{"id":175896,"date":"2025-07-30T15:12:50","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T19:12:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2025\/07\/30\/gavin-adcock-on-the-secrets-to-his-sold-out-raucous-shows-platinum-hits-the-fans-are-never-going-to-wonder-where-we-went-2\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T15:12:50","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T19:12:50","slug":"gavin-adcock-on-the-secrets-to-his-sold-out-raucous-shows-platinum-hits-the-fans-are-never-going-to-wonder-where-we-went-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2025\/07\/30\/gavin-adcock-on-the-secrets-to-his-sold-out-raucous-shows-platinum-hits-the-fans-are-never-going-to-wonder-where-we-went-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Gavin Adcock on the Secrets to His Sold-Out, Raucous Shows &amp; Platinum Hits: \u2018The Fans Are Never Going to Wonder Where We\u00a0Went\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- no image --><\/p>\n<div><!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-paywall\">\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tWhen Gavin Adcock finishes one of his raucous sets, the stage is often slick from a rain of beer and littered with cans and water bottles that fans have tossed onstage \u2014 though Adcock has thrown plenty of his own drinks into the crowd, too. It\u2019s become a tradition of sorts between the singer, known for his onstage antics, and his fans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cThere\u2019s been a bunch of crazy stuff thrown onstage, from joints to bras to cans \u2014 anything they got in their pockets, they\u2019ll throw up there,\u201d Adcock tells <em>Billboard<\/em>. \u201cIf it\u2019s too crazy, I\u2019ll just be like, \u2018If your mama and sister was up here, you wouldn\u2019t be throwing them beer cans.\u2019 But I\u2019ve got hit a few times. It comes with the territory, I reckon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tHe\u2019s also created as much of a stir in the headlines as he has with his crowds, including with his recent <a data-id=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/country\/gavin-adcock-slams-beyonce-cowboy-carter-concert-rant-1236010705\/\" data-type=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/country\/gavin-adcock-slams-beyonce-cowboy-carter-concert-rant-1236010705\/\">comments<\/a> about Beyonc\u00e9\u2019s <em>Cowboy Carter<\/em> album, and having a recent dustup with Nickelback\u2019s sound engineer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tBut fans would be remiss in presuming his sophomore major label album <em>Own Worst Enemy<\/em>, out Aug. 15 on Thrivin\u2019 Here Records\/Warner Music Nashville, is solely chock full of booze-soaked bar anthems and wild tales.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"embed-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Gavin Adcock - Last One To Know (Audio)\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pJDr1tAdRFg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cIt\u2019s an album about self-destruction,\u201d he says. \u201cWe tried to pick the most intense songs that just make you feel, or something that makes me think or puts me in a really bad spot that can make me borderline depressed. I\u2019ve always found that listening to an artist that\u2019s going through some deep s\u2014t heals me a lot better than some artist that\u2019s letting out happy songs all the time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tOver the past few years, he\u2019s issued some rock-fueled fan favorites \u2014 such as \u201cDeep End\u201d and the grunge-tilted \u201cOn One\u201d \u2014 but some of his biggest songs have been songs of heartbreak and regret, like the RIAA-Platinum certified \u201cA Cigarette,\u201d and the traditional country-leaning \u201cUnlucky Strikes.\u201d The new set contains more of that mixture, including the Vincent Mason collaboration \u201cAlmost Gone\u201d and the fan favorite \u201cLast One To Know,\u201d which details regrets over \u201cwild-ass women\/ Hard-ass living,\u201d a song that stems in part from Adcock\u2019s own experiences.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cI\u2019ve definitely woke up in some random spots a time or two, but I was just lucky to be alive,\u201d he says. \u201cThose nights are really eye-opening. You have a lot of anxiety the next day, and you\u2019re just real blessed that you just made it home and you just pace yourself next time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tRaised in Watkinsville, Georgia, the former Georgia Southern University football player grew up working on his family\u2019s cattle farm. Initially, he dreamed of being a bull rider for the Professional Bull Riders (PBR). Though Adcock already sang and wrote songs for fun, and when he blew out his knee playing football in 2021, he used his recovery time to write and release songs, starting with \u201cAin\u2019t No Cure.\u201d Adcock and his team have kept up a feverish pace of music releases, including 2022\u2019s \u201cGoin\u2019 Gone,\u201d and 2023\u2019s \u201cDeep End\u201d and \u201cA Cigarette.