Gavin Adcock
Appearances
On the Bus with Troy Vollhoffer
From Football to Flying Beers with Gavin Adcock
Well, we were in Ohio. The crowd was crazy. It was one of the biggest shows I ever played. And the first time, it was my fault. I just got to in the moment and I said, if you got a drink, throw that motherfucker. So you're on fire, right? Yeah, I was going crazy. And then here just goes a rain of cans and beers. And a little bit after that, we had them flying every once in a while.
On the Bus with Troy Vollhoffer
From Football to Flying Beers with Gavin Adcock
It just depends on the city, really. Sometimes you go, there won't be but a couple things thrown. But at a rock concert, you see some stuff going through the air. That's just what it is at any wild rock concert. And it died off a little bit. And then I'm singing in Arkansas, which we played at this place in Arkansas. We played with Giovanni and the Hired Guns at the end of 2023.
On the Bus with Troy Vollhoffer
From Football to Flying Beers with Gavin Adcock
I think, yeah, 2023. It's called the Majestic in Fort Smith. And we played the show with Giovanni and them, and I didn't feel like it was a very good show to me. I felt like we could have done better. We got a headline the next time, and I'm going into the last song and about to sing the last chorus of Run Your Mouth.
On the Bus with Troy Vollhoffer
From Football to Flying Beers with Gavin Adcock
and a half-full can comes and zips me in the face, and I just let the dude have it. I lost my shit there for a second, and I just laid into him. We played the last song, and after that, I was like, we're not going back to Ford Smith, Arkansas. I was like, I'm definitely not going back to the Majestic. But, yeah, we've toned that down. The venues are all having to pour in cups.
On the Bus with Troy Vollhoffer
From Football to Flying Beers with Gavin Adcock
It's a lot better to get hit with a plastic cup than it is a full beer can. And sometimes I think there's a group of ten people. Eight people wanted to go. Two people didn't want to go, but they didn't want to miss out, so they got drugged by the friends of the show. They might not even like the music, but they're there. And they're like, I'm going to hit this guy with a beer can.
On the Bus with Troy Vollhoffer
From Football to Flying Beers with Gavin Adcock
And some people you watch in the crowd, and I've seen them, they're so into the song. I'm sitting there behind the mic playing the guitar, and I'm watching one or two people that are like... You've never seen 20-something-year-old dudes turn to each other during a song and sing it to each other like...
On the Bus with Troy Vollhoffer
From Football to Flying Beers with Gavin Adcock
like they do at these shows i'm like young like girls like get into like pop music or something and i'm like the dudes are rocking out right they're rocking out together having bro time and i've literally seen dudes like get so into the song they just launch the beer in the air like a like a firework and i'm like they just had like i feel like they just had an out-of-body experience they're just having such a good time that they couldn't control themselves they just throw the beer
On the Bus with Troy Vollhoffer
From Football to Flying Beers with Gavin Adcock
Yeah, that's my favorite part about it. It's just knowing that I've got problems that they don't know about. They've got problems I don't know about, but they relate to the music and it hits them in a certain way that it hit me when I wrote it. And they just can zone out from everything else they got going on. So were you a bull rider at one time?
On the Bus with Troy Vollhoffer
From Football to Flying Beers with Gavin Adcock
Played since I was a little boy.
On the Bus with Troy Vollhoffer
From Football to Flying Beers with Gavin Adcock
I wanted to be a bull rider when I was a little kid, so bad. It was the only thing I could think about, and I ended up, my dad made me watch Eight Seconds, which is a movie by Lane Frost, and he dies at the end of it. And after that, he basically kind of talked me out of being a bull rider. A couple times in high school, me and my buddies, we got talking about it.
On the Bus with Troy Vollhoffer
From Football to Flying Beers with Gavin Adcock
Wow. That's great. So where'd you go to school at? I went to George Southern University. Played for four and a half years and had an injury. I fell into music, started writing, and... I never looked back on that.
