{"id":1458,"date":"2019-11-05T11:58:17","date_gmt":"2019-11-05T17:58:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thecoldstares.com\/?p=1458"},"modified":"2019-11-05T14:31:47","modified_gmt":"2019-11-05T20:31:47","slug":"heavy-blues-duo-the-cold-stares-dissect-their-new-album-ways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thecoldstares.com\/?p=1458","title":{"rendered":"Heavy Blues Duo The Cold Stares Dissect Their New Album \u2018Ways\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p> Consisting of musicians <strong>Chris Tapp<\/strong> (guitar and vocals) and <strong>Brian Mullins<\/strong> (drums), Evansville Indiana\u2019s <strong><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thecoldstares.com\" target=\"_blank\">The Cold Stares<\/a><\/strong>  play some unavoidably catchy blues-rock that\u2019s been turning heads at an  increasing rate since the band\u2019s inception in 2012. Today, as the duo  continue to celebrate the October 18th release of their latest studio  recording, <strong><em>WAYS<\/em><\/strong>, via <strong>AntiFragile Music<\/strong> (<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/ingroov.es\/ways\" target=\"_blank\">find pre-save\/order options here<\/a>), we\u2019re thrilled to exclusively share Chris Tapp\u2019s track-by-track rundown of each of the album\u2019s thirteen stupendous songs. <\/p><cite>Excerpt from <a href=\"https:\/\/saxviolins.com\/blues\/heavy-blues-duo-the-cold-stares-dissect-their-new-album-ways\/\">Sax &amp; Violins Blues Feature of The Cold Stares<\/a> by Christopher Gonda<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-gallery aligncenter columns-2 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"533\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thecoldstares.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/thomas_biggs_memphis_3.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"898\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.thecoldstares.com\/?attachment_id=898\" class=\"wp-image-898\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thecoldstares.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/thomas_biggs_memphis_3.jpg 533w, https:\/\/www.thecoldstares.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/thomas_biggs_memphis_3-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 533px) 100vw, 533px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thecoldstares.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/thomas_biggs_memphis_2.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"897\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.thecoldstares.com\/?attachment_id=897\" class=\"wp-image-897\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thecoldstares.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/thomas_biggs_memphis_2.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.thecoldstares.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/thomas_biggs_memphis_2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.thecoldstares.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/thomas_biggs_memphis_2-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thecoldstares.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/thomas_biggs_memphis_2-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Consisting of musicians Chris Tapp (guitar and vocals) and Brian Mullins (drums), Evansville Indiana\u2019s The Cold Stares play some unavoidably catchy blues-rock that\u2019s been turning heads at an increasing rate since the band\u2019s inception in 2012. Today, as the duo &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecoldstares.com\/?p=1458\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1001002,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[127,389,500,96,79,501,82,354,369,181,97,98,388,499,498,503,84,504,69,239],"class_list":["post-1458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-acousticblues","tag-antifragilemusic","tag-bluesfeature","tag-brianmullins","tag-christapp","tag-christophergonda","tag-deltablues","tag-hardrock","tag-heavyblues","tag-memphis","tag-newalbum","tag-newmusic","tag-samphillipsrecording","tag-saxviolins","tag-saxviolins-com","tag-songbysong","tag-southerngothic","tag-texasblues","tag-thecoldstares","tag-ways"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thecoldstares.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thecoldstares.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thecoldstares.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thecoldstares.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1001002"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thecoldstares.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1458"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thecoldstares.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1464,"href":"https:\/\/www.thecoldstares.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1458\/revisions\/1464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thecoldstares.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thecoldstares.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thecoldstares.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}