

Gavin Adcock is in his prolific era. The Day I Hang It Up is the third studio album in three years from the football player turned singer-songwriter, and it clocks in at a whopping 25 tracks. On this LP, produced by Jay Rodgers, Adcock asserts that he’s here to stay and sums up his mission on the title track, singing, “The day I hang it up is the day I’m ridin’ out.” That kind of brassy bravado permeates the collection, like on “Lowball Me,” a grungy heartache rocker on which Adcock brags about getting dumped and “selling off her shit at pennies on the dollar.” On the playful “Workin’ Man,” Adcock swats at “clean-shaved” yuppies and imagines what life would be like as a manual laborer who’s too tough for cream in his coffee. Other standouts on the album include the Treaty Oak Revival collaboration “Us Again,” an alt-tinged situationship anthem that makes the most of the Texas country rock band’s chops, and early release “Cheap Thrills,” a duet with rising star Hudson Westbrook with crunchy dive-bar guitar and a slick, soulful vocal from Westbrook.