Cody Jinks to Re-Issue Breakout Album “Less Wise” w/ Bonus Tracks
If you can’t get enough of Cody Jinks and you’re hankering for a tide over until his next studio record, consider getting yourself a copy of a re-issue of what many consider Cody’s breakout record, 2010’s Less Wise. Recorded at Blue Smoke Studios in Cody’s home of Ft. Worth, TX on what Cody calls a “nearly zero budget,” it will be re-released on November 17th in remixed and remastered form, with three bonus tracks.
In 2010, Cody Jinks was well under the radar. But he brought his Tonedeaf Hippies into the studio and recorded an album that shows incredible depth of songwriting early in his career, including multiple songs that are now staples of his live shows. Along with eight original tracks, Less Wise features “Last Call for the Blues” from Scott Copeland, and Nate Kipp’s “Love Letters and Cigarettes.” The re-issued version, being called Less Wise Modified 2017 will feature alternative takes of “Hippies & Cowboys” and “Somewhere in the Middle,” as well as a cover of Hank Williams Jr.’s “Whiskey Bent & Hell Bound.”
The title track “Less Wise” is a song Jinks wrote about his four best friends that he calls “The Less Wise Guys.” The original cover for the album was black with white lettering, and the re-issue will be white with black lettering. Jinks released it independently.
Cody Jinks recently shocked the country music community by selling out consecutive nights at the Ryman on Oct. 20th and 21st with Ward Davis and Sunny Sweeney supporting. The accomplishment speaks to the growing groundswell behind Jinks’ music.
Also announced today, he will be releasing his album Adobe Sessions on vinyl in December with a bonus track. More details soon.
Pre-Order Cody Jinks’ Less Wise Re-Issue
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TRACK LIST:
No Time- Wake Up Becki
- Hippies & Cowboys
- 65 Days in L.A.
- Somewhere in the Middle
- Been Around
- Last Call for the Blues
- Curse the Sky
- Loveletters and Cigarettes
- Less Wise
- Hippies & Cowboys (Alt Take)
- Somewhere in the Middle (Alt Take)
- Whiskey Bent and Hell Bound
November 3, 2017 @ 6:34 pm
I’ve checked SCM 100 times the last 24 hours looking for your response to the restrictions the CMA has placed on the media ahead of the awards.
This is cool though.
November 3, 2017 @ 8:02 pm
I may have something to say about it at some point, but the anger, groupthink, and echo chamber was going so full throat with this, I didn’t want my opinions misunderstood or misconstrued. Sometimes the best thing to do is to bite your tongue, which never comes easy for me.
November 6, 2017 @ 6:53 am
If I heard correctly, the CMAs rescinded their media restrictions so at least good news there.
November 6, 2017 @ 8:23 am
Wow! That is great news!
Mad respect for Brad Paisley, Maren Morris, and Will Hoge. They probably aren’t getting their NRA gift basket, but they got my respect!
November 3, 2017 @ 7:10 pm
Sampled this. Loved his version of ‘Whiskey Bent and Hell Bound’.
November 3, 2017 @ 7:13 pm
My favorite song is still ‘Alone’ though.
November 3, 2017 @ 7:12 pm
Should’ve put his killer version of Pink Floyds “Wish you were here” on there.
November 3, 2017 @ 7:36 pm
Sorry to get off topic Trig, but any chance your gonna review Yelawolfs Trial By Fire? Im very curious of your take on it…
November 3, 2017 @ 7:47 pm
It’s on the list….
November 4, 2017 @ 5:45 am
rap is crap
November 4, 2017 @ 1:50 pm
Yelawolf on the list, but not Jeremy Pinnell?
November 4, 2017 @ 2:02 pm
I haven’t seen anything on Pinnell’s most excellent album. Trigger should get on that one ASAP
November 4, 2017 @ 2:24 pm
I NEVER said Jeremy Pinnell was not on the list. I never said I wouldn’t review his album. It’s also a common, and wrong assumption that just because I don’t cover something, I either don’t like it, don’t support it, or are unaware of it. Ultimately the main reason an album gets reviewed or doesn’t has to do with if I have the words for a review, and the time to compose them. Just because I cover one artist or subject, doesn’t mean I inherently cannot or will not cover another. If an artist wants a review, they must inspire me to write something about their work. I always appreciate when readers tell me what they’re listening to, and give suggestions. But there are an incredible amount of albums released every week in the greater “country” realm (14 just this week, for example), and I cannot cover them all, especially when nobody reads my reviews anyway. Oh, and just in this comments section, I’ve been asked to review two albums that aren’t in “country” at all.
