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Gavin Adcock is opening up about his friendship with Morgan Wallen, with the duo spending much of the summer out on the road together as part of Wallen's Still the Problem Tour.
With Adcock signed to Wallen's Sticks Management, it's perhaps unsurprising that they've grown so close. In a new interview, Adcock explains why he admires the Sneedville megastar, as well as highlighting how Wallen how changed over the years.
During an appearance on the Tomi Lahren is Fearless podcast, Adcock playfully shares that, although there was a time when Wallen was far wilder than him, he now feels like Wallen has settled down in comparison, “Morgan's a little more quiet than me nowadays. At some point, he was more rambunctious and wild and outspoken”.
He goes on to pay tribute to how Wallen has been able to skilfully navigate and often even capitalise on his controversies and apparent crises, “And he's just always took every negative situation that he's ever had in his career in life and done his best to turn it into a positive situation, or benefit off of that, and I try to take the same approach. It's probably the biggest thing I've ever taken away from his career”.
Adcock's comments about Wallen not necessarily being as ‘wild’ as he once was echoes what Wallen said during a 2025 chat with Theo Von. He joked that he was very similar to Adcock when he was younger - there just weren't as many cameras around.
In that interview, Wallen fondly mused, “[Gavin Adcock's] a wild man...I love that guy, man. He's definitely outlandish...he's entertaining and he's got a good voice. His music seems like it just keeps getting better too, so I'm happy for him, man”.
Wallen recalled how off-the-rails his lifestyle was in his younger days, “The only regiment then was sleep til 4, start drinking at 5, you know what I mean? Like that's what it was then, and we gon' be good”, adding, “Yeah, I think back in the day, if I had a camera on me like Adcock does now, they would be probably be saying some similar stuff about me. But he's a little more bold with it, I guess, than I was”.
Adcock admits that, because of his affiliation with Wallen, writers often think they can pitch him songs that were clearly originally intended for the ‘Last Night’ hitmaker, “I'll get sent songs that...were meant for Morgan, that Morgan didn't take. They'll send them to me and I'll be like, no, I'm not trying to sound like Morgan Wallen”. Although Adcock did end up recording one song that was initially on-hold for Wallen, ‘Dreamer’, as part of his latest studio album, The Day I Hang It Up.
The ‘Last One To Know’ singer-songwriter continues, “Because there's so many Morgan duplicates in this town that you gotta find your own lane. But it's been a blessing to play for 100,000 people every weekend that I stepped down on stage with him and go up there with him during ‘Up Down’. And it's been a real good time”.
With Adcock releasing a brand new album, The Day I Hang It Up, and continuing to cement himself as one of the hottest new acts in country music, it remains to be seen whether he'll link up with Wallen on tour again next year. You can't help but feel that, at the rate at which Adcock's stock is rising, it won't be long before he's too big to be an opener - even for the biggest artist in the genre.
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