On the Bus with Troy Vollhoffer
From Football to Flying Beers with Gavin Adcock
I grew up on a farm with a lot of country folks, and they would have a test pen about 30 minutes away from the house, and we would go, $20, show them our fake ID, and we rode a couple bulls a couple different times. Just to say we did, we were just like, we got to. One day we won't be able to, and... Yeah, that was the extent of my bull riding career. But I knew that it wasn't a career.
On the Bus with Troy Vollhoffer
From Football to Flying Beers with Gavin Adcock
It was more of like a dream. Right.
On the Bus with Troy Vollhoffer
From Football to Flying Beers with Gavin Adcock
Yeah, it's fun and it's a thrill. And I know why they do it.
On the Bus with Troy Vollhoffer
From Football to Flying Beers with Gavin Adcock
headlining and doing the business and and it's only getting bigger which is awesome i just want to go down like one of the greats i want people in i mean whalen died in 97 i believe people are still talking about him today i hope in hope in 30 years people are still talking about me and what I had going on and talking about my flaws. I hope people go, he was real.
On the Bus with Troy Vollhoffer
From Football to Flying Beers with Gavin Adcock
He was a real human and he had shit going on just like everybody else.
On the Bus with Troy Vollhoffer
From Football to Flying Beers with Gavin Adcock
Yeah, most of the time I either dig back into a past experience I had. I would say that's probably 75% of the time is just something that has directly happened to me. And then the other 20 to 25%, I put myself in a situation that I think of or something that could possibly happen to me or that has definitely happened to somebody else. And I just put myself in that headspace and that emotion.
On the Bus with Troy Vollhoffer
From Football to Flying Beers with Gavin Adcock
And I tell a lot of people, I say, when you write a really, really sad song, you wake up at nine o'clock in the morning and you ride it and it's over by one, the rest of your day can be kind of awful. It can put you in a really, like, you really need to take some time off after that.
On the Bus with Troy Vollhoffer
From Football to Flying Beers with Gavin Adcock
Yeah, like a real, like, real weird feeling space of, You don't want to get drug into that too much. You need to take some time to just do something you enjoy after that. And I enjoy writing songs, but when you write a... I wrote a murder ballad one time and I let it out. It's called Caretaker. And it's just a real aggressive song. It's about basically this bad outlaw. It's based in the 1800s.
On the Bus with Troy Vollhoffer
From Football to Flying Beers with Gavin Adcock
No, I had a feeling like a few days before and text a buddy and said, Hey, from high school. I said, what are you doing this week? And he said, not much. I said, you want to come down and play some guitar? That was Sunday, Tuesday, tore my knee up. And, uh, Dove into it, and I said, maybe this is a sign from God that I need to be making music.
On the Bus with Troy Vollhoffer
From Football to Flying Beers with Gavin Adcock
And I come home to my girlfriend that day and she was talking, she was talking. I was like, baby, I really need to go to sleep. I really need to reset because I'm really pissed off right now. And I'm not pissed off at anything. I'm just in that mindset. And I was like, I just need to reset.
On the Bus with Troy Vollhoffer
From Football to Flying Beers with Gavin Adcock
at a bar, which is, it's in Athens. It's called General's, my favorite bar of all time. He come up to me, he said, what's up, man? My name's Jack. I write songs. I'd love to get with you and show you some of them. And I was like, all right, whatever. So probably like six months down the road, we ended up getting together, wrote the craziest party song that I've ever let out.
On the Bus with Troy Vollhoffer
From Football to Flying Beers with Gavin Adcock
And we just started getting together and writing Two Ways when I was living back in Georgia up until a year ago. And he moved up to Nashville probably three or four months before me. And I was letting out some of his songs. and he was getting approached by publishers. He was like, what do you think I should do?