I’m doing the best job I can.
November 4, 2017 @ 5:35 pm
Completely understand! In the few years I have been following SCM, the Pinnell album is the only album I have come across on my own that in my mind is exceedingly worthy of being written up here and being exposed to SCM readers, that hasn’t also been covered here. Completely understand that you can’t immediatly be on top of everything that comes out, and it’s impossible to not have albums fly under the radar of SCM from time to time.
November 4, 2017 @ 5:44 pm
Also, I should add that the only reson I have mentioned it a handful of times in the comment sections is because he is that good, in my opinion. His first album is great too. Great writer, unique vocal delivery, and he has found a way to musically bring the perfect mix of a more modern americana approach while throwing in just the right amount of traditional country elements.
November 5, 2017 @ 3:10 am
Perfectly understandable that Trigger can’t review everything that gets released especially when we are approaching the ‘silly season’ (Christmas) when new releases are going to be coming fast and furious as the artists and labels hope to cash in. I’ve got a half dozen or so that I’m waiting to get for myself and could probably add another dozen to the list easily. Merry Christmas to me. 🙂
November 3, 2017 @ 7:44 pm
Now if we can get this on vinyl and his first two albums reissued as well things will be glorious.
November 4, 2017 @ 2:59 pm
Why would you want something recorded digitally on vinyl?
November 4, 2017 @ 6:15 pm
Because I have a record player Jay.
November 4, 2017 @ 6:33 pm
Cool. Is a Crosley? I bet it sounds awesome, because if you like what is most likely 44.1 kHz on vinyl it must be a terrific system.
November 5, 2017 @ 7:38 am
Wow, bro, passive aggressive much? Why do you even care?
I nominate this for “Most Pretentious Post” All Genres, 2017.
November 5, 2017 @ 7:45 am
Get it straight dummy, there was nothing passive about what I said. Until people start demanding better mastered and pressed records we are stuck with the garbage sounding vinyl that most guys are releasing.
November 5, 2017 @ 6:56 pm
*dumby
November 3, 2017 @ 8:01 pm
Um… YES?
More Jinks, methinks. ????
November 3, 2017 @ 8:02 pm
review sweet southern sugar by kid rock
November 4, 2017 @ 4:08 pm
Not country music ????
November 4, 2017 @ 4:33 pm
Southern rock
With one rap rock song in there
November 4, 2017 @ 6:22 pm
Some of it is!
November 5, 2017 @ 9:42 pm
Kid Rock doesn’t deserve to be taken seriously.
November 5, 2017 @ 10:08 pm
in your opinion
November 6, 2017 @ 5:46 am
I thought that was obvious.
November 3, 2017 @ 9:48 pm
My copy of the original release, which I bought at Ernest Tubb’s in Nashville, has the white with the black lettering as well, but I’ve seen the black with the white lettering on Amazon, iTunes and Cody’s website.
Anybody know the reason for the difference?
November 4, 2017 @ 2:04 pm
The black with white lettering was only for the first press of the cd. Everything after is the white with black lettering.
November 4, 2017 @ 1:54 am
I listen to Hippies & Cowboys 100 times and never got tired of this.
November 4, 2017 @ 3:56 am
Yea, that’s my favorite too.
November 4, 2017 @ 7:16 am
This album has perhaps Cody’s most under appreciated song – ‘Somewhere in the Middle.’ Easily one of my favorites in his catalog.
November 4, 2017 @ 2:06 pm
I hate this. I bought the album already. I don’t want to buy it again to get the new tracks or overpay for them. I’ve bought all of his albums to support him. I wish they would release the new tracks as an EP as an option.
November 4, 2017 @ 2:54 pm
Now, now… it will be alright.
This isn’t Garth Brooks repackaging all his old shit every Christmas.
November 4, 2017 @ 3:38 pm
It’s not just Cody. I think Greta Van Fleet is about to do it too with their second EP (it’s going to be a double EP which means I have to pay for the old songs or overpay for the new ones). It’s a crappy industry play.
November 5, 2017 @ 9:48 pm
This isn’t Garth Brooks period. It’s legit country music, not dogshit.
