Taking the high road.
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 Crockett, he took to social media to respond, calling him 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 X (formerly 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. Last month, the two seemed to have put the beef to rest in a pair of Instagram comments, which then led to them officially burying the hatchet in a now-viral Instagram post of the two having a drink at Skinny Dennis in Nashville on October 6th.
Here, Adcock would caption his post by noting they don’t see eye to eye, but are dropping their pride.
“We might not always see eye to eye but that don’t mean we can’t drop our pride and bullsh*t and be friends”
In his post, Crockett would simply add:
“The country music world’s healing y’all”
During an appearance on the Tomi Lahren Is Fearless podcast over the weekend, Adcock addressed the longstanding beef and his decision to make amends with Crockett. Here, he’d begin by giving a brief rundown of the catalyst that was his original clash with Beyoncé and her fans last year.
“He came after me because I said I was gonna pass Beyoncé on the country albums charts when I let out my last album. ‘Cause I’m not a big fan of all these pop artists and stuff seeing that country music is cool, and they’re like, ‘We’re gonna go do country music.’ So that irritated me at the time.
He mouthed off about it, and I’m not one to bite my tongue. So I mouthed off right back, and we bickered.”
From there, the Georgia native would then dive into why he decided to officially lay the beef to rest. At first, he’d touch on the divided nature of our country politically, noting that he wanted to set an example alongside Crockett and come together.
Additionally, he’d revealed that they had been texting for a few weeks before they made the now-viral post, finishing by saying he doesn’t have any problems with him anymore.
“The state that the world’s in right now, there needs to be a lot more people coming together. This is the only political thing I’m going to say. The right-wing people are so far right, and the left-wing people are so far left. If the left people do this, the right people say screw that. There’s no middle ground.
We texted a few weeks ago and just kinda shouted each other out. [We] said what’s up and told each other we appreciate our music and put our stuff aside. [It] was like, ‘Look, we’re just two testosterone-raged a**hole men that just barked back at each other on the internet like we’re bada**es or something.’
So that was cool, and I don’t have any problem with him.”
In other news, Adcock just extended his successful headlining tour, The Day I Hang It Up, into 2027 with an additional 14 dates in April and May alongside opener Blake Whiten.
A full list of dates can be found below, with the new ones highlighted in bold.
The Day I Hang It Up 2026-2027 Tour Dates
Oct. 15 Atrium Health Amphitheater || Macon, GA
Oct. 16 Coca-Cola Amphitheater || Birmingham, AL
Oct. 17 First Security Amphitheater || Little Rock, AR
Oct. 22 Fishers Event Center || Fishers, IN
Oct. 23 Knoxville Civic Coliseum || Knoxville, TN
Oct. 24 Koka Booth Amphitheatre || Cary, NC
Oct. 29 Bojangles Coliseum || Charlotte, NC
Oct. 30 Enmarket Arena || Savannah, GA
Oct. 31 Hertz Arena || Estero, FL
Nov. 6 MGM Music Hall at Fenway || Boston, MA
Nov. 7 Santander Arena || Reading, PA
Nov. 13 Masonic Temple Theatre || Detroit, MI
Nov. 14 Van Andel Arena || Grand Rapids, MI
Dec. 10 The Theater at Virgin Hotels Las Vegas || Las Vegas, NV
March 6 Meatstock Gippsland || Melbourne, Australia
March 13 Meatstock Toowoomba || Toowoomba, Australia
April 1 Gatton Park || Lexington, KY
April 2 The Factory || St. Louis, MO
April 3 The Factory || St. Louis, MO
April 10 SJB Pavilion || Oxford, MS
April 29 Salem Civic Center || Salem, VA
May 1 The St. Augustine Amphitheatre || St. Augustine, FL
May 7 The Zoo Amphitheatre || Oklahoma City, OK
May 8 White Oak Music Hall || Houston, TX
May 13 Virginia Credit Union LIVE! || Richmond, VA
May 14 Hard Rock Live at Etess Arena || Atlantic City, NJ
May 15 Pier Six Pavilion || Baltimore, MD
May 27 Floores Country Store || Helotes, TX
May 28 Floores Country Store || Helotes, TX
