Jinks hopes to "Change the Game"
Junks released a new song, "Sober Thing," on Friday.
"I wrote 'Sober Thing' right after we finished the 'Mercy' album. I was giving up a 20-plus year affair with whiskey and every word of that song is true. I don't remember writing some of my biggest songs, but I damn sure remember writing that one."
Produced by Ryan Hewitt (Red Hot Chili Peppers, ZZ Top) and Jinks' longtime bassist, Joshua Thompson, "Change The Game" contains 12 tracks and his 11th studio release.
"This is the most open and honest record I've ever recorded, I laid everything out," he said.
Recorded mainly at MOXE outside of Nashville, "Change The Game" features Jinks (vocals, acoustic guitar) alongside Chris Claridy (acoustic guitar, electric guitar), David Colvin (drums, percussion), Drew Harakal (B3, piano, acoustic guitar, electric guitar), Jake Lentner (acoustic guitar, electric guitar), Joshua Thompson (bass) and Austin "Hotrod" Tripp (pedal steel, Dobro).
The album also features a new version of Faith No More's "Take This Bottle," featuring special guest Pearl Aday, as well as lead single, "Outlaws & Mustangs," which debuted earlier this fall. Aday is the daughter of Meat Loaf.
The track list is:
1. Sober Thing
2. Outlaws and Mustangs
3. I Can't Complain
4. Take This Bottle feat. Pearl Aday
5. Deceiver's Blues
6. A Few More Ghosts
7. Change The Game
8. I Would
9. The Working Man
10. Wasted
11. Always Running
12. What You Love
Jinks will tour through 2024 including headline stops plus co-headline dates with Turnpike Troubadours. He will also join Luke Combs as part of his "Growin' Up and Gettin' Old" stadium tour starting next spring.
More news for Cody Jinks
- 10/10/25: Jinks finds himself a "Lonely Man"
- 06/27/25: Jinks considers "The Others"
- 05/30/25: Jinks is "Better Than the Bottle"
- 05/02/25: Jinks has it "In My Blood" for July
- 04/04/25: Jinks is "Snakebit"
- 03/14/25: Jinks will "Put the Whiskey Down"
- 12/06/24: Jinks, Wetzel, The Castellows, Springsteen present new music
- 12/02/24: Jinks pays tribute to Frizzell; sets 2025 tour
CD reviews for Cody Jinks
Like all artists worthy the name, hard-living country outlaw Cody Jinks has matured as a singer-songwriter and human. Some bad habits have been left behind, but Jinks hasn't abandoned what has brought him success.
While he tends to limit himself to writing of current circumstances — life on the road, pursuing music and changing behavior — he does so very well. Featuring fellow road warriors Blackberry Smoke, "In My Blood" lays it out:
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Cody Jinks stands defiantly among the generation that grew up with country music, but chose a louder, more aggressive outlet for their creative expressions. As a teenager, the native Texan learned country licks from his father, but channeled his high school angst and anger through the lens of heavy metal and thrash. When his band broke up in 2004, Jinks took a musical hiatus, emerging a year later as a more overtly country artist and releasing his debut solo album, "Collector's Item," in 2006. ...
It's challenging coming up with enough superlatives to describe Cody Jinks' "The Wanting." Yes, it surpasses the traditional country sonic test. Just listen to the twangy electric and steel guitar on "Bite Of Something Sweet." Although taking the latter advice literally, may lead to a diabetic coma, Jinks delivers its words with an enjoyably conversational tone, the song - both musically and lyrically - feels like something Merle Haggard might have written and sung. ...
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