Gavin Adcock doesn’t have any Number One country songs yet, but he’s determined that country music fans know his name. And, to his credit, many probably do.
Before he ever released his debut album for Warner Music Nashville in 2024, Actin’ Up Again , the Georgia native was already becoming an expert in both making and embracing viral moments. He parlayed his 2021 dismissal from the Georgia Southern Football team for shot-gunning a beer on top of a moving school bus into social media fame, which in turn helped shine a light on his songwriting. His song “Ain’t No Cure,” released that same year, has since been streamed more than 70 million times on Spotify.
And last May, Adcock used an arrest for reckless driving as a way to sell merch with his mugshot photo, all of it leading up to th