Dumb Blonde - Gavin Adcock: Country’s Viral Underdog

Episode Date: October 6, 2025

This week, Bunnie sits down with viral country artist Gavin Adcock, who opens up about his wild ride from a cattle farm in Georgia to the national stage. Gavin gets real about his rough-and-tumble upbringing, his parents’ chaotic relationship, and the lessons he learned from his dad. He shares how a college suspension over a music post accidentally launched his career—and the early grind that followed, from $300 bar gigs to $500 shows.Nothing’s off-limits as Gavin addresses the controversies that came with fame, including his public feud with Zach Bryan and his arrest for reckless driving. He talks about signing with Warner Nashville while keeping full creative control, his excitement for playing Stagecoach, and the importance of staying true to his fans.Gavin also reflects on persistence, passion, and performing for crowds as small as 50 people—all while chasing the dream of headlining stadiums. With an ACM nomination under his belt and new music on the way, he’s focused on evolution, authenticity, and connection over clout.Tune in to hear Gavin’s story of grit, growth, and good ol’ Georgia heart—and find his music everywhere from Spotify to Apple Music to YouTube.Gavin Adcock: WebsiteWatch Full Episodes & More:www.dumbblondeunrated.comSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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Is this thing on? What's up you sexy motherfuckers? Welcome to another episode of Dumb blonde. Today, we have country's loudest curveball, George's wildest export, and probably the only guy who could turn a college suspension into a viral country artist career. Mr. Gavin Adcock is in the building.

What's going on, yo? Dude, thank you for being here early. I appreciate that. I just want to show it up, got done right, and we got in the car. 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, they're like, he's here. And I'm like, oh, shit. 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? It's probably like 50, 50, 60, 40 music personality. 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 don't bother me anyway.

I think one of 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 thought, 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? Yeah, from when I was a little kid, my mom and dad had their second child. I was two 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 cattle and buys them one day, sells him 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 uh 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 little kids so it kept me all uh it kept my life pretty spicy when i was younger yeah they'd they'd raise hell mama leave come back

um 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 uh yeah but it definitely made me have some kind of fire 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 uh they all drank a little bit yeah they've been through times where they just come home from work have a drink have a couple too many just argue and but uh you know i wouldn't have took them any other way that's like my kind of party me and uh 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 saw a lot more crazy stuff when i was growing up than she did 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 drive i want to like dive into that also so You said you grew up on a cattle farm in Watkinsville, Georgia. What was that like? Like, what's a story from that farm that people wouldn't believe unless they saw it? 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 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. get called like in the middle of the night and it's just and uh there's been a lot of cattle go through that piece of land i've seen them shipped out all around the country and uh we've my dad'd come home you'd see you'd see a load of cows coming to the barn and he'd clean off the back tags of them and clean them up and we'd load them up the next morning and take him the sale and he'd try to just swap them for a profit and he's really a gambler he's an addict Like, he's a cattle addict. Like, I've called him and like...

He's addicted to the hustle. Yeah, he's addicted to the hustle. And I got a bunch of that from him. I appreciate that, you know, from one hustler to another. 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. You know, it's been really weird not being able to go places that I've always been able to go to. And 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 route 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 that worked on the kettle 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 I had it made before I had it made you know that's hard for somebody that's grew up like small town living well you know it's only going to get worse right the more that you get it's going to be to where you're not like even able like my husband can't even go to the grocery store. I call my husband a politician because he loves it to kiss babies and shake hands. 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? 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 act they're acting like i'm not a like i'm not real like i'm just like just figuring their mind it's just but they i'm going to keep chasing it and keep growing i've just uh you're not doing it for the fame you're doing it for you yeah it's pretty

much what you're saying. 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, six thousand cap rooms, which is really big for me from when I started out and 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. You've come a long way in a short time. Like to be playing five, six thousand 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 didn't 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 thank you it's got to be like overwhelming because I know how we feel so I could only imagine how you feel um I read somewhere that you wanted to ride bulls in the pbr before football and music is this true yeah when I was a little bit. kid, I watch a 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 a test pen. And we rode a couple of 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 in medical bills and uh appreciate him for pushing me away from that you know but i i do love going to watch the rodeo and think those people are badass yeah is it like the adrenaline is it the toughness like what was it that pulled you into because that's a fucking that's scary yeah it was the adrenaline i've grown up on a lot on 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 a near-death experience at six, seven, eight 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 it was, but I enjoyed it. And yeah, I've always been an adrenaline chaser. I could appreciate that.

