{"id":5121,"date":"2013-03-06T00:02:58","date_gmt":"2013-03-06T05:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/?p=5121"},"modified":"2013-03-06T00:05:27","modified_gmt":"2013-03-06T05:05:27","slug":"savannah-stopover-preview-wet-socks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/2013\/03\/06\/savannah-stopover-preview-wet-socks\/","title":{"rendered":"Savannah Stopover preview: Wet Socks"},"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 \/>\nI&#8217;m running out of time to post more of these Savannah Stopover previews, but I&#8217;m not running out of acts worth seeing &#8212; not even close.<\/p>\n<p>Wet Socks (love the name) is the Savannah-based garage rock duo of Hunter Jayne (vocals, guitar) and John Zimmerman (drums) &#8212; one of a number of young local acts booked for this year&#8217;s festival.<\/p>\n<p>Just a couple of hours ago, Wet Socks posted &#8220;In My Head&#8221; from the upcoming EP <em>Dirty, Dirty<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"300\" height=\"100\" style=\"position: relative; display: block; width: 300px; height: 100px;\" src=\"http:\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/v=2\/track=368162687\/size=grande\/bgcol=FFFFFF\/linkcol=4285BB\/\" allowtransparency=\"true\" frameborder=\"0\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wetsocks.bandcamp.com\/track\/in-my-head\">In My Head by Wet Socks<\/a><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a great retro vibe, plus a willful distortion, an addictive beat, and some surprising shifts &#8212; all in 2 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>Hunter is also the guitarist and a backing vocalist for Triathalon &#8212;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/2013\/03\/02\/savannah-stopover-preview-triathalon\/\" target=\"_blank\"> click here<\/a> for my Stopover preview. At first, I was describing Wet Socks as a &#8220;Triathalon side project,&#8221; but the duo&#8217;s work seems both more serious and and more exciting each time I&#8217;ve heard them.  <\/p>\n<p>Wet Socks will be performing at 10 p.m. on Thursday, March 7 at Taco Abajo. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.savannahstopover.com\/schedule\/\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a> for the full Savannah Stopover schedule. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.savannahstopover.com\/bands\/wet-socks\/\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a> for the Stopover page devoted to Wet Socks, which doesn&#8217;t have much on it.<\/p>\n<p>In the days leading up to the Stopover, I&#8217;ve been posting quite a number of short previews like this. So far I&#8217;ve previewed Stop Light Observations, Mac DeMarco, Little Tybee, Eric Britt, Heyrocco, Roadkill Ghost Choir, this mountain, Triathalon, Field Report, Chelsea Light Moving, mumbledust, Delicate Steve, Henry Wagons, and of Montreal. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/tag\/savannah-stopover-preview\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Click here<\/strong><\/a> for all my Savannah Stopover previews. <\/p>\n<p>And here are a few pics I took of Wet Socks at a gig recently at The Sparetime, an appropriately spare room for the music. They have a look. 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Wet Socks (love the name) is the Savannah-based garage rock duo of Hunter Jayne&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/2013\/03\/06\/savannah-stopover-preview-wet-socks\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4763,"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},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[30,1019,272,527],"class_list":["post-5121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-savannah-stopover","tag-savannah-stopover-preview","tag-taco-abajo","tag-wet-socks"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/wet_socks_the_sparetime-3-e1358743777711.jpg?fit=460%2C670","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1gN9R-1kB","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5121"}],"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=5121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}