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Jinks, Wetzel, The Castellows, Springsteen present new music

Friday, December 6, 2024 – Cody Jinks released his latest project, "Cody Jinks Sings Lefty Frizzell," a tribute album to the late honky-tonk legend, Lefty Frizzell. The disc includes covers of "If You've Got The Money I've Got The Time," "I Never Go Round Mirrors" and "Always Late (With Your Kisses)." Jinks said, "The first song my dad taught me to play on guitar was Lefty's, 'The Long Black Veil.' My favorite country singer/songwriter Merle Haggard was a Lefty fan. If you trace my country music lineage, you can hear a little Lefty in some of my stuff.

Koe Wetzel, whose career has been on the upswing, visits holiday music again with "Wetzel's Wonderland: Chapter 2." This is the follow-up to last year's edition. The new release features fresh renditions of holiday staples, including a spoken-word "'Twas The Night Before Christmas" intro plus "Run Run Rudolph," "Merry Christmas Baby" and "Silver Bells," blending nostalgia with a modern edge.

Georgia sister trio The Castellows are out with a three-song EP, "Alabama Stone." The songs are "Place to Leave," "Girl That Boy" and the title track. The group consists of Eleanor, Lily, and Powell Balkcom, who released an EP, "A Little Goes a Long Way," in February.

Columbia Records/Sony Music Nashville artist-songwriter Alana Springsteen delivered and unedited audio on four-track EP, "Alana Springsteen: Live from NPR's Tiny Desk." Recorded live during her late summer session on NPR Music's Tiny Desk Concert series at the NPR Music headquarters, "ghost in my guitar," recorded with Chris Stapleton, the title track of her three-part debut album, "TWENTY SOMETHING." She also dropped an unreleased track "feels good," plus a stripped-down solo version of her "Hot Honey" collaboration with DJ/producer Tiesto.

Warner Music Nashville's Braxton Keith released his major label debut EP, "Blue." The EP from the San Antonio-area native has six songs.

Country-rock veterans Pure Prairie League, a seminal outfit during the '70s and '80s movement that brought mainstream success to the country-rock and Southern Rock genres, returns with "Back on Track," the group's first studio album in nearly two decades. "Back on Track," out today on Pure Prairie League Records, contains 14 songs. The band features founding member John David Call on pedal steel guitar; Scott Thompson on drums, percussion, and vocals; Randy Harper on keyboards and vocals; Jeffrey Zona on guitars and vocals; and Jared Camic on bass and vocals.


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CD review - The Wanting 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. ...
CD review - After the Fire Jewelers are trained to recognize flaws in personal ornaments, but even one of these experts would find no faults in this Cody Jinks' recorded work. It's a nearly perfect collection comprised of songs you'll want to listen to again and again. "Yesterday Again," for example, speaks about wanting to go back in time to re-experience better romantic days. It's the sort of lyric and melody (speaking of traveling backwards in a time machine), one can easily imagine Kris ...


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