I tried to make my, 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 fucking wild asshole. And yesterday I tried to dress him up as a ghost because I saw this really cute video of this fucking cow running with a sheet. 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 shit. We laughed our asses off. But it was scary. I couldn't imagine. that happening at seven or eight years old. That's the only thing I knew. It was just like, here, boy, let's go do this grown man shit.

Sink or swim. Heck, yeah, and I'd go feed cows with him. He loved when I went, because it'd save 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-something years old, I can just feed the cows, smoke a little pot and see the fam, I guess, you know. I love that. Did you ever get addicted, not addicted, did you ever get attached to any of the cows?

Like, did they become like your pet? Because cows are fucking cool. Yeah, we had this one cow as 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 a pet.

And she lived all the way until 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 it was really emotional for everybody in my family. It was just like a dog, you know. Oh, my goodness. I couldn't even imagine. I don't even want to think about when crunchy passes. So at 16, you got a guitar, but you didn't take it seriously until later.

Is that true? I didn't start playing it until I was 22. Why not? You just weren't interested at that time. I was playing a bunch of sports. I was playing football, wrestling, baseball, and then just working in the summertime of my dad. And I just never got around to it. And I was always fascinated with music.

A 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. my fall routine is already packed podcast glam travel you name it cooking hard pass factor keeps me fed like a queen with chef prepped dietitian approved meals that are ready in minutes comfort food but make it healthy more variety more meals choose from a wider selection of weekly meal options including premium seafood choices like salmon and shrimp at no cost support your wellness goals enjoy even more g lp1 friendly meals and new Mediterranean diet options packed with protein and good for you fats. Savor global flavors. For the first time, try Asian-inspired meals with bold flavors influenced by China, Thailand, and more.

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the realization that that was probably going to be the end of football. And I was not enjoying the 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. Yeah. 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. Yeah. I've heard you talk about how toxic that environment was for you. And I think that that's actually really cool that you 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 were playing for Georgia Southern.

You tore your, did you tear your knee first or did you tear your knee after the bus incident? I tore it before. I texted buddy on Sunday and said, hey, you want to come down to Georgia Southern and play some music with me? I'd played guitar. 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 a fourth game of the year. We take these school buses around the campus and go past the bars and all the tailgates, and we, 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, I don't know, it's just 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, knowing 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 uh played the game lost by touchdown and uh the next day barstool posted it it blew up fucking barstool they're always fucking shut up i love them though yeah they they helped me out and they and fuck shit up that day so it's a double-edged sword but right 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 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 and 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 got to go if you're going to post throughout the season. And I was like, well, I'm just going to take off of my music. So we parted ways. I had that chip on my shoulder and I just started letting out songs one after another

and I had that mind all the time I was like I'm not going to let these people be the end of me I love that that you had that foresight to do that but you would think that you were bringing such great attention to the game and just the league why would they kick you off like that's crazy

well they loved the attention before the season started gotcha And then we won the first game barely. I wasn't playing. And then lost the next two games. I came back that game, chug the beer on the bus. That was just big.

If we'd won the game, it wouldn't have been a big deal. But we lost. So everybody was just pointing the finger at, and I was a person getting pointed the finger at because I chugged the beer on the bus. And I was like, whatever. Yeah. 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 yeah absolutely so let's rewind because you had said that um the barstole 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 tour 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, rode three hours back home to Watkinsville with 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 a inside person. So it was a good way to come.

cope. And I started talking to people about booking shows. I hit up the best place to play in Statesboro, it was called the Blue Room. I said, hey, I'd love to come play one night during Sylvice 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 going to make $300. Which is actually really 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 saw.

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. It's like, $500 in my hand. I was like, hell yeah. I was like, didn't think that was going to happen. Blue Room hit me up the next day. It's the, and was like, we're sorry. We, uh, 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 to 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. Yay. That's been real fun to look forward to. How does that make you feel? It's great. I feel like I accomplished what I wanted to accomplish there. 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 going to fucking work for me. 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. It was 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.