On the Bus with Troy Vollhoffer
From Football to Flying Beers with Gavin Adcock
I said, I think you should let me let out about three or four more of these songs, and then you can decide, because then you'll have some different songs out there. I think he had six or seven songs out with me before he signed. And then I've been writing with... He signed with Warner Chapel, and I've been writing with Colton Venter over the past year, and we're letting out a...
On the Bus with Troy Vollhoffer
From Football to Flying Beers with Gavin Adcock
We're letting out the first song I ever wrote him this Friday called Never Call Again. I also wrote that with Jack. And another person I've been writing with a lot lately is Red Akins. Yep. We've probably got five or six songs under the belt over the past couple months. He's a neat guy, isn't he? Oh, yeah, no doubt. He's a treat, man.
On the Bus with Troy Vollhoffer
From Football to Flying Beers with Gavin Adcock
We've clicked pretty good, and I've enjoyed writing with him every time. And then I wrote with, it's the only girl I've ever wrote with, And we've been doing, like, three- and four-way rides. Her name's Joy Beth Taylor. She rides a lot with Elle Langley. But we've had three rides together now and wrote some really good songs. She brings a really... cool aspect of the table when we write.
On the Bus with Troy Vollhoffer
From Football to Flying Beers with Gavin Adcock
I come in with a little guitar piece, killer melody. And then I say that, but I come up with a lot of the lines when we write, but I'm way stronger on a melody. Somebody will start playing guitar and I'll just start, it sounds like gibberish. I'll just find the melody and like put fake words in it as I'm catching the melody.
On the Bus with Troy Vollhoffer
From Football to Flying Beers with Gavin Adcock
And then somebody in there and says, sounds like you said that, or sounds like you said this. I'm like, yeah, add it in there. And we just put the puzzle together. But I'm way better with the melody. So what's coming up next? What are you going to drop? What's the next single? What are you thinking? I got a new song called Never Call Again. It's a nice, high-energy love song.
On the Bus with Troy Vollhoffer
From Football to Flying Beers with Gavin Adcock
And then from here to when we let out the album, I'm going to let out four other singles besides that one. rolling right up in the album, a song every four weeks. I've let out a song at that pace from January until now. And I don't want to let off the gas. I just want to give people the songs I got them and I'm ready for them to hear them.
On the Bus with Troy Vollhoffer
From Football to Flying Beers with Gavin Adcock
And we've got a tour coming out this fall that we just let out about a month ago. It's called the Need To Tour. It's Probably around 20-something dates. Southeast, Midwest, and Northeast. We just tore up the West. I've never been to California and Oregon and Seattle and all those places, but we just got back from a 28-day run.
On the Bus with Troy Vollhoffer
From Football to Flying Beers with Gavin Adcock
I listened to a lot of Waylon Jennings. A lot of Leonard Skinner, Kid Rock, Alan Jackson, Johnny Cash, Jason Aldean, getting a little more modern, a little closer to my teenage years. And I like Hank Williams Sr. a good bit too. Hank Jr. as well.
On the Bus with Troy Vollhoffer
From Football to Flying Beers with Gavin Adcock
So we're hitting the Southeast and Northeast and some Midwest this fall on the NEATU tour.
On the Bus with Troy Vollhoffer
From Football to Flying Beers with Gavin Adcock
I credit that a lot of the time for me being where I'm at. is when people were playing the long game, I was just like, let's just feed them. And they'll download a song, and it'll go down. They might download two more songs, and then I'll let out another one. If they like it, they'll download it. And their whole year of...
On the Bus with Troy Vollhoffer
From Football to Flying Beers with Gavin Adcock
new songs that it'll have me sprinkled in there and and i i'm not the biggest fan of an album because all this like all these songs that i'm going to put on this record this year i will have no problem letting them out as a single so it'd be all singles I feel like they're all singles, and that's how I write them. I want them to all be that quality of songs.
On the Bus with Troy Vollhoffer
From Football to Flying Beers with Gavin Adcock
Yes, sir. I appreciate you. We'll see you at Country Thunder.
