Cody Jinks "Must Be The Whiskey" from the album "Lifers" Written by Cody Jinks and Josh Morningstar.
Performed by:
Vocals: Cody Jinks
Bass: Joshua Thompson
Lead Guitar: Chris Claridy
Steel: Austin “Hot Rod” Tripp
Drums: David Colvin
Acoustic Guitar: Leroy Powell
Cello: Carole Rabinowitz
Keys: Drew Harakal
Background Vocals: Joshua Thompson
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(Fort Worth, TX) Acclaimed singer and songwriter Cody Jinks will issue his debut release under his new record deal with Rounder Records, Lifers, on July 27. The album's first single, "Must Be the Whiskey," was released on June 15. As Rolling Stone notes, "Cody Jinks is never one for pretense, but he cuts to the quick on [the] moody slow-burner [that is his] no-nonsense new single."
He leads a back-to-basics, populist outlaw musical movement thanks in good part to relentless road work and killer shows, and has already sold a quarter million of his previous independently-released albums. Jinks continues to perform strings of shows that sell out so quickly that he frequently has to add second nights at venues across the nation, including Nashville's famed Ryman Auditorium. His upcoming July 15 show in Lexington, KY recently sold out in just a few minutes.
"We go all over the United States, man, and people tell us, 'Thank you,'" says Jinks of his touring with his band, cheekily named The Tone Deaf Hippies. "I hear 'thank you' more than I hear anything else. There's no bullshit in our show. There's no dancing, there's no sparkle-bottom jeans. We get out there and we rip people's faces off."
Born in Haltom City, TX, raised in nearby Fort Worth, and now based out of Denton, TX, Jinks recalls his first musical memory as hearing Merle Haggard at age three. "He's been the number one influence ever since," he says. Schooled by his father in such American musical legends as Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings and others, and then on guitar in his teens, Jinks first started honing his own outsider style and "steel-edged songs," as the Nashville Tennessean describes them, in Texas honky-tonks.
His dedicated fans are known as #Flockers for how they leap at the chance to enjoy his performances. As Rolling Stone notes, "If there's a common thread between members of his audience, he figures it has something to do with their struggles to get by and the nagging suspicion that they're seen as marginal, undesirable people by the rest of the world. A Cody Jinks show offers solidarity."
"Bikers, suits, hippies, cowboys - all of those people are at our shows any given night," he says. "Men, women, old, young - just working-class people. That's what I came from. That's where all of us came from: people that worked hard, people that have had to work hard."
As D magazine notes, "Jinks is the definition of a stubborn country traditionalist [with] rich, vintage-inspired instrumentation - think syrupy steel guitars and wailing fiddles." The Houston Press observes how "His voice sounds like that of a man with stories to tell and opinions to share." And "Jinks' lyrics are full of heart, and mighty relatable," says the Omaha World-Herald. "Jinks sings with seemingly clear-eyed honesty," says Rolling Stone of his current single, "Must Be the Whiskey."
Lifers celebrates the hard-working Americans that Jinks embraces as kindred souls on its title track. And he shares their diligence to giving one's all at what you do. He told Fort Worth Weekly a few years back, "t's kind of a DIY punk-rock mentality: Just get in the van [now a bus] and go."
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