And then I wrote this song called Thriving Here that I still play at 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'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.

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? I've really enjoyed old cowboy music my whole life from Wayland Jennings to George Strait to more modern, like red dirt type stuff. And I love red dirt. I just like how unpolished it is.

And I was one of the first people in the same. southeast 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 who are some of your inspirations growing up besides whalen Jennings yeah I get the whalen comparison a lot because I've got like his complexion and this you do have a little bit of the resemblance I wear the vest and stuff but I don't ever sit down and write a song and go, I want to be just like Whalen Jennings. Right.

I'm just a, I'm a big fan of him growing up. I love listening to Alan Jackson. Some of my Alan Jackson's more serious. I mean, he's got great boat party songs, but it's like more serious stuff that he's wrote, like, remember when or Sissy song or just, I'm a huge, sad Alan Jackson fan. And listen to some Tim McGraw growing up. 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. Whetzel and Parker McCullum and Harder South Texas. We had Parker on the podcast. He's fucking hilarious. Hell, yeah. He's been posting some funny stuff lately. I've been seeing him. I guess he has a few drinks after a show or he's stoned or something. And he gets on there and posts some funny-ass shit. 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 fucking smokesweed and drinks like he's a funny motherfucker

I think you guys have you guys met yeah a couple times yeah I opened up for him that's right one time I don't know three years ago mm-hmm 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 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. I 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. Yeah. It's just like 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? 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 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 rode, I got up at 8 a.m. 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 1 p.m. You're like hitting the bottle by then. You're like, yeah, 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. Oh, so it's kind of like method acting. Yeah. Like you like take on the emotions and you just pour it out in music. I think that's where the best songs come from when you really, really get into that character that you're writing.

Yeah. And it can really carry into the rest of the day, you know. You're like, don't let me end up on. true crime, sister. I tend to be very picky the rest of the day after I write a song. Like, I'll come home after I wrote two songs with either me or myself or me in 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. Is it hard to pull yourself out of that? sometimes sometimes i just get just locked on to little shit that's pissing me off no do you consider yourself a moody person depends on the day i guess yeah it depends on what you're writing about yeah poor haley she only wants you to write love songs from here on out oh she's a moody person too don't you let her don't her don't you let her psych you out 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 tic-tok last night yeah she's great she really has uh helped me out for the better for sure i've um i've been in a relationship probably like six months eight months by the time i'm at haley so i was just kind of doing my own thing uh 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 I was sitting in the bar as soon as it opened up with some of the bouncers that were my buddies at that bar that's that 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 and 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 bounce her next to him he goes only thing we find in here is panties and i was like she's not going to talk to me now so she walked on out i'll never see her again and 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 uh you got a boy for friend. And she said, nope. I said, you want one? And 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. 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. Yeah, well, 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 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 feeling.

physically cheating on her, but I, 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.

No, I love that. I actually was, I follow you. So I saw the breakup and stuff like that. And you could see a switch after she wasn't in your life. Like you were 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 shit face plastered.

And then since she's been back around, you can see kind of like a switch in you too where you're still you but at the same time you're like you can tell you're trying to take better care of yourself yeah no doubt i mean how we were running for a couple months and not getting any sleep and waking up having to 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 it's, it's nice and we have a weekend off and we don't go out. Like people, people think that I, I drink 24-7,

but I'll have a drink, one drink before I go on stage on 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 shit out of my face. I don't, I don't want a drink i'll smoke a little pot and watch a little tv yeah behind every every great man is a good woman and i feel like a good woman is a backbone especially for um 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 fucking just fly around everywhere my husband was the same way when we first got together 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. Oh, no. It's just not a, 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 it's like, and for all the people that do that, and that's, I was going to say, there are some people who actually really look forward to that. I have a couple of 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 of their own, I guess, right? 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 the same thing about me, but I can't imagine being 40 and being with a 20 year old and being like relating to them at all. Yeah. Not many things. Like what the fuck do you guys even talk about? Yeah.

