Cody Jinks has always built his career on his own terms. Growing up near Fort Worth, Texas, he cut his teeth in bars and honky-tonks, where he learned to disrupt the status quo with an industrious, do-it-yourself approach. To date he’s released 10 full-length albums that regularly chart near the top of Billboard Country and Independent albums charts and have staying power, to the tune of 3.5 billion streams across platforms and eight songs certified Platinum or Gold. In recognition of his hard work, Jinks was named Music Row's 2023 Independent Artist of the Year - the second time he's received this honor.

EPSG:4326

Cody Jinks & Ward Davis: Same Kind of Crazy Acoustic Tour

Bismarck Event Center

Cody Jinks is an outlaw country music singer and songwriter. His 2016 album, I’m Not the Devil, reached #4 on the Billboard Country Albums chart, while his 2018 album, Lifers, reached #2 on the same chart. 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, Anthony Walker on drums, and Ben Heffley on guitar. They were influenced by Metallica and Pantera. An album, The Massacre Begins was released in 2002. 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.

Cody Jinks

Events

Past events

Nov 14, 2025

Cody Jinks & Ward Davis: Same Kind of Crazy Acoustic Tour · Bismarck Event Center

Jun 12, 2025

Cody Jinks · The Greek Theatre at UC Berkeley

About

Cody Jinks hasn't added a bio