Gavin Adcock Reveals How He and Charley Crockett Ended Their Feud: “This is the Only Political Thing I’m Gonna Say”

Gavin Adcock has opened up about how he and Charley Crockett buried the hatchet, after the two former nemeses shared photos via social media of them sharing a drink together.

During an appearance on Tomi Lahren is Fearless, Adcock explains where their beef originated from, “He came after me because I said I was gonna pass Beyoncé on the Country Albums charts when I let out my last album. Because I just I'm not a big fan of all these pop artists and stuff seeing that country music is cool, and they're like, ‘Oh, we're gonna go do country music’. So that irritated me at the time”.

He shares how he hopes them squashing their beef can inspire others to be more compassionate and open-minded, “[Crockett] mouthed off about it, and I'm not one to bite my tongue, so I mouthed off right back, and we bickered. And 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 gonna 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, and the right people do this. There's no middle ground”.

Adcock recalls how they messaged each other, with this paving the way for an in-person meeting to clear the air, “We texted a few weeks ago and just kind of shouted each other out and said what's up, and told each other we appreciate our music and put our stuff aside, and was like, look, we're just we're just two testosterone rigged old men that just barked back at each other on the internet like we're badasses or something. So that was cool, and I don't have any problem with him”.

It certainly feels like Adcock and Crockett's reconciliation is a signal for others in the modern country music world - and the music world in general - to perhaps lean into a spirit of forgiveness and empathy, rather than stoking the flames of animosity.

During the height of their sparring, things got quite nasty, with Crockett accusing Adcock of “selling” Jesus rather than following him when he released the faith-driven ‘Perfect Man’, before Adcock brought out a t-shirt with Crockett's face on it during his show with Morgan Wallen, with both artists flipping the bird at it.

After Tyler Hubbard and Brian Kelley reunited as Florida Georgia Line at CMA Fest this summer, and now Adcock and Crockett have become buddies, who knows, maybe this will open the door for two of modern country music's biggest enemies, Adcock and Zach Bryan, to finally patch things up. This one feels a little less likely, especially given how Adcock sent a few more shots Bryan's way ahead of his new album, The Day I Hang It Up. But hey, stranger things have happened...