I couldn't even imagine. So you've dropped three albums, Bonfire Blackout, Acton up again and now Own Worst Enemy. How do you hear your sound evolving? across these records. 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 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 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 listen into specific things And the writing's definitely matured. I wrote Bonfire Blackout 99% by myself. I probably wrote. And 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 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 whatever. I don't understand why people get so hung up on stuff like that. You're making music. 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 fucking weld a straight line you know it's like leave us the fuck alone that's it's ridiculous um 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 where you like you know just keep adding songs or what was the process and 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

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and they hadn't started, they go, you got any advice? I would write as many songs as 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 after that, I told myself I would 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 on 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 i literally i just walked down other room, I was like, I ain't talking to you. Because I'm always writing.

I guess it's hard for you to sit still. 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. I like just getting up in the morning. My girlfriend sleeps in. Most women do. 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 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 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 i love that you could have much more um 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 um 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. The only time I've ever called myself an outlaws in my song of 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. Right.

I don't really, really soak in that outlaw term a lot. like you know we just do crazy shit and 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 uh 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.

Right. I don't know if I've ever publicly said that. Yeah. I think I don't know if I was watching something where I think you had said it, but I'll have to say it to our resurface. So you said that you wouldn't sign a piece of paper. You're not signed to somebody right now?

I am, but I kept, I'm signed to Warner, Nashville. But my biggest thing was I'm going to, on my tracks when I leave. Gotcha. Your master's. And I get to choose when we let out music and what we let out. So you're doing it on your terms? Yeah.

Which I think a lot of people don't understand that, especially in the independent realm. Everybody always says, oh, you signed your soul away, you know, whenever you signed 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?

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 going to 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 tell people this I said I made my first million dollars before I left living my parents and I think that's awesome people are you living with your parents if you made 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 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 of 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'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 we're going to keep doing it how we've been doing it. 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? 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 had the mindset of let's write party songs and 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 life 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 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 shit 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? I used to pull this camper around to my first shows. And the first show I ever played was in Birmingham, Alabama, at the Zataco 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 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 edges. How big was this camp? camper, just a little mini camper? Yeah, it was just a 24-foot, had one bedroom and two little bunks in a bathroom and a little slide. And I love that you make the best out of every situation.

Hell yeah. I actually sold that camper last week. Somebody bought that? It was ragged out. Do they know the hell that it probably went through and some of the shit that it probably saw? So we've got a guy that's workforce forever. His friend wanted to buy it.

And I told the guy's workforce forever. I said, I'd rather not sell it to him because I'd rather sell it to somebody I don't know. And they just had to deal with what it comes with it. Oh, no. So he came over to the house and was talking to me. This was 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 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, oh, 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. It was memories.

We lived in there for probably, I don't know, six, eight months traveling around the country. That is so funny. My husband had a van that he lived in when I first met him named Bertha. And it was the crustiest fucking van I've ever seen. It had condoms on the floor used ones. 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. 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 yeah and then you guys are so attached to him he did not want to get rid of that fucking van did big ass brown van i think that was some of the most fun i ever had on tour because i'd drive that camper three or four people would ride with me the rest of the band would 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 going to get here what if they get in a wreck what if they don't make it we're not going to be able to play the show if our bass player gets in a wreck and is we're 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 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 happen, you know. Those are the good old days, right? Yeah. So what's on your tour writer that people would clown you for if they saw it? I don't know. We got, we used to get condoms on the tour rider,

but we don't get condoms on there anymore. Is everybody cuffed up? Everybody has girlfriends now? All but a few. What about the ones who don't have girlfriends? They supply their own condoms. Oh, there we go. B-Y-O-C, bring your own condoms.

We got nicotine pouches and lighters, and we got a candle on there. Oh, what's the scent? We need to know the scent. It's just whatever they pick out. But last one we got was like a manly smell. It kind of smelled like cologne. It's like mahogany. Yeah, I'm not too big on the rider stuff.

But one day I might have some like oysters on there or something. Yeah. Oh, they get crazy, right? get crazy. What city has been your wildest crowd and which one shocked you by not by not giving a damn? Every time I go to Ohio, I don't know if it's because there's nothing to do in Ohio. It's the least tourist state that we visit. I'm like, dang. I mean, 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.

Wow. It's crazy. Even in my hometown or where I went to college, Ohio is just insane. I love that for you because Ohio is huge jelly roll fans. And whenever we were coming up, Ohio fucking showed us so much love. So for you to say that, I think is so awesome too. Hell yeah. Yeah, I love that for you. They're trashy.

