Gavin Adcock

One Liner: Raw young country guy from Georgia giving me nothing

Wikipedia Genre: No Wikipedia - country

Home: Watkinsville, GA

Sunday.

Thoughts:  I figured this guy must be a star to have his name up there on the poster, but I've never heard the name before.  My initial impression is that this is pretty terrible.  A rough voice that doesn't quite get where it wants to go, and some generic lyrics.  Sorry, I'm sure that someone out there thinks this is great, but I'm surprised at how lo-fi and unpolished this sounds.  Like a kid in high school made this in his bedroom hoping to get noticed by a girl.  And she turned him down.

Let's find out who he is - maybe then we'll understand?  He doesn't have a Wikipedia page, but I now know that he is from Oconee County, GA.  He grew up in Watkinsville working his family ranch and dreaming of riding bulls in the PBR.  He went to Georgia Southern to play football but hurt his knee in 2021 and turned to making music during rehab.  So, good to know that he isn't some long-established star I should have known.  But I am also disappointed that a sub-headliner is this uninteresting to me.

As I keep listening, I'm wondering if this is just the Gen Alpha version of Charlie Robison.  Ex-football player going into music about good times and hard drinking and whatnot.  And because I'm old, I just don't get the appeal anymore and would rather just hear "My Hometown" and "Indianola" again instead.  Interesting.

2022 EP called Thrivin Here, 2023 album Bonfire Blackout, and 2024 album Actin' Up Again (at least by now he learned how to use an apostrophe).  The early stuff is somehow even more raw, and a little more twangy.  I could see that one being released so that he could sell something after playing the local bar in the Georgia Southern strip.  But "Ain't No Cure" from that first EP has 40 million streams, making it one of his top tracks.

There we go with the usual - frequent mentions of his truck and his lady's nice legs and cruising down the road.  This song also made it on to the 2023 album, and is his second biggest streamer overall.  HIs top streamer is from the new album, named "A Cigarette" with 67.9 million streams.

You know that scene in Big when the annoying prick at the toy company is trying to explain his stupid building transformer thing, and Josh is like "I don't get it."  That is running through my mind right now as I keep listening.  Maybe this one is tapping in to the Zach Bryan whirlwind because its basic and stripped down?  Dunno.  I have no interest in seeing this one live.