Below are my picks for the 20 Best Songs of 2015 from below the Mason-Dixon line; the South being defined as D.C. down to Florida, over to Texas and up to Kentucky. I know that’s wildly up for debate but…
We don’t get too personal here at hissing lawns, but no one lives in a vacuum. 2015 has been a stressful year for me personally, including some high highs plus a couple of very low lows: my father died in…
We’ve seen Robert Lee Coleman and the Night Owls at Bragg Jam and Revival Fest, so it was great catching them at the final Stopover in the Yard of the season — a collaboration between Savannah Stopover/MusicFile Productions and The Grey.…
The 6th annual Savannah Stopover is on the horizon — the 3-day fest is slated for March 10 to 12, 2016 — and today MusicFile Productions announced the first wave of 43 confirmed bands. Ra Ra Riot, Yuck, and Futurebirds…
In my overview post (with photos!) of the spectacular 2015 Revival Fest, I noted that attendance took a hit because of the weather, which was ironic because the weather was actually pretty good: there was minimal rain, all the bands…
So there was another Stopover in The Yard on Saturday — third in a series of collaborations between Savannah Stopover/MusicFile Productions and The Grey. Missionary Blues brought their wonderful “juke joint style” to the not-unbearably-hot lunchtime show in The Yard…
About a year ago, we posted photos of Thomas Wynn & The Believers playing at The Jinx. Today, they performed the second installment of Stopover In The Yard — the new series of shows produced by Savannah Stopover in the…
None of our usual photographers were able to make it to the first Stopover In The Yard, a new collaboration between Savannah Stopover and The Grey, but Geoff L. Johnson was officially shooting the event. And no surprise: Geoff got…
I first met Christopher Paul Stelling several years ago through a run that he did with The Unchained Tour as their musical guest, and have since had the chance to spend more time with him during several years of Savannah…
Great Peacock from Nashville will kick off a new collaboration between MusicFile Productions (parent company of Savannah Stopover) and The Grey, which was recently chosen by Food & Wine as one of the five 2015 Restaurants of the Year, an…