Yeah, we love them. Those are our people, baby. 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? I played in Fort Smith, Arkansas two times and I didn't like it either time. Arkansas? Yeah. We, I don't want to talk shit about Arkansas because we love all of our fans there too. I know. I know. And my favorite water is from fucking Arkansas, you know, but every time we go there, it's, it's hard. It's a hard crowd. You're going to win them over. I don't know why it's such a hard crowd though 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 oh no i'm talking about the 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 Brian? 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 you don't think he's a good person? Yeah, I just said that on another podcast that I didn't really appreciate how he reacted to a 14 year old girl's. 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. He told her to get off his dick. Yeah, on TikTok, fucking 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 fucked 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 Gabriela Rose, which he has a song with. I saw that. Which that pissed me off the most the whole day.

The fence scaling stuff, the, oh, I'm going to fight you, I'm going to 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

fuck yeah Gavin Adcock three or four times the whole song she had to feel like sick because I've only been just super nice to Gabriella I'm a big fan I love the way she sounds and that just that rubbed me really really wrong that day yeah it's definitely hurtful his actions and 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 shit their crew like shit 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 shit 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 shit

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 fucking guy.

Your trolling capabilities are fucking A1. I just want to let you know that. I mean, I started off my career in a public image of slander and hate. So whatever you say about me, can not hurt me. Right. I'm going to laugh and like Zach Bryan fans commented on my shit all past two weeks

and it's only made my post do better. I probably went up, I don't know, six or 700,000 monthly listeners on Spotify just from them being whiny bitches. Right. And yeah, I did fuel the fire for that whole next week. I posted a bunch of shit to keep them going. whatever keep them talking yeah and uh do you ever think that it 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 i just don't know how how far you're like how far is too far you know i'm not i'm not really sure i mean i'm not saying anything yeah like my opinions about zach or 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 you shouldn't come and use a young girl set to have a public beef.

Like, it's just shitty. 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 internet was reacting. 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, 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 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 able to be like, dude, this person just said he thinks I'm a bad person and I literally just proved him right. Yeah. You know? The proceeding was brought to you by ZEPA. Is the only FDA-approved mouthpiece

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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. like obviously you play country music dude but then he kept coming at me so i was like i'm just going to stir this fucker up and see what he does and i told everybody i was like roll the cameras i was like y'all watch this shit and i have a security guard and they had festival security and as soon as you jumped over the fence i take off towards that my security guards tackling the fuck out of me and going no you're not doing that shit 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. 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 them 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. 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 could be like, you know what, I'm going to 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. 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 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 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. Saxon's here, by the way. 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, to me, a really good steal. It was $40,000. I'll probably put, I don't know, $50,000 into the card 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 uh i wanted to take it on a just a ride one night enjoy ride a few days before i was cleaning out in the garage i was sitting in

there it's having a beer cleaning dash off wiping everything off and 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 breathalize me right now I wouldn't be driving around town doing this dumb shit drinking did they no he said no i don't i don't think you're drunk but they ended up taking me to jail sitting 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 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 had wrote a long time before that. Morning break. Morning bail. Sorry.

So I just told everybody I was sitting in jail thinking I was like, what am I going to 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 going to happen and then we sold mugshot teas do you feel like you kind of manifested that by writing morning bail before this even happened do you believe in that like if you write a song before it happens i do believe in manifest and stuff so i mean but i wasn't sitting there right in morning bell going yeah going to 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. I had to pay my ticket, and then I had to pay like $4,000 in logger fees, some $24,000 in the hole from that. But I probably sold about $150,000 worth of mugshot. cheese since then. So there's little kids and husbands and wives wearing my face on the couch right now or out to dinner. I love that. It just worked out. I feel like you get that hustle from your dad. Yeah. Because 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 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. I got to credit my mama for some of that, too. Yeah. 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 going to tell your daddy, but if you don't get this right, he's going to know. And I was the first of three kids, and I got my ass whooped every week, at least twice. So you're the oldest. Mm-hmm. Okay. 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 whipping his ass.

Yeah. 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. So we just quit. You broke him in.

I guess. 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? We're totally different. Yeah.

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.

