Country singer Gavin Adcock arrested for reckless driving in Middle Tennessee

Rising country music crooner Gavin Adcock was cuffed and charged with reckless driving on Wednesday, May 21, at 11:15 p.m. local time in Wilson County, Tennessee.

According to People Magazine, the Georgia native, 26, also infringed on the state's open container laws. The Tennessee Highway Patrol took him into custody at the time, shortly after he got pulled over on Interstate 40 at mile marker 229.

As reported by The Tennessean, the singer now faces charges involving reckless driving and having an open container of alcohol in his vehicle. He has since posted the $1,000 bond and was released around 4:34 a.m. on May 22, the Wilson County Sheriff's Office has revealed.

Gavin Adcock promises to deliver a wild show the next time and smiles for his mugshot: Read more

Gavin Adcock is known for his tracks like Deep End, Ain’t No Cure, and A Cigarette. According to The New York Post, the singer, who spent about 5 hours behind bars, posed for his mugshot with a cheeky smile.

He is currently on the road for a tour, and his next show is set to take place tomorrow, May 24, at the Choctaw Casino in Grant, Oklahoma. Just before his arrest, he held shows at the Pinnacle in Nashville on May 17 and 18, the tickets to both of which sold out, according to the outlet.

"Last night was a s--- show, I don't plan for tonight to be anything different," Adcock said during his performance, per The Tennessean.

At the time of writing, Gavin Adcock has yet to address his arrest, but shortly before he was taken into custody, he took to Instagram to share a gym selfie:

“Back on my gym s–t sweatin out demons,” he captioned it.

As reported by Taste of Country, this isn't Gavin Adcock's first run-in with the law. In the past, he revealed on Twitter that he once went to jail over a “suspended license.”

“Went to jail one time because of a suspended license, sat in there for 10 hours and made friends with my cell mates,” the singer penned at the time, referencing the June 2023 incident.

Gavin Adcock, who recently surpassed 1 billion total streams on Spotify, delivered a "live show is as impassioned as it is beer and whiskey-soaked" for his last performance, The Tennessean reported. He was also described as a "beer-shotgunning, cowboy hat and leather vest-wearing performer."

During the performance at Music City, he delivered live renditions of tracks like Loose Strings, as he sang,

"Whiskey makes me honest, tequila makes you mean / Last thing I remember, you were cussing, my keys were in the weeds." He continued, "But I won't let you go, kill yourself, or get busted by the po-po / So I staggered home alone, still thinking about you / I'm through talking about all the things you can't change / It's hard moving on, I don't want you gone."

The Tennessean said of the performance:

"By the end of the evening, (Adcock) launched into another ballad, 'Sweetheart,' with a ripped-open shirt and pants torn at the crotch, crooning a bittersweet lament about being 'three sheets to the wind, holdin' in tears' while deep in a bottle of Jack Daniels."

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Gavin Adcock's 2024 major label debut album, Actin’ Up Again, broke records when it became the most-streamed country debut album of the year. It clocked in over 350 million streams.

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