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[COUNTRY] Cody Jinks isn’t cut out for country’s mainstream… hopefully he’ll continue to avoid the production pitfalls that have come to characterize it over the last decade. A Texas-based artist now in his late 30’s, Jinks got started in music as the lead singer of a Fort Worth thrash metal outfit called Unchecked Aggression, and while his recent music doesn’t resemble his teeth-gritting, aggro beginnings, it does carry just enough outlaw spirit to separate him from the herd. Lifers, his latest and also his debut for Rounder Records—a label which offered him a deal after his previous indie release, I’m Not The Devil, cracked the Billboard top 5 in his genre and sold 70,000 copies without any corporate push—grapples with growing older and the usual classic-country themes of loneliness and heartache, but it’s the built-in blue collar demographic that really allows him to shine. There’s no assumption of privilege in the universe that Jinks creates for his marginalized characters, so you can relax and just be yourself. His show at Town Ballroom on Sunday, December 2, will likely revel in a similarly natural spirit, with Nashville’s The Steel Woods and TN Jet in the opening slots.