November 4, 2017 @ 4:10 pm
You don’t have to buy it. He’s trying to do his older songs justice by mastering them the way they deserved in the first place. If it kills you to give a guy like Cody 10$, I’m sorry.
November 5, 2017 @ 4:11 am
If the $7.99 price for the new album is too much, than just buy the 2 alternate takes and the cover of “Whiskey Bent and Hell Bound” for $1.29 each. Cody Jinks is independent…there is no record company executive forcing this release as a way to capitalize on his success. The album has been remastered, and knowing that many people have already bought it, he included the 3 additional tracks to justify spending money to buy the reissue. I have met Cody a few times and he is not in this for the money!!
November 5, 2017 @ 6:35 am
prin·ci·ple
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noun
1.
a fundamental truth or proposition that serves as the foundation for a system of belief or behavior or for a chain of reasoning.
At no point did I claim $7.99 would break me. It’s the principle. If I were to buy every reissue of albums I have already purchased it probably would. That’s my point.
November 4, 2017 @ 3:51 pm
The Song “David” from Adobe Sessions is one of the best songs I’ve ever heard.
He definitely has a gift.
November 4, 2017 @ 6:15 pm
I have my albums arranged by year and notice that Little Big Town’s 2010 “The Reason Why” and Cody Jink’s 2010 “Less Wise” use what looks like the same unique font. Jinks released his in March and LBT released theirs in August. I don’t think something like this should go unnoticed.
November 6, 2017 @ 1:28 pm
“and with that, Hugh had solved the mystery of the paternity of the Fairchild child…”
November 4, 2017 @ 6:23 pm
Is it gonna b on Apple Music?
November 4, 2017 @ 6:51 pm
I believe it will be on all formats.
November 4, 2017 @ 9:42 pm
Well, after polishing off almost 3/4 a bottle of Pappy Van Winkle’s 20 year, I’m ready to say I believe Cody Jinks had an affair with one of the members of Little Big Town in 2009. A gentleperson’s agreement between them to help get some romantic, heart break songs out for a couple of albums in 2010. I hope I don’t regret this in the morning. But I sure as hell won’t be suffering a hangover! I’ll have to put on the 1997 Leon Russel Retrospective album now for answers.
November 4, 2017 @ 10:35 pm
Adobe is also being released on vinyl
Less Wise CD and Adobe vinyl are both preordered. Boom
November 4, 2017 @ 10:37 pm
I only say, “I hope I don’t regret this in the morning”, because I’m a frequently flyer at the Wolf Point Club in Port Lavaca, Texas. Not too far from Cody Jinks old territory. The owner, friend of mine there has a thing for one of the wives of LBT and wouldn’t want upset that. Guess I’ll be switching to The Macallan M 1970 for the rest of the night along, with Wayne Hancock’s 1997 album.
November 5, 2017 @ 9:21 am
WTF…
November 5, 2017 @ 9:46 pm
Hugh how drunk were you last night?
November 6, 2017 @ 11:40 am
I’m still going strong and though I do like tap dancing atop pianos as much as the next guy, I’m a real man’s man.
November 5, 2017 @ 5:29 pm
sounds like you need to switch to Shirley Temples.
November 5, 2017 @ 6:33 pm
I think that’s about a $250 bottle of bourbon, so everything after the second or third one was a waste of money and bourbon and there is no retrospective album for Leon Russell in the discography I was looking at.
November 5, 2017 @ 7:06 pm
The real question is why it upsets you. You own the music, you are happy with the quality, this doesn’t apply to you. He recorded the quality he could afford at the time, now it’s possible to improve on it. Either enjoy or ignore.
November 5, 2017 @ 7:10 pm
Actually the album is titled Retrospective. One of my favorites here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0gaxMJgx8g
Try it with some Isabella’s Islay and you’ll be singing my song.
November 5, 2017 @ 11:19 pm
Found it. Thanks! I was unaware of it..
November 6, 2017 @ 8:15 am
On a somewhat related note, I saw Paul Cauthen a few nights ago and he mentioned that he, Cody, Ward Davis and Whitey Morgan are going into the studio in February. He (jokingly) referred to the project as “Highwaymen 2.0”.
I know that projects like that often get floated but never actually happen (and, when they do happen, they’re often underwhelming) but I thought I’d mention it – not sure if that has been discussed before or not.
November 7, 2017 @ 5:12 pm
That would be a great album with those 4 guys together.