Gavin Adock is making all sorts of amends lately.
In case you forgot, 2025 was seemingly the year for feuds all across country music, with artists like Zach Bryan, Charley Crockett, Gavin Adcock, John Moreland, Oliver Anthony and more getting into some beef with fellow acts in the genre. Out of all those names, it was typically Adcock who found himself at the epicenter of multiple of these long-running spats.
Of course, the biggest, most viral one was Adcock vs. Bryan, which resulted in the “Something in the Orange” singer jumping a fence in an attempt to fight Adcock at Born & Raised Festival in Pryor, Oklahoma, after months of online taunting between the pair.
Recently, however, it looks as if the “Run Your Mouth” singer is ready to put the year-long beef with Bryan to rest. Last week, he’d tell Bobby Bones that he believes the entire Born & Raised Fest situation and the aftermath “put his feet on the ground,” adding that he hopes the Oklahoma native is doing better.
“I really hope the guys doing better, ’cause it seemed like he was in a really terrible spot there for a while. I mean, I think that situation kind of put his feet on the ground.”
Beyond Bryan, however, Adcock also had a long-running feud with Charley Crockett last year as well. In case you forgot, let me give you a breakdown of the entire situation.
The back and forth between the two artists began in August 2025 when Crockett took to social media and unleashed an epic rant on the state of country music, calling out bro-country, Morgan Wallen, and defending Beyoncé. The “Jamestown Ferry” singer pointed out that the biggest star in country music makes pop music too, and admittedly doesn’t even listen to much country, but he praised Wallen for at least being honest about it:
“Hey, country folks. Beyoncé ain’t the source of your discontent. It was 25 years of bro country. The number one country artist on Earth listens to nothing but rap. Openly says he doesn’t really know any country music. Gotta respect his honesty.
The machine points to a black woman who’s making a statement about marginalized people being removed from the conversation altogether, and somehow we all act like the entire pop industry didn’t just ambush roots music. These ‘country boys’ been singing over trap beats for years.
So what’s different now? Authenticity. Many of those business folks called me early on. They had whole albums pre-written and recorded ready to just plug me in. I have receipts. It’s harder than ever to keep the public’s attention. They said and I quote, ‘We wanna get into country music where you have audience loyalty.’ Hot today, forgot tomorrow.
I don’t need to put down a black woman to advance my music. That’s just embarrassing to the idea of America and I got no respect for it.”
Many country listeners interpreted the last part of Crockett’s rant as a shot toward Adcock, who spoke about his distaste surrounding Beyoncé’s crossover into country music. At a show earlier that summer, Adcock shared with his audience his thoughts that the Cowboy Carter album should not be considered “country.”
After Gavin caught wind of the shot from Charley Crockett, he took to social media to respond, calling Crockett a “cosplay cowboy.”
“Somebody needs to tell the “act” that has let out (the cover) of James Town Ferry 6 times, he should just work on letting out quality original music. I got more cowsh-t under my pinky than you have seen your whole f—in life. Hank sr called and asked about the cosplay cowboy.”
It appeared that the two might be on a path to finding peace after Crockett left Adcock a gift at a Kansas venue of 60 roses and a copy of his record, Dollar A Day. The “On One” singer made a video thanking Crockett for the gift, while still shading him slightly; it was clear that he wanted the last word and continued to throw dirt on Crockett’s name.
After receiving the gift, he got on Twitter and threw more shade Crockett’s way:
“Praising a guy that said Beyoncé is country proves we live in a broke world.”
After that, the two were relatively quiet, with other artists like Benjamin Tod, Paul Cauthen, and Aaron Watson chiming in on the matter. All was quiet until an incident on stage with Wallen and Adcock during a show in Toronto in September 2025. Here, Adcock brought a Charley Crockett shirt onstage with him during a performance with Wallen, holding it up while the “Whiskey Glasses” singer gave the shirt the double bird.
While it was quiet for a day or two after the Wallen and Adcock stunt in Toronto at the time, Crockett finally responded to the incident and officially ended the petty feud. In an Instagram post, he recognized that there are larger issues going on in the nation right now, instead of some social media drama.
“I’m starting to think ol’ #1 and his sidekick are working for me… all jokes aside, I love each and every one of you. I’m just a song and dance man. Sometimes a saint. Sometimes a sinner. You have choices and you ain’t gotta listen to what I say. It’s a privilege to make music for a living, something that you afford me.
We don’t have to agree on much. You’re all welcome here. If I could ask one thing of you right now, please just be good to each other. The first record deal I ever got they were telling me ‘Charley boy, it’s a Coke & Pepsi world. You gotta play by the rules!’ They never realized I drink Dr. Pepper.”
A year later, it looks as if the two are finally on good terms, and Adcock is continuing his trend of making amends with all the artists he found himself at odds with in 2025.
Shortly after this year’s CMA Award nominations were announced, Crockett would take to Instagram to repost an admittedly hilarious meme that called him, Adcock, Bryan, Wallen and Jelly Rolly the nominees for “Drama Queen of the Year.”
Shortly after Crockett reposted the meme, Adcock would appear in the comments and praise him for being able to laugh at himself, also joking that at least the two got nominated for something despite getting zero nominations at the real CMA Awards.
“At least we got nominated for something! You’re funny for this Charley”
In a pretty shocking turn of events, Crockett would then reply and praise Adock and his music, to which the Georgia native would agree and say “likewise.”
I don’t know about you, but I did not have Adcock making amends with Crockett AND wishing Bryan well in the span of a week after a tumultuous year on my 2026 bingo card.
