Cody Jinks
{{Short description|American singer-songwriter}}
{{Infobox musical artist
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| birth_name = Meredith Cody Jinks
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1980|08|18}}
| occupation = {{flatlist|
- Singer
- songwriter
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| origin = Haltom City, Texas, U.S.
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| years_active = 1998–present
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- Cody Jinks
- Late August Records
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- Unchecked Aggression
- The Tone Deaf Hippies
- Caned by Nod
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| website = {{URL|http://codyjinks.com/}}
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Meredith Cody Jinks{{cite web |url=https://kokefm.com/2020/06/12/cody-jinks-shares-powerful-story-of-division-and-unity-on-social-media/ |title=Cody Jinks Shares Powerful Story of Divising and Unity on Social Media |work=KOKE FM |date= January 25, 2012 |first= Haven|last=Medrano}} (born August 18, 1980) is an American outlaw country music singer and songwriter.{{cite web |url=https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/arts-culture/2016/09/08/167380/live-in-studio-cody-jinks/ |title=Live In Studio: Cody Jinks |date=September 8, 2016 |work=Houston Public Media |first=Troy |last=Schulze}} His breakout 2016 album, I'm Not the Devil, reached No. 4 on the Billboard Country Albums chart, while a number of other albums such as Lifers, After the Fire, and The Wanting reached No. 2 on the same chart.
Early life
Cody Jinks is a native of Haltom City, near Fort Worth, Texas, United States,{{cite web |url=http://www.fwweekly.com/2012/01/25/cody-jinks-hits-30/ |title=Cody Jinks Hits 30 |work=Fort Worth Weekly |date= January 25, 2012 |first= Steve|last=Steward}} and attended Haltom High School. He started learning to play a few country music riffs on the guitar from his father when he was 16, but soon formed a heavy metal band.{{cite news |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151205203301/http://lubbockonline.com/go/music/2015-05-28/cody-jinks-touring-suport-adobe-sessions-album |archive-date=December 5, 2015 |url=http://lubbockonline.com/go/music/2015-05-28/cody-jinks-touring-suport-adobe-sessions-album |title=Cody Jinks touring in {{as written|sup|ort [sic]}} of "Adobe Sessions" album |first=Eric |last=May 28, 2015 |work=Lubbock Online }}
Music career
Jinks started out as the lead singer of a thrash metal band from Fort Worth named Unchecked Aggression, initially named Silas, that was active from 1998 to 2003. He also played the lead guitar; the other band members were Gary Burkham on bass who left in 2000 and was replaced by Chris Lewis,{{cite web |url=http://sbs666.tripod.com/uncheckedaggressionmainpage.htm |title=Unchecked Aggression|website=sbs666.tripod.com}} Anthony Walker on drums, and Ben Heffley on guitar.{{cite web |url=http://www.spirit-of-metal.com/groupe-groupe-Unchecked_Aggression-l-en.html |title=Unchecked Aggression |work=Spirit of Metal }} They were influenced by Metallica and Pantera.{{cite magazine |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-country/how-cody-jinks-turned-discontent-and-thrash-metal-into-country-success-112864/ |title=How Cody Jinks Turned Discontent and Thrash Metal into Country Success|first=Jon |last= Freeman |magazine=Rolling Stone |date=November 10, 2016 }} An album, The Massacre Begins was released in 2002.{{cite web |url= http://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Unchecked_Aggression/1743 |title=Unchecked Aggression |work=The Metal Archive}}{{cite magazine |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/country/lists/10-new-country-artists-you-need-to-know-september-2016-w438056/cody-jinks-w438091 |title=10 New Country Artists You Need to Know: September 2016 |magazine=Rolling Stone }} Songs they recorded included "Hell Razor" and "Kill Me Again". The band however broke up after a trip to Los Angeles, and Jinks took a year off from music. In around 2005, he started playing country music, the music he grew up with.{{cite web |url=http://thedailycountry.com/give-a-listen/category/cody%20jinks |title=Give A Listen: Cody Jinks|date=April 9, 2015 |work=The Daily Country }}{{cite web |url=http://www.wideopencountry.com/the-new-texas-cody-jinks/|title=The New Texas: Cody Jinks |first= Matt |last= Alpert |work=Wide Open Country |date=28 January 2016}}
