Heavy Shoes The Cold Stares

• 1Heavy Shoes03:10
• 240 Dead Men03:08
• 3Take This Body From Me03:02
• 4Hard Times03:26
• 5In The Night Time03:08
• 6Strange Light03:01
• 7Prosecution Blues03:53
• 8It's A Game02:31
• 9Save You From You03:18
• 10You Wanted Love02:43
• 11Election Blues03:29
• 12Dust In My Hands03:46
• Total Runtime38:35

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Der großartige US-Bundesstaat Kentucky ist für viele Dinge weltbekannt. Bluegrass-Musik? Ja, natürlich. Den samtigen, bestschmeckenden Bourbon, der von Menschenhand geschaffen wurde? Es geht kaum besser. Eine Sache, die man nicht immer mit Kentucky in Verbindung bringt, ist der Rock'n'Roll. The Cold Stares sind entschlossen, diese Wahrnehmung zu ändern.

Chris Tapp und Brian Mullins kennen sich schon seit Jahren. Sie wuchsen im Westen Kentuckys auf, nur einen Steinwurf von der Grenze zu Indiana entfernt. Ursprünglich begannen sie in ihren frühen Zwanzigern zusammen zu spielen, bevor sie getrennte Wege gingen, nur um sich ein Jahrzehnt später als The Cold Stares wieder zu vereinen. "Es gibt hier eine Menge großartiger Musiker, aber es ist schwer, Leute mit Biss zu finden", erklärt Mullins.

Der Großteil des Albums wurde an einem einzigen Tag in Sam Phillips sagenumwobenem Aufnahmestudio in Memphis aufgenommen. Abgeliefert haben The Cold Stares ihr bisher bestes Album, welches eine intensive musikalische Mischung aus Blind Willie Johnson meets Son House; Stevie Ray Vaughan meets Black Sabbath; Soundgarden meets Black Crowes; Free meets Led Zeppelin ist. "Ich habe das Gefühl, dass ich das, was ich sagen will, ein bisschen prägnanter und eleganter ausdrücke, und ich denke, dass Brian und ich, nachdem wir so lange zusammen gespielt und Platten gemacht haben, uns über die Aussage, die wir jetzt machen wollen, ziemlich im Klaren sind", sagte Tapp. "Wir waren nie eine dieser Bands, bei denen wir sagten: 'Auf der nächsten Platte werden wir wirklich etwas völlig anderes machen.' Wir waren glücklich mit dem Gefühl, mit dem wir angefangen haben. Wir wollen die Band sein, die wir sind."

The Cold Stares

The Cold Stares
Authenticity. It’s word frequently used in describing THE COLD STARES, and often missing from modern music discussions. “We’re not just a blues band, or just a rock band, or anything other than who we are,” frontman Chris Tapp says. There is a power and a realness that is arrived at by just doing what you do best. THE COLD STARES do that.

Forged in 2008 and named in honor of The Black Crowes song “Stare It Cold,” Tapp and Brian Mullins united with the sole intent to jam. No preconceived notions, they just did what came naturally. The result is a sonically and emotionally weighted, story-based brand of rock sung directly from the soul.

Tapp’s unique guitar rig and Mullins’ giant bass drum provide a visual and sonic landscape for the two to travel on different paths than other acts. You may find yourself looking for another member behind the curtains, but it’s just the two of them. As Huffington Post writer Radley Balko wrote in describing the first time he saw the group at a hometown gig at 3rd And Lindsley: “This will go on for an hour. Between songs, people will whisper. They’re asking one another if anyone knows who the hell this is. And it’s here that you and everyone in the room will have the same realization just about everyone else has the first time they see and hear THE COLD STARES live: These guys are better than the band you came to see.”

And their success has come from hard work and perseverance. From keeping everything in-house: Booking, promotion, recording, and merchandise design, Tapp and Mullins have handled it at all themselves. Fans have seen THE COLD STARES in venues like Pianos in New York City and the Viper Room in Hollywood, and at festivals like The Ride, Copperhead, Handy Bluesfest, with acts like Rival Sons, Big Head Todd, and Spoon among many others.

And now this June, THE COLD STARES will release their long-awaited new full-length, Head Bent, via Small Stone Recordings. Following up their two successful EPs recorded with Mark Needham (Fleetwood Mac, The Killers, Elton John, Stevie Nicks) and 2014’s A Cold Wet Night And A Howling Wind mashup album, the eleven-track Head Bent was produced and mixed by the band with Greg Pearce and mastered by Chris Goosman (Acid King, La Chinga, Solace, Lo Pan, Freedom Hawk et al). Fans of The Black Crowes, Dirty Streets, Rival Sons, and Royal Blood pay heed.

“I think everything we’ve been through so far has led us to this album. These songs are such a part of us and who we are that it’s impossible to separate the two. Whether it’s fighting to find your way back to your love in the civil war epic ‘Ball And Twine,’ burying the gravedigger in the southern gothic tale of ‘John,’ or twisting the throttle back and riding through the desert in ‘Head Bent,’ each one of these songs are a visual to narratives and stories that have been in my head for years,” says Tapp. “I hope our fans are able to escape for a while from reality in these songs the way that we do.”

Dieses Album enthält kein Booklet