Yeah, because he was the baby. So he's very, like, self-aware about things. he's seen a bunch of stuff. I was a little 14, 15 year old kid just cussing like a sailor in the house. My little nine-year-old brother running around. He's hearing every single thing I'm saying. Does he look up to you? I think he does.

Yeah. There's been a time where I got arrested before the week before a couple days before his high school graduation. So he was kind of upset with me that he felt like I, like I, like. like stole his light. And I felt real bad about that. And then I went to let my album out, and it was on August 15th, which was his birthday. Which. He's a Leo, so he's emotional.

It's just the way that it fell. It was like, okay, we've got this song, this song, this song, this song, and this is going to be a good date to drop the album. He texts 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 of 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 how old is he now 19 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 biance 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 in 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? 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 kind of. country music. I think it was kind of an invading thing of like, I'm going to 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. Yeah. I didn't think of. They made it crazy. And her fans started coming into my page and commenting bees. The beehive don't fuck around. I mean, but they weren't hurting anything. thing.

Yeah. I mean, like, they were just making the post do better. So I woke up one morning and I gave a little groan on a video. I was like, mm, I was dreaming and I want to let y'all know that shit ain't country and just stirred it up again. I just, I don't know, I get under some people's skin by my, by my, I don't give a fuck. It's those trolling capabilities that I told you about. They're A1.

You can troll like a motherfucker. You know how to keep something going. Yeah, and people were like, why are you still posting about the Zach stuff? I'm like, well, I'm going to have a good week off of this, even though y'all are upset that I'm still talking about it, but I'm not pressed about it. All right, so let's talk about stagecoach, because you're playing stagecoach this year. Yeah. Is this your first stage coach? Mm-hmm.

Tell me how you're feeling about that. It's going to be awesome. First time I ever played in California was early this year. I went on a West tour, and sorry. You're good. 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've had some of my most surprising shows on the West Coast, so I'm really excited to be playing 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 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 going to look us up after we leave so just because they're not singing every word doesn't mean it wasn't a good show. Absolutely. We had to fight for fans

in Europe with Post Malone. Everybody knows posts 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 going to go out here and I'm going to win this crowd over. And that's how you start building a huge fan base is 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 fucking 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. Um, but to comment on the West Coast stuff, I'm from the West Coast. And so is Mimi. It's a huge country, um, music. Like, we love country music out there because it's Western and we're, we're in the West. Um, 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 fucking, uh, what's the other festival called?

Coachella. That's like fucking country Coachella. So everybody like goes just bonkers whenever the lineup gets announced. So I was really excited to see your name on there. Yeah. I'm excited to go. Just this means a lot to a bunch of different people. And like, like you said, with jelly plan, 50 people, I'm never going to go out to a show and go, it's just not going to be it. And I mean, if we're playing for nobody or we're playing for 100,000, we're going to. give them all we got you know that's always how it's going to be absolutely well i'm going to ask you a couple more questions then i'm going to let you go because i've already talked your ear off today but five years from now when i call you again well i'll probably see you again before than at

award shows but to come back on the show what do you want to be bragging about to me then hope to be headlining stadiums yeah that's always been the plan ever since we were I was paying the band $150 piece, and 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 going to work my ass off,

and we're going to 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. well at the rate of songs that you're writing you're going to 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 i'm not going to let it determine my career if i don't win any awards i got nominated for acm last year uh didn't win we went had to

good time. Saw everybody. I enjoyed it. My girlfriend enjoyed it more than me because she gets to dress up. Get all dolled up. Yeah. That's great. But I'm just going to 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, it'd be great. And I'll be happy about it. You'll definitely win some awards. If you could leave one message for the fans listening right now, what would it be? 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 help me and the amount of people that come up to me and go, 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 what's helping you, you know. Oh, Gavin, you're a sweet boy. I really enjoyed our conversation today. Thank you for being here. Thank you. I appreciate it. And you better come back and visit me. I will. All right. Can you tell everybody where they can find you if they're not already following you, like your shout out your socials? You can find me Gavin Adcock music on all platforms.

Gavin Adcock on Apple Music, Spotify, YouTube, Amazon, Pandora. Where can they buy the Mugshot t-shirt? Because you know everybody's going to want that. Gavin Adcockmusic.com. Let's go, baby. Thank you so much for being here. Thank you so much. I appreciate you.

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