On the Bus with Troy Vollhoffer
From Football to Flying Beers with Gavin Adcock
I got my first guitar at 16, and I couldn't wrap my head around learning to play it. And I started picking on it when I was getting done with college. And my mom had a heart condition, and I really wasn't getting a lot of progress. And she had a heart condition and went to the hospital and was on a ventilator for a little while.
On the Bus with Troy Vollhoffer
From Football to Flying Beers with Gavin Adcock
And I remember when I was worried about her on the ventilator, I just coped by picking up the guitar. And over those couple days, I made the biggest jumps of my career learning guitar and just picked up as the days went by.
On the Bus with Troy Vollhoffer
From Football to Flying Beers with Gavin Adcock
come in and see somebody you hadn't seen in a while. So you just kind of start shooting the shit. And eventually somebody's like, well, let me show you this idea. And they do an idea, and you bring what you had to the table. And sometimes they meet, sometimes they don't. Sometimes nobody's idea is the idea, and you come up with something new. I wrote a lot by myself when I was starting out.
On the Bus with Troy Vollhoffer
From Football to Flying Beers with Gavin Adcock
get so into the song they just launched the beer in the air like a like a firework they just had like i feel like they just had an out-of-body experience they're just having such a good time that they couldn't control herself they just throw the beer
On the Bus with Troy Vollhoffer
From Football to Flying Beers with Gavin Adcock
I just was real determined to write my own songs. And when I got up to Nashville, I started getting in rooms with a lot of people from different backgrounds and different places and different writing styles. And I've really enjoyed it. We've been writing some of the best songs I've ever written in the past three or four months.
On the Bus with Troy Vollhoffer
From Football to Flying Beers with Gavin Adcock
I had a first record, and then that was more of like a compilation over my first year and a half. And I wrote nearly every single one of those by myself, minus maybe two songs. Then the next record, which was my official first record that didn't come out as a compilation, was Acting Up Again. And I had wrote those ever since I got done with that first record and stacked them up.
On the Bus with Troy Vollhoffer
From Football to Flying Beers with Gavin Adcock
And I probably had 30 songs I was sitting on at the time, maybe 35. And I just picked the best ones that I thought would go together on that record.
On the Bus with Troy Vollhoffer
From Football to Flying Beers with Gavin Adcock
Full Moon Studio in Walkinsville, Georgia, where I still record all my stuff. His name is Jay Rogers. Oh, that's cool. And I called him in 2021 in July. He didn't answer. I emailed him. He answered. Went in there, cut one song, and we never looked back. We got 40-something songs out now, and we're working on finishing up this album soon. and kind of keep on going.
On the Bus with Troy Vollhoffer
From Football to Flying Beers with Gavin Adcock
Yes, sir. It's the busiest year of my career tour-wise, and I think last year we probably played 50 shows maybe. So we had 100 on the books this year, and It's been great. I love waking up in a new town, going to get a cup of coffee, being a tourist, basically. Going to check out somewhere you've never been. The...
On the Bus with Troy Vollhoffer
From Football to Flying Beers with Gavin Adcock
the different landscapes and just, it's basically just a different world everywhere you go and I'm enjoying it. That's great. Yeah, touring can be a, do you sleep well on a bus?
On the Bus with Troy Vollhoffer
From Football to Flying Beers with Gavin Adcock
It's kind of bad, but everybody, everybody on the, everybody in the band says when they go home for a couple day break that they're like, I can't wait to get back on the bus because it just, we're basically more used to being on the bus than we are at home. Something about the white noise and the bus rolling down the road, I sleep better on the bus than I do at the house. So,
On the Bus with Troy Vollhoffer
From Football to Flying Beers with Gavin Adcock
I just hope everybody that came to the show got away from whatever they got going on in their life. And for that, three, four hours, maybe the whole day. I hope they wake up in the morning and they go, we're going to the Gavin Adcock concert tonight. And they get with their friends, have some drinks, they go to dinner, they just make it a whole day.
