Cody Jinks Cody Jinks Sings Lefty Frizzell LP

Country music outlaw Cody Jinks honors one of the most influential country music vocal stylists of all time on this album of songs popularized by Lefty Frizzell.

"The first song my Dad taught me to play on guitar was Lefty's 'Long Black Veil.' My favorite country singer/songwriter Merle Haggard was a Lefty fan. If you trace my country music lineage, you can hear a little Lefty in some of my stuff. I loved making this project!"

Lefty Frizzell's style of singing influenced a great many singers, particularly Merle Haggard, Willie Nelson, George Jones, Keith Whitley, and Roy Orbison. He was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1982 as well as the Songwriters Hall of Fame. In his prime, Frizzell was the first artist to achieve four songs in the top ten on the Country Music Billboard charts at one time. Frizzell went on to have more success, releasing many songs that charted in the Top 10 of the Hot Country Songs charts as an artist and songwriter. In 2019, Frizzell's single "Long Black Veil" was selected by the U.S. Library of Congress for preservation in the National Recording Registry for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".

Cody Jinks Sings Lefty Frizzell is lovingly and respectfully produced and presented, and it's moments like these that help keep those early artists and influences of country music alive.