{"id":5132,"date":"2013-03-08T11:55:16","date_gmt":"2013-03-08T16:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/?p=5132"},"modified":"2013-03-08T12:19:34","modified_gmt":"2013-03-08T17:19:34","slug":"with-stellar-first-day-savannah-stopover-raises-the-bar-plus-a-quick-look-at-fridays-lineup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/2013\/03\/08\/with-stellar-first-day-savannah-stopover-raises-the-bar-plus-a-quick-look-at-fridays-lineup\/","title":{"rendered":"With stellar first day, Savannah Stopover raises the bar; plus a quick look at Friday&#8217;s lineup"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><div class=\"e26b170012445c56d240655bdd03f7bf\" data-index=\"10\" style=\"float: right; margin:10px 0 10px 10px;\">\n<script async src=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:inline-block;width:300px;height:600px\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-5595881567027133\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"8268618372\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<br \/>\nThe <a href=\"http:\/\/www.savannahstopover.com\" target=\"_blank\">Savannah Stopover<\/a> was an immediate game-changer for the city&#8217;s music scene when it was announced in 2011. <\/p>\n<p>The 2012 festival solidified the focus on up-and-coming indie bands headed to SXSW.<\/p>\n<p>But the 2013 festival, which began last night and continues through the weekend, looks to be changing the game even more. What an incredible opening night.<\/p>\n<p>I started out with a few hundred others at the glorious new North Garden at the Ships of the Sea Museum on MLK. Under the covered pavilion, The Last Bison ripped through their set with a kind of verve and joy that isn&#8217;t always associated with the indie scene. The incredibly talented Ben Sollee followed, after a brief intermission during which William Tyler plugged his guitar into the Third Man Records truck in the parking lot. If you haven&#8217;t heard William Tyler play guitar, you might want to add that to your list of life&#8217;s goals.<\/p>\n<p>Then I headed to The Sparetime for more of Tyler, this time playing electric and acoustic, layering loops in ways that were simply crazy good.<\/p>\n<p>The crowd was still building at 10 p.m. when Lee Bains III &#038; The Glory Fires took the upstairs stage at B&#038;D Burgers, but the band was electric and tight. Given the maturity and depth of their southern rock sound, I was expecting some older folks; the band might sound wise and savvy, but they sure look young.<\/p>\n<p>And let me hear add one pet peeve: poor lighting! It bugs me as a photographer, for sure, but it bugs me as a patron too. Tough to get any shots at all of Tyler at The Sparetime or The Glory Fires at B&#038;D. <\/p>\n<p>So then I biked up to the magnificent &#8212; really &#8212; renovated hall at the Knights of Columbus on Liberty Street. It&#8217;s a massive room up above Mellow Mushroom that most Savannahians probably don&#8217;t even know exists. <\/p>\n<p>There was a big crowd at the KofC for Thurston Moore&#8217;s new band Chelsea Light Moving. I&#8217;ll admit to being sort of a doubter about the Sonic Youth guitarist&#8217;s new project, but I loved the set. And I loved that it started with a song about New York poet Frank O&#8217;Hara.<\/p>\n<p>And then I caught about half the excellent set by Delicate Steve at Club One, then a song each of Bronze Radio Return at B&#038;D Burgers and Naomi Punk at The Jinx.<\/p>\n<p>Then The Jinx started filling up for what turned out to be an energetic, really fun set by Mac DeMarco.<\/p>\n<p>Followers of the indie scene will no doubt understand just how amazing it is to see that lineup in one night.<\/p>\n<p>For Day 2, the Stopover offers a free all-ages show in Forsyth Park with of Montreal and opener Royal Canoe.<\/p>\n<p>But there are plenty of other promisting acts on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.savannahstopover.com\/schedule\/\" target=\"_blank\">the complete schedule<\/a>. The music gets rolling at 4 and there are six different acts playing at both 5 and 6 p.m. After the show in the park, I&#8217;m hoping to catch some combination that might include The Suzan, Jacco Gardner, HAERTS, Country Mice, Ambassadors, and Snowmine. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s going to take me a while to edit all my pics, but here&#8217;s a quick gallery of a few unedited ones (I also got a couple of not-completely-awful videos of DeMarco). First up is The Last Bison, then William Tyler, then Thurston Moore with Chelsea Light Moving, then Mac DeMarco:<\/p>\n<p><!-- A0PAmF7gmfEC -->\r\n<!-- Cincopa WordPress plugin wp1.161: \/\/www.cincopa.com\/media-platform\/wordpress-plugin.aspx -->\r\n<div id=\"cp_widget_A0PAmF7gmfEC_a5492e27509ccc0ec5c7a79f4971cffc\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cincopa.com\/media-platform\/runtime\/loading.gif?w=594\" style=\"border:0;\" alt=\"Cincopa WordPress plugin\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/div>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n\/* PLEASE CHANGE DEFAULT EXCERPT HANDLING TO CLEAN OR FULL (go to your Wordpress Dashboard\/Settings\/Cincopa Options ... *\/\r\n\/\/ cp_load_widget(\"A0PAmF7gmfEC\", \"cp_widget_A0PAmF7gmfEC_a5492e27509ccc0ec5c7a79f4971cffc\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<div class=\"e26b170012445c56d240655bdd03f7bf\" data-index=\"2\" style=\"float: none; margin:0px 0 0px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:inline-block;width:300px;height:250px\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-5595881567027133\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"4374909701\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Savannah Stopover was an immediate game-changer for the city&#8217;s music scene when it was announced in 2011. The 2012 festival solidified the focus on up-and-coming indie bands headed to SXSW. But the 2013 festival, which began last night and&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/2013\/03\/08\/with-stellar-first-day-savannah-stopover-raises-the-bar-plus-a-quick-look-at-fridays-lineup\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5138,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[6],"tags":[1071,902,30,1072,924,1075],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Stopover-day1-rough-6-e1362761706958.jpg?fit=670%2C444","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1gN9R-1kM","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5132"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5132\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}