Cody Jinks Announces 2025 Tour, Lefty Frizzell Tribute Album
Whoa! Lots of news emanating from the Cody Jinks camp, and it’s all of a good nature.
Since 2020, Cody Jinks has been promising that he’s had a Lefty Frizzell tribute album in the can, but was just waiting for the right time to release it. As Saving Country Music first reported in September, apparently that right time is now, or at least it will be this Friday, December 6th, when Cody Jinks Sings Lefty Frizzell officially arrives.
Previously, Jinks had said the 9-song album was produced by his Tondeaf Hippies bass player Joshua Thompson, and mixed by Paul Cauthen. It’s also said to be super classic country. Cody Sings Lefty is now available for pre-order on CD, black vinyl, and “up in smoke” green vinyl.
Track List:
1. If You’ve Got the Money I’ve Got the Time
2. My Rough and Rowdy Ways
3. Saginaw, Michigan
4. That’s the Way Love Goes
5. Always Late (With Your Kisses)
6. She’s Gone, Gone, Gone
7. Long Black Veil
8. I Never Go Around Mirrors
9. Sick, Sober and Sorry
But that’s not all. We’re usually used to Cody Jinks announcing tour dates in onesies and twosies. But for 2025, he’s announced a full-blown tour with multiple dates, and with Tanner Usrey and Shane Smith & the Saints opening. This will be one hell of a party for 2025 that Cody’s dubbing the “Hippies and Cowboys Tour.”
“It’s a really divided time in our nation,” Jinks says. “But we’ve always been the type of band where we’ve wanted everybody. And so next year, it’s going to be a statement of, ‘Man, we’re just an American band.’ That’s what we are. We’re a honky-tonk band. We’re American music. You have country rock, rhythm and blues, all in one. We’re hippies, we’re cowboys—and we’re everything in between.”
Tickets will be available starting with a fan club presale on Tuesday, December 3. Additional presales will run throughout the week ahead of the general on-sale beginning on Friday, December 6 at 10AM local time at codyjinks.com.
2025 Cody Jinks Tour Dates:
March 14, 2025–New Orleans, LA–Mahalia Jackson Theatre of Performing Arts
May 29, 2025–Columbia, MO–9th Street*
May 30, 2025–Franklin, TN–FirstBank Amphitheater*
June 26, 2025–Nampa, ID–Ford Idaho Center Amphitheater*
June 27, 2025–Idaho Falls, ID–Mountain America Center*
June 28, 2025–Casper, WY–Ford Wyoming Center*
July 10, 2025–Wheatland, CA–Hard Rock Live*
July 11, 2025–Stateline, NV–Lake Tahoe Outdoor Arena at Harveys*
July 12, 2025–Berkeley, CA–Greek Theatre UC Berkeley*
July 17, 2025–Kent, WA–accesso ShoWare Center*
July 19, 2025–Airway Heights, WA–Northern Quest Amphitheater*
July 26, 2025–Morrison, CO–Red Rocks Amphitheatre
August 7, 2025–Asbury Park, NJ–Stone Pony Summer Stage#
August 8, 2025–Philadelphia, PA– The Met Philadelphia presented by Highmark#
August 9, 2025–Baltimore, MD–Pier Six Pavilion#
August 11, 2025–Virginia Beach, VA–The Dome#
August 13, 2025–New York, NY–The Rooftop at Pier 17#
August 15, 2025–Bridgeport, CT–Hartford HealthCare Amphitheater*
August 16, 2025–Boston, MA–Leader Bank Pavilion*
August 17, 2025–Syracuse, NY–Empower Federal Credit Union Amphitheater at Lakeview*
September 18, 2025–Des Moines, IA–Lauridsen Amphitheater at Water Works Park*
September 19, 2025–Indianapolis, IN–Everwise Amphitheater at White River State Park*
September 20, 2025–Youngstown, OH–Youngstown Foundation Amphitheatre*
*with Tanner Usrey
#with Shane Smith & The Saints
December 2, 2024 @ 7:29 pm
That’s great! I tried to look up who wrote “That’s the Way Love Goes”, and Janet Jackson showed up. Fine, love Janet. Searched “That’s the Way Love Goes Country” and Merle Haggard and Johnny Rodriquez showed up. Great, but bad robot. Give me Lefty, no matter what Billboard says ugh.
