Cody Jinks at Red Rocks Amphitheatre

Cody Jinks has upped the ante of playing and performing country music. His game-changing style caught the attention of fans and has earned the thumbs-up as well of music critics, with Rolling Stone Magazine including them in the list as one of the "10 New Country Artists You Need to Know".

From his hometown in Haltom City, Texas, Jinks naturally listened to country music. But succumbed to the lure of heavy metal. From 1997 to 2003, took front-man duties for the Fort Worth-based thrash metal band Unchecked Aggression. As he began to pursue his solo career, he'd gone back to playing country, but still kept his metal influences which he developed and concocted his own peculiar mix of traditional country music, Texas-twinged honky-tonk, '70s-era Southern rock, and outlaw country.

A hybrid of outlaw country and metal rock followers started welling-up, and music critics were all ears when he released his 2015 album "Adobe Sessions", which peaked at No. 2 on Billboard's Heatseekers chart. Soon afterward, he skyrocketed to fame with the release of his 2016 album "I'm Not the Devil", which debuted at No. 4 on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart, and features a cover of Merle Haggard's "The Way I Am."

If you need a change of country music scenery, take the rough dirt road leading to a Cody Jinks concert! It's gonna be a helluva fun ride!