On the Bus with Troy Vollhoffer
From Football to Flying Beers with Gavin Adcock
And they party and get to the show and the anticipation is built up all day. I hope people want to come back.
On the Bus with Troy Vollhoffer
From Football to Flying Beers with Gavin Adcock
Yeah, it's real crazy to me when a song that I let out, I'm real into the numbers. I love watching how this one streamed compared to that one and the different scenarios and the holidays. And if people are in school, people are out of school, what date it fell on, what other stuff's going on around it. And there'll be songs that I go, that one didn't stream as good as that one.
On the Bus with Troy Vollhoffer
From Football to Flying Beers with Gavin Adcock
And we go to play it at a show two, three weeks after it's out. And they sing every word. And it's really refreshing to go, okay, they're listening. They just maybe like this one better than that one. It's really cool to have the fans sing along to something that you wrote and put your heart into and you come up with it.
On the Bus with Troy Vollhoffer
From Football to Flying Beers with Gavin Adcock
Oh, yeah. I get up and see how they're doing. Spotify and Apple, as of recently, Apple added it, but it tells you how many people are listening at one time. Oh, wow. So I get up in the morning by about 9, 9.30, check it, and... I watch it enough to know if it's high or low for that day. And I know if tomorrow's streams that come out, how they're going to be.
On the Bus with Troy Vollhoffer
From Football to Flying Beers with Gavin Adcock
I watched it when I first started, and it would say 13 people are listening right now. And by about 11 o'clock at night, it would say zero people are listening right now. And I'll check it. at its peak, and there'll be 5,000, 6,000 people listening nowadays at a time on Spotify, and that's just amazing.
On the Bus with Troy Vollhoffer
From Football to Flying Beers with Gavin Adcock
Give it up to my manager Saxon was there from nearly the beginning and the first show I ever played he was there probably about six months after we met and I was picking up speed I was like one day I'm gonna need a manager Saxon we'd become friends and I'd drive up from Georgia and stay on his couch Bradley Jordan at Peachtree Entertainment lives in Athens and
On the Bus with Troy Vollhoffer
From Football to Flying Beers with Gavin Adcock
And I was real cut off from everything else because I was like, I'm too new in this. I don't want to deal with people on the outside. I need to make it myself before I join Nashville and I join agent, management, anything. And me and him went to lunch and he was like, let's book you some shows. So I started playing some little tiny clubs in Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi.
On the Bus with Troy Vollhoffer
From Football to Flying Beers with Gavin Adcock
And they were selling pretty good. So those two were there with me from the beginning.
On the Bus with Troy Vollhoffer
From Football to Flying Beers with Gavin Adcock
Yeah, he broke a few acts early on and found them and put them in their early day shows, which is awesome. At first I was like, I don't know, but I'm glad I took the chance and started playing the shows.
On the Bus with Troy Vollhoffer
From Football to Flying Beers with Gavin Adcock
You've never seen 20-something-year-old dudes turn to each other during a song and sing it to each other like they do at these shows. I'm like, young girls get into pop music or something. The dudes are rocking out, right? They're rocking out together, having bro time. And I've literally seen dudes like...
On the Bus with Troy Vollhoffer
From Football to Flying Beers with Gavin Adcock
I like going somewhere I've never been and just seeing the reaction before we go on stage. Maybe we hit it hard the Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and you're whooped, and you're backstage, and all the band's kind of whooped. I'm ready for an off day, and the fans are just...