Don’t let our country music greats be erased, or something.
December 3, 2024 @ 10:15 am
It was written by Lefty and Whitey Shafer.
December 5, 2024 @ 6:59 am
That’s how it goes.
December 2, 2024 @ 8:36 pm
This is cool. FirstBank Amphitheater in Franklin is an awesome venue. Might have to go to that one.
December 3, 2024 @ 7:29 pm
That is an awesome venue. I might have to go as well. Never seen a whole show of his, just an in-store performance at the old Grimey’s Records above the Basement.
December 4, 2024 @ 3:14 pm
I hate the song Hippies and Cowboy’s and a number of his other bigger songs which is what turned me off from him but the dude has done covers of straight up good country songs. He was one of the few artists who covered ‘Nothing’s News’ by Clint Black which is my fav Clint Black song and also my wifi password.
December 4, 2024 @ 3:14 pm
I’ve been to a number of in-store performances at the new Grimey’s location. Such a cool place.
December 3, 2024 @ 2:18 am
I wish he would come to the UK. Lots of country fans over here. Tyler Childers just sold out the 20,000 O2 arena.
December 3, 2024 @ 7:14 am
Looking forward to the album. He already passed my way earlier in the year, but passed due to ticket prices, and since I’ve already seen him and Whitey. Maybe next time.
December 3, 2024 @ 10:44 am
That Lefty tribute tracklist is perfect.
December 3, 2024 @ 11:05 am
Yeah, JB, “bad (search) robot” ! I searched the song “Dust My Broom” and SEARCH stalled at versions by blues rockers of the Caucasian persuasion. (I’m that persuasion, fwiw)
Open-hearted singing you want to hear? I present “Mom and Dad’s Waltz” Lefty Frizzell
December 3, 2024 @ 11:26 am
Dust my Broom, the most famous version I’m aware of from a legit black blues artist is of course the late Elmore James.
December 3, 2024 @ 4:36 pm
Yeah the Elmore James version is the most famous one that I am aware of from the blues artists. It’s that slide guitar sound that influenced Duane Allman
December 3, 2024 @ 3:38 pm
Leonard Cohen nicked the melody for his “Bird on a Wire”.
December 3, 2024 @ 11:35 am
Im kind of skeptical he can pull off a lefty album but we will see.
December 4, 2024 @ 1:51 pm
you say you’re skeptical he can pull of a lefty album
don’t worry, this guy’s ego is dragging him around like a parachute on the ground
hey, no problem, anybody can get up and follow Lefty on the stage
December 3, 2024 @ 7:42 pm
Every “Tribute Album” is a confession.
Those who actually have something to contribute have no problem lighting the way.
Opposed to those who must ‘tribute” another or else sing in their own darkness.
At law it’s called ‘blackening the reputation’ of a deceased person.
In the parlance of musical parasites, it’s called a “Tribute Album.”
Whereby a person who knows that Lefty can’t run and can’t say no
is allowed to say “Hey Lefty, listen to how my tribute make you sound great”
December 4, 2024 @ 6:41 pm
IMO this is additional proof that Cody is an outlaw. Who is even covering Lefty? No one despite everyone being indebted to Lefty for his vocal style whether they know it or not. Merle Haggard once said that Lefty’s impact on country music isn’t even measurable. All of country music’s all-time greatest vocalists all claim Lefty as a major influence. I actually listen to Lefty way more than Hank Williams (Still unbelievably great) and believe if Lefty died young like Hank he would be more well known.
I heard on Cody’s podcast with Jason Eady and Courtney Patton and they were talking about this album. Way back in 2020. Wish there were more songs especially “How Far Down Can I Go” which I think Cody would do a great cover of.
December 5, 2024 @ 6:58 am
It’s always great when poor Lefty gets a little recognition.
I just wish that the tribute albums would’ve focused on the lesser known songs. Whenever the greats are covered, it’s Swinging Doors, Cold, Cold Heart, If You’ve Got the Money, Miss the Mississippi and You, I Still Miss Someone and Crazy for the tenthhundreth time.
The legendary artists got so much, much more to offer. The “hits” are seldom their best works.