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"embed-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Gavin Adcock - Sunset (Audio)\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cZJNqBkx24k?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cOwn Worst Enemy,\u201d the title track of his forthcoming album and a solo write from Adcock, is inspired by his career ambitions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cYou\u2019re the biggest competition in your life. You got everything going for you, the whole world in your hands and the only thing that\u2019s going to stop you from chasing a dream is yourself,\u201d he says. \u201cI lived at home with my parents until I was 25 years old. I was making good money on streams and playing some shows, but I stayed with them until about a year and a half ago. If I never moved to Nashville, I could have kept letting out music and I\u2019d be financially stable \u2014 but I got to the point where I said, \u2018I want to go build a team around me and add as much fuel to the fire as possible.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tOn the strength of his live shows and songs that were connecting with fans, he signed with Red Light Management and then Warner Music Nashville, which released his major-label debut project, <em>Actin\u2019 Up<\/em>, last August.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tLess than a year later, he\u2019s already preparing to release it\u2019s followup, issuing a cavalcade of songs from the 24-track <em>Own Worst Enemy<\/em>, including \u201cNever Call Again,\u201d the \u201990s country-influenced \u201cSunset,\u201d \u201cNeed To\u201d and \u201cMorning Bail\u201d (released shortly after Adcock\u2019s recent arrest in Tennessee for reckless driving and speeding). \u201cNeed To\u201d is at No. 44 on <em>Billboard<\/em>\u2019s Hot Country Songs chart.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cI noticed that I was fans of people who were not letting music out but every year-and-a-half, maybe two years,\u201d Adcock says of his consistent stream of songs. \u201cI was like, \u2018Okay, here\u2019s our lane. We\u2019re never going to starve them. The fans are never going to wonder where we went.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"embed-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Gavin Adcock - Never Call Again (Audio)\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nbe2UeaHkec?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThat practice helped earn Adcock his first ACM Awards nomination earlier this year for new male artist. His 30-show Acting Up Again (Again) Tour sold out, and he\u2019s currently on his headlining Need To Tour.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tHe also recently played his first stadium show, opening on Morgan Wallen\u2019s I\u2019m The Problem Tour. For Adcock, the shows are both a promise fulfilled and a hopeful harbinger of what is to come.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cI was telling the [band] when we were playing small 250-400 cap rooms and honky-tonks \u2014 I was like, \u2018If y\u2019all stick with me, I\u2019m going to keep on letting out songs, and we\u2019re going to play stadiums one day,\u2019\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tBelow, <em>Billboard<\/em>\u2019s July Country Rookie of the Month Adcock talks about the songs that move him, his collaboration with Vincent Mason and his dream festival lineup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t<strong>You talked about how sad songs can heal you the best. What are some of those songs for you?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tJust old George Jones, like \u201cHe Stopped Loving Her Today,\u201d or [John Conlee\u2019s] \u201cRose Colored Glasses.\u201d I feel like when you finally get yourself to your saddest and you let your emotions out instead of holding them in like all dudes are expected to \u2014 if you hit a nerve on a song, cry it out, you honestly just feel better.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t<strong>How did \u201cAlmost Gone\u201d with Vincent Mason come about?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThat first show I ever played at Zydeco Pub [in Atlanta], I sold all the tickets and didn\u2019t have an opener. I\u2019d heard one of his songs and DM\u2019d him. He came down in 2022, and in 2024 he went on tour with me. He\u2019s a really good guy. I was a little bit bigger than he was at the time, and I told him, \u201cLet\u2019s do this song together\u2026 People think I\u2019m just the meanest motherf\u2013ker around and you\u2019re the nicest guy in town. It\u2019ll throw \u2018em off, but they\u2019ll like it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t<strong>Where does that tendency come from, to always want to keep people on their toes a bit?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tSomeone told me about an artist they had worked with a long time ago \u2014 they said, \u201cThe best thing he ever did was, when he had his worst moments of his career, he\u2019d turn it into the best possible outcome every single time.