Gavin Adcock is on his rise to fame in country music, he stopped by The Bobby Bones Show to share how things are going for his career.
Adcock's journey to country music is unique. He was playing football in college when he tore up his knee his senior year. He tore his patella, meniscus, and got two fractures that year after playing football collegiately for 4.5 years. After his injury, he was stuck inside the house and he coped with the change by writing music. He had actually hit up a friend the week prior to his injury asking him to come down and play some music with him. He got his first guitar at 16-years-old, but didn't finally attempt to play it until he was 22. Adcock wasn't very good when he first started, and he's still learning today. He starts to write a song by finding a tempo and melody then he writes the song from there. The first song he learned was Keith Whitley's "When you Say Nothing At All," and a bunch of George Strait and Hank Williams songs because they played simple songs he could learn easily. The first song of his own that he wrote was called "Goin' Gone," and it was one of his biggest songs he had in his first year of pursuing music.
Originally, Adcock wanted to be a bull rider, but his dad made him watch the movie 8 seconds and seeing the main character die made him rethink all of that. He grew up on a cattle farm in a very country community. Now his dream is to have his own cattle farm with 100 or 200 acres of land in Texas or East Tennessee.
When it was time to play some bars, Adcock went to a popular one in his hometown and told the owner he could bring people in. The owner wouldn't pay him, would only give him profits from how many drinks sold. He decided to go across the street to another bar and the owner said he would pay him $300 for his performance. Adcock was right, he was able to bring in a whole crowd and packed out the bar. The owner was thrilled and paid him $500 instead. That's when the original bar owner then came to Adcock asking him to play at their bar next. His parents have always been supportive of him chasing music, they never told him not to do it. His mom is worried that he won't say himself, she thinks the road, money and meeting everyone can change who he is. However, Adcock is very confident that won't happen.
His first song just got sent to country radio "Never Call Again." It was written with the idea of a woman in mind, and he got emotionally attached to this particular song so he's excited to have it at radio. While in studio, Adcock performed a cover of George Strait's "Troubadour," watch it below!