Over the month of November, singer-songwriters Benjamin Tod and Gavin Adcock have engaged in a snippy back-and-forth, very much in the spirit of Gavin’s other spats with the likes of Zach Bryan, Beyonce, Charley Crockett, and Nickelback’s sound guy at a music festival.
With no end in sight, we’ve compiled a comprehensive timeline of the pair’s aggressive comebacks since the fight first ignited at the top of the month.
November 4th — Benjamin Tod’s original remarks
Benjamin Tod appeared on the Whiskey Riff podcast Whiskey Riff Riff and spoke about how many traditional/roots artists spend years grinding in small venues. His comments were paraphrased widely as describing artists who “eat s–t at dive bars … for a pitcher of beer and $75 for playing three hours for years.”
November 9th — Gavin Adcock responds publicly
Gavin Adcock commented under a clip of the interview, “If you’ve played for $75 for years and years you need a new job.”
November 24th — Benjamin Tod fires back in a public video
In a direct response to Adcock’s comment, Tod posted a video chastising Adcock directly:
“The reason why it’s so wonderful is that it’s completely emblematic of why people like Gavin Adcock cannot represent country music. You have no idea how many people you shit on with this comment. You know how many years Willie Nelson burned up the road? Don’t even get me started on The Louvin Brothers, Waylon, Johnny…”
“95% of our industry, you just insulted, because it shows this clear divide where you have no f*ing concept of the relationship between talent and success, and the inequalities that exist throughout this industry that lend to someone like you getting power easily.”**
“Second, it shows that you are an entitled little brat. You have no concept of hard work. You have no concept of what it took for the majority of us to get here.”
“It is absolutely pathetic in my eyes. You insulted everyone and you openly make the case that you don’t appreciate or understand the hard work that artists like me … who worked in that capacity for years and years and years to get where they are because you got it handed to you…”
“You are a lazy, stupid, shiftless motherfucker … That cross on your hand ain’t gonna save you from selling your soul to the devil to get where you are. You don’t represent Christians, and you don’t represent country music. “I’ll see you at Stagecoach, motherf–ker.”
November 27th — Gavin & Benjamin Exchange Shots In Comments Section
Earlier today, (on Thanksgiving Day), Whiskey Riff re-shared Zach Bryan’s latest lambasting of Zach Bryan, in which he remarked, “If all your songs sound the same. You either should be open to writing with other people or you’ve been using AI to write your lyrics the