\u201d That hit me hard, and I\u2019ve tried to make sure that when I have tough times I used it to my advantage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t<strong>Recently, you said you felt Beyonc\u00e9\u2019s <em>Cowboy Carter<\/em> overshadowed some artists who primarily make music within the country genre, and there was a bit of backlash around that. What was that like for you?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tI mean, I was dealing with a lot of scrutiny and DMs, just people being real hateful to me. I started my career chugging beer on the top of a school bus in college and I caught a lot of heat from that, so I\u2019m not scared of what they want to say about me. They\u2019re not hurting me in any way, not on a streaming standpoint. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tI made the comment in the video that I made the next day, after everybody had posted what I said onstage, and I said, \u201cYou know what? I listened to Beyonc\u00e9 in the car with my mom, saw her Super Bowl halftime performance and basically threw out a compliment about Beyonc\u00e9,\u00a0and was like, \u2018I\u2019m just going to stand behind that. Her album is not country. She came over from a pop fanbase.\u2019 I don\u2019t think she embraces it enough, or cares enough about the country community or anybody that makes country music or lives the life. I just don\u2019t believe it\u2019s a country album.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t<strong>What did you think of Post Malone\u2019s <em>F-1 Trillion<\/em> project?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tI just really think he appreciates country music in its core, and he\u2019s really embraced the town and the artists of country music. I\u2019ve had a couple conversations with him and sat around on the back porch of [Nashville music venue] Losers in Nashville, and he was playing some of the most old-school country music that you could hear. He was singing along to it. It\u2019s nothing new to Post Malone to make whatever music that he wants to, and I just appreciate how he embraces the town and just is claiming to be a country artist after putting in the work and the time and meeting everybody and just doing the thing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t<strong>If you could curate your own festival who would be on the lineup?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tI get the comparison of Waylon Jennings a lot. I\u2019ve got a mole right near my dimple of my cheek and Waylon had the same thing. I think it\u2019s funny that I\u2019ve kind of adopted his style and I get comparisons. So Waylon would be on there, but also Alan Jackson. He\u2019s one of the all-time greats. Then I\u2019d love to see the original Lynyrd Skynyrd, before the plane crash.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t<strong>What was your first concert you attended?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tIt was Aaron\u2019s Amphitheatre \u2014 [Cellairis Amphitheatre at] Lakewood now \u2014 near Atlanta. I saw Tim McGraw. I was eight, and it was right after he let out \u201cThe Cowboy in Me\u201d and \u201cLive Like You Were Dying.\u201d I got to give it up for Tim for some of my rowdy stage presence. He ran out there first thing, raising hell and cussing a bit. That caught my attention. I locked in, and that was when I decided I wanted to perform. I was like, \u201cYeah, I\u2019m going to raise hell up there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t<strong>When you\u2019re having those onstage moments, what beer are you usually drinking?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tUsually Miller Light. I was at a festival the other day and their sponsor was Budweiser Anheuser-Busch, and I had a Miller in my hand onstage, and the camera guys wouldn\u2019t video me. I noticed it and was like, \u201cDamn, I guess I\u2019ll put the beer down.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t<strong>Who would you love to collaborate with?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tI\u2019d love to do something with Morgan [Wallen] down the road, as we gained a relationship and find a song that fits both of us. I\u2019ve been texting Koe Wetzel a little big. I was listening to Koe when I was in college. We met a couple of months ago and he\u2019s a real nice guy. I\u2019d like to do something with Ella Langley or Megan Moroney or Lainey Wilson. I don\u2019t like to force anything \u2014 I\u2019ve never been the type of artist that wanted to feel like anybody thought I was looking for a handout. I just want the time to be right for every situation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/country\/gavin-adcock-country-rookie-month-july-1236033324\/\">Aller \u00e0 la source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Gavin Adcock finishes one of his raucous sets, the stage is often slick from a rain of beer and littered with cans and water bottles that fans have tossed onstage \u2014 though Adcock has thrown plenty of his own drinks into the crowd, too. It\u2019s become a tradition of sorts between the singer, known [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musique","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175896\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}