bunny]

Absolutely. I'm gonna ask you a couple more questions, then I'm gonna let you go, because I've already talked your ear off today. But five years from now, when I call you again, I'll probably see you again before then at award shows. But to come back on the show, what do you want to be bragging about to me then?

[Gavin Adcock]

Hope to be headlining stadiums? Yeah, that's always been the plan, ever since we were. I was paying the band 150 piece. They were making enough to pay for their gas there and back and make a few hundred bucks. I just told them, look, guys, y' all stick with me, I'm gonna work my ass off, and we're gonna be headlining stadiums one day. Just stick with me. So we've been continuing to grow, and I hope that we just keep letting out music at the same cadence and get there, and I hope that's what I get to tell you when we come back.

[Bunny]

Well, at the rate of songs that you're writing, you're gonna definitely get there because you are. You're pretty hard worker, so. And a lot of people don't chase the dream. They let the dream chase them, and they expect everything to come to them. And you're not doing that. You're not sitting around waiting for any of that. Do you want to win awards? Is that something that you're in this for?

[Gavin Adcock]

I'm not going to let it determine my career if I don't win any awards. I got nominated for ACM last year. Didn't win. We went, had a good time, saw everybody. I enjoyed it. My girlfriend enjoyed it more than me. She gets to dress up, get all done.

[Bunny]

Yeah, that's.

[Gavin Adcock]

That's great. But I'm just gonna keep letting out the music that we let out, and if it's eligible or good enough to whoever standards that gets to pick, then that'll be that. But, you know, yeah, it'd be great. And I'd be. I'll be happy about it.

[Bunny]

You'll definitely win some awards. If you could leave one message for the fans listening right now, what would it be?

[Gavin Adcock]

I don't really do this for me anymore now that I've got some money. Just want them to get music and enjoy their life, you know, and if I can add some kind of value to that, by the time they get 60, 70, 80 years old, and they go, man, we got to see Gavin Adcock. And he let us out all these songs, and they helped me, and the amount of people that come up to me and go, man, you saved my life. I'm like, I don't think I saved your life, but I'm glad I could help if that's. If that's what is helping you, you know?

[Bunny]

No, Gavin, you're a sweet boy. I really enjoyed our conversation today. Thank you.

[Gavin Adcock]

Thank you. I appreciate it.

[Bunny]

And you better come back and visit me.

[Gavin Adcock]

I will.

[Bunny]

All right, can you tell everybody where they can find you, if they're not already following you, like your shout out.

[Gavin Adcock]

Your socials, you find me. Gavin Adcock music on all platforms. Gavin Adcock on Apple Music, Spotify, YouTube, Amazon, Pandora.

[Bunny]

Where can they buy the mug shot T shirt?

[Gavin Adcock]

Because you know everybody's gonna want that, gavin@cop music.com.

[Bunny]

Let'S go, baby. Thank you so much for being here.

[Gavin Adcock]

Thank you so much.

[Bunny]

I appreciate you. Thank you guys for tuning in to another episode of Dumb Blonde. I will see you guys next week. Bye.