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cody jinks the wanting

11/14/2019

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Cody Jinks (from the album The Wanting available on Late August Records) (by Bryant Liggett)
Ambiguity doesn’t work for Country music. It is a genre that calls for a straight ahead narrative, blue collar tales from the working class, and crying in your beer tunes with a load of references to all the vices making you cry in said beer. Texas singer-songwriter Cody Jinks nails the narrative on The Wanting, his second record release in as many weeks, delivering a dozen songs conveying emotions we have all shared. The mission statement ‘I’m living a country song’ was uttered for a record like this. The title track kicks things off and features a white-hot fiddle on a mid-tempo, radio friendly Country Rocker, The Wanting following with a sharp dose of self-reflective reality on “Some Kind of Crazy”, the narrator proudly boasting ‘I don’t go to church on Sunday, I don’t go to work on Monday; I sleep until I wake up, whiskey in my coffee cup’. It cements the concept that you are judged by the company you keep, and seeking out that company as ‘everybody knows where I stand, in all my friends I see the same crazy as me’.
Cody Jinks is in a reminiscent of gentler times on the soft weeper “A Bite of Something Sweet”, calling for a day like they used to be in the line ‘I need to see all my old friends, so we can start again. I need a bite of something sweet’.
“Ramble” is an escape anthem for downtrodden times, when the hand life deals calls pays nothing but movement. Cody Jinks sings that he’s ‘been forgiven for my sins, lord knows I ain’t through sinning yet’ in “The Raven and the Dove,” a damned if you do, damned if you don’t tune with a big, sing-along chorus perfect to wrap The Wanting in an outlaw knot.  (by Bryant Liggett)
 
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