Jinks is backed by The Tone Deaf Hippies.{{cite web |url=http://roughneckbeardcompany.com/blog/bearded-brothers-honkytonk-proud-beard-cody-jinks/ |title=Bearded Brothers: Honkytonk Proud, the Beard of Cody Jinks |work=Roughneck Beard Company }} He began to release albums in the country genre in 2008.{{cite web |url=https://www.fwweekly.com/2012/01/25/cody-jinks-hits-30/ |title=Cody Jinks Hits 30 |first=Steve |last=Steward |date= January 25, 2012 | work=Fort Worth Weekly}} An album titled 30 was released in 2012.{{cite web |url=http://www.outlawmagazine.com/2013/02/05/cody-jinks-tone-deaf-hippies-live-at-thirsty-armadillo-saloon/ |title=Cody Jinks & Tone Deaf Hippies:Thirsty Armadillo |work=Outlaw Magazine |date=February 5, 2013 |access-date=September 10, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160911155821/http://www.outlawmagazine.com/2013/02/05/cody-jinks-tone-deaf-hippies-live-at-thirsty-armadillo-saloon/ |archive-date=September 11, 2016 |url-status=dead }} He began to develop his own sound in an EP, Blacksheep, which was released in 2013.{{cite web |url=https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/blacksheep-ep/id663979735 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150415075941/https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/blacksheep-ep/id663979735 |url-status=dead |archive-date=April 15, 2015 |title=Blacksheep |work=iTunes}}
=2015: ''Adobe Sessions''=
The album was recorded at the Sonic Ranch in Tornillo, Texas, and the album title was named after a small adobe room they recorded the album in. It was released in January 2015 and charted in Billboard's regional Heatseekers charts – No.2 on Heatseekers South Central and No. 8 on Heatseekers Mountain.{{cite magazine |url= http://www.billboard.com/biz/charts/2015-01-24/heatseekers-south-central |title=Heatseekers - South Central |date = January 24, 2015 |magazine=Billboard }}{{cite magazine |url= http://www.billboard.com/biz/charts/2016-05-14/heatseekers-mountain |title=Heatseekers - Mountain |date = May 14, 2016 |magazine=Billboard }} Jinks toured in support of Adobe Sessions as an opener for Sturgill Simpson in 2015.{{cite web | url=http://www.omaha.com/go/sturgill-simpson-plays-some-real-country-music/article_5d02950c-2b83-11e5-bda7-c3a1255f8a4a.html | title=Sturgill Simpson plays some real country music | publisher=Omaha World-Herald | date=July 16, 2015 | access-date=April 19, 2017}}
=2016: ''I'm Not the Devil''=
I'm Not the Devil was released on August 12, 2016.{{cite magazine |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/hear-cody-jinks-profess-im-not-the-devil-in-dark-new-ballad-20160621 |title=Hear Cody Jinks Declare 'I'm Not the Devil' in Dark New Ballad |first=Joseph|last= Hudak|date=June 21, 2016 |magazine=Rolling Stone }} The album was recorded at the Sonic Ranch in Tornillo, Texas.{{cite magazine |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/country/news/see-cody-jinks-live-brooding-im-not-the-devil-w435801 |title=See Cody Jinks' Brooding Live Performance of 'I'm Not the Devil' | first=Joseph|last= Hudak|date=August 23, 2016 |magazine=Rolling Stone}} It includes a cover of Merle Haggard's "The Way I Am".{{cite magazine |url=http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/country/7453623/cody-jinks-merle-haggard-cover-listen |title=Cody Jinks' Covers Merle Haggard's 'The Way I Am': Listen|date=July 28, 2016 |first= Elias|last= Leight |magazine=Billboard }} The title track was written with his best friend Ward Davis; the album was almost finished and the album title had already been decided, but it was retitled with the name of the song they wrote. The album debuted at No. 4 on the Top Country Albums chart, selling 11,300 copies in the first week.{{cite news |url=http://roughstock.com/news/2016/08/40756-country-albums-sales-chart-august-22-2016 |title=Country Albums Sales Chart: August 22, 2016 |first= Matt |last= Bjorke |date= August 21, 2016 |work=Roughstock}} Jinks supported I'm Not the Devil with a co-headlining tour with Whitey Morgan and the 78's in August, September, and October. The album was rated one of the best country albums of 2016 by Rolling Stone.{{cite magazine |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-country-lists/40-best-country-albums-of-2016-117269/ |title=40 Best Country Albums of 2016 |magazine=Rolling Stone |date=December 7, 2016 }}
