"He's among the kindest I've met on the road": Cody Jinks Shares Video for 'In My Blood' Featuring Charlie Starr of Blackberry Smoke

With a new album out in the world today, country rock heavyweights and regular road buddies, Cody Jinks and Charlie Starr of Blackberry Smoke, are united in the studio for the new video for the title track to Jinks' new album.

"'In My Blood' was written during the 2024 tour with Blackberry Smoke," explains Cody Jinks about how the collaboration came about. "I was telling Charlie (Starr) how much our band and crew loved being out on the road with them. They're not in the 'Music Business', there's no B.S., there's no fat to trim. Being out on the road with one of the purest bands in the business is a blessing."

"Charlie and I have become pretty good friends and he's among the kindest I've met on the road," he added. "He's also all over the track singing and ripping like he does. Let's call this song what it is. It's a song about being the last of the true blue, get in the van and go, no plan B, Honky Tonkin, road dog Badass."

Watch the video for 'In My Blood' below

Taken from the new 11-track album, In My Blood, the title track is a blistering country rock classic from two of the genre's genuine living legends.

"My hat hangs proud on the songs that I sing / There’s a few where I’ve looked back and thought 'Man, what was I thinking," Jinks sings in his well worn and weathered drawl. "Been ragged and dirty and driftin’ with my own kind of style / It ain't pretty till it is / When you walk it a while."

Cody Jinks has lived a life outside the lines, earning a reputation as an outlaw, a badass, and one of the most important country singers and songwriters of the modern era. On In My Blood, his 11th studio album, co-produced by Jinks’ longtime bassist Joshua Thompson and Charles Godfrey, he looks back on those wild years and celebrates the fact that, against all odds, he and his band are still above ground.

“This record is most certainly a celebration of survival. It’s a message of, ‘We made it,’” Jinks says. “We made it as a band, and as humans. We’ve made it as musicians, as husbands, as fathers. And we’re still going.”

That theme of resilience is all over In My Blood, an album that stands as the most accessible of Jinks’ nearly 20-year career. The melodies are irresistible, the lyrics inspiring, and the playing as passionate as it comes. Recorded at the isolated but bucolic Sonic Ranch outside of El Paso, Texas, it’s an album for fans of country music and beyond.

“In My Blood encompasses the human element,” says Jinks, who has 5 billion streams across platforms and eight songs certified Platinum or Gold. “I write about what I know: being a 45-year-old dude that’s been married over 20 years, and on the road most of that time, while my wife was home raising our kids. And I don’t think there’s a genre of music that translates that kind of life better than country. It’s real, it’s honest, and it connects with so many people of all walks of life — we’re all survivors of something.”

In My Blood is out now on Late August Records