On the Bus with Troy Vollhoffer
From Football to Flying Beers with Gavin Adcock
they hadn't they hadn't had that the past few days so their their energy feeds into you you can hear it down the hallway into the green room and they're chanting and screaming and having a good time and we take a shot of liquor and get stirred up and everybody's this is great we're good to go um talking about your influences so skinner was a big influence for you yeah they're uh they're a great bunch of guys those guys
On the Bus with Troy Vollhoffer
From Football to Flying Beers with Gavin Adcock
Yeah, it was pretty crazy. We opened up for them on the Rock of the Countries last year, those dates. So that was a surreal moment for me to open up for Kid Rock and Skinner and Travis Tritt and a bunch of people I listened to when I was in a car seat, which is just mind-blowing to me.
On the Bus with Troy Vollhoffer
From Football to Flying Beers with Gavin Adcock
I love all of them for different reasons. The club, if you can get a set of 800 people playing, I feel like a club's like 200 to 800 to 1,000 people. If you can get those people with the right energy, it's so compact, it's insane how good it feels in there. And also how trashy it kind of feels. The PA's screaming.
On the Bus with Troy Vollhoffer
From Football to Flying Beers with Gavin Adcock
There's a lot of different noise that the front of house dude has to work to get through in there. Festivals are really cool to me because if there's... 12 to 20 acts on a festival, there's only a select of them that came there just to see me. And a lot of people don't know who I am when I get there.
On the Bus with Troy Vollhoffer
From Football to Flying Beers with Gavin Adcock
But that's great for me because I give them the opportunity to walk out of there and go, I don't know who that Gavin Hancock dude is, but we're going to see him again. And then arenas are just... Amazing because when it's dark and it's just people about as far as I can see in there and it sounds so good, I love a good sounding arena.
On the Bus with Troy Vollhoffer
From Football to Flying Beers with Gavin Adcock
That's where I feel like I've sounded the best so far in my career. That's fantastic.
On the Bus with Troy Vollhoffer
From Football to Flying Beers with Gavin Adcock
Who are you taking out with you? Well, we took out Vincent Mason last fall and me and him let out a song together in November. and we sold out the first Acting Up Again tour, and we're in the middle of the Acting Up Again again tour, and we took out Fox and Veed, which is a rowdy rock band that's on the come up right now. They just let out a new song.
On the Bus with Troy Vollhoffer
From Football to Flying Beers with Gavin Adcock
Yes, sir. I grew up in northeast Georgia, right outside of Athens, bulldog country. And my daddy was a...
On the Bus with Troy Vollhoffer
From Football to Flying Beers with Gavin Adcock
And Will Jones, which is a more traditional sounding country artist, he's going to be coming out with us this Friday on the East Coast. And we split up this tour with Fox and Beat and them. And in the fall, we've got Baker Blankenship.
On the Bus with Troy Vollhoffer
From Football to Flying Beers with Gavin Adcock
which he played a show at a rodeo with us recently, and we hung out, Braxton Keith, and we've hung out at a couple festivals and things run into each other, and Lanie Gardner, and she's having a moment right now. She's doing a song, Warren Ziders, and she's letting out her own stuff, and she's gaining popularity, so I'm excited about having all those people on.
On the Bus with Troy Vollhoffer
From Football to Flying Beers with Gavin Adcock
Not yet. We're going with Wallen to Canada coming up in the summer. And 2026, we're going to Australia to play, what's the festival called? CMC Rocks.
On the Bus with Troy Vollhoffer
From Football to Flying Beers with Gavin Adcock
cattle rancher trader just a little bit everything in the cattle business and my mom was a nurse and i grew up uh working wild cattle and farming and hauling cows and different stuff grew up around country scene a good bit played a lot of country music growing up on the radio and i just fell in love with and found out that was my genre wow that's great so football big part of your life Yes, sir.
On the Bus with Troy Vollhoffer
From Football to Flying Beers with Gavin Adcock
Yeah. And I'm excited about that. I'm going to definitely get me a bed on the plane.
On the Bus with Troy Vollhoffer
From Football to Flying Beers with Gavin Adcock
I'm going to pay the extra money to get me a plane bed because I've never flown that far.