=2017=
Jinks released a cover of Pink Floyd's hit song "Wish You Were Here" in January 2017.{{cite web | url=https://www.rollingstone.com/country/videos/hear-cody-jinks-cover-of-pink-floyds-wish-you-were-here-w462419 | title=Hear Cody Jinks' Swirling Cover of Pink Floyd's 'Wish You Were Here' | publisher=Rolling Stone | date=January 23, 2017 | access-date=April 19, 2017}} He also re-released a remixed and remastered version of his 2010 album Less Wise, as Less Wise Modified 2017, with three bonus tracks included.{{cite web |url=http://103kkcn.com/cody-jinks-re-issues-an-album-from-2010/ |date=November 8, 2017|title=Cody Jinks Re-issues an album from 2010Trigger|work=Kickin Country 103.1 |first=Chuck |last=Baker}}
=2018: ''Lifers''=
Jinks released the album Lifers on July 27, 2018, via Rounder Records.{{cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-country/cody-jinks-details-new-album-lifers-629545/|title=Cody Jinks Details New Album 'Lifers' |first= Chris|last=Parton |date=June 4, 2018 |magazine=Rolling Stone }} It was preceded by the lead single "Must Be the Whiskey", which was released on June 15, 2018.
=2019: ''After the Fire and The Wanting''=
On October 11, 2019, Jinks released the album After the Fire. The album was independently produced and released by his own label, Late August Records, marking a departure from Rounder Records, with whom he produced 2018's Lifers.{{cite magazine |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-country/cody-jinks-after-the-fire-new-album-870508/ |title=Cody Jinks Announces New Album 'After the Fire'|first= Joseph|last= Hudak |magazine=Rolling Stone|date= August 12, 2019 }} The album was preceded by two singles, "Ain't a Train" and "Think Like You Think". Jinks also promoted the song "William and Wanda", which was written about his late grandparents. For the week of October 26, 2019, the album was No. 2 on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart.{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.billboard.com/charts/country-albums|title=Country Music: Top Country Albums Chart|magazine=Billboard|access-date=December 5, 2019}}
One week later, October 18, 2019, Jinks released a second album, The Wanting.{{cite web |url=https://theboot.com/cody-jinks-after-the-fire-the-wanting/ |title= Actually, Cody Jinks Is Releasing Two Albums This Fall |date=September 17, 2019 |work=The Boot |first=Bobby |last=Moore}} Similar to After the Fire, the album was independently produced. It was preceded by two singles, "Same Kind of Crazy as Me" and "Which One I Feed".
On October 24, 2019, both albums held the No. 1 and 2 spots for Top Albums on iTunes and Apple Music.{{Cite web|url=https://www.facebook.com/CodyJinksMusic/|title=Cody Jinks|website=Facebook.com|access-date=December 5, 2019}}
Discography
= Studio albums =
= Live albums =
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2018
! scope="row"| "Must Be the Whiskey" | | | rowspan="2" |Lifers |
2019
! scope="row"| "Somewhere Between I Love You and I'm Leavin'" | |
2020
! scope="row"| "Watch the World Die" | | | Watch the World Die |
2021
! scope="row"| "Hurt You" | | | Mercy |
2022
! scope="row"| "Loud and Heavy" | | | Adobe Sessions |
2024
! scope="row"| "Outlaws and Mustangs"{{cite web|url=https://assets.countryaircheck.com/public/87dc9361-4c9b-4ea1-a2e3243598217264/Issue-892-January-16-2024.pdf|format=PDF|title=Country Aircheck : Issue 892|date=January 16, 2024|website=Assets.countryaricheck.com|access-date=August 18, 2024}} | | | Change the Game |
References
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