They’ve recently begun to perform with a full backing group called The Hazzard County Band. A study in contrasts, younger brother Jason’s outgoing nature complements Chuck’s more reserved manner. Though primarily known as a cover act, these siblings from a musical family (their dad is an established local player as well) have begun to slip some twangy originals into their bar and restaurant sets as well. The very popular and hard-working ensemble Liquid Ginger garnered the top spot the last three years, coming in a solid number two in the vote count this time around. A slight uptick this year in their generally scarce live concert calendar appears to have put them over the top in the reader’s poll for the first time ever. After several years of taking home the Best Jazz Artist distinction, conventional wisdom says he would pretty much have to saw the dome off City Hall or kick Pete Liakakis in the jimmy to sufficiently alter his public image enough to allow someone to wrestle this category away from his kung-fu grip.īest Musician Runner-up: Greg Williams has one of the best sets of pipes in town, and while his songwriting usually overshadows his fretwork, he’s a tasteful and agile guitarist as well.īest Jazz Artist runner-up: Local thespian Trae Gurley parlayed a love of Sinatra and a flair for swing vocals into a popular nightclub act that finds him emulating the late star’s big band years to pre-recorded backing.īuoyed by the songwriting skills and charismatic stage presence of Keith Kozell as well as a mind-bendingly thick three-lead guitar attack, this garage/retro septet finally appears poised to make the most of their many talents, having just released their first CD in twelve years together. Many of you know his tunes and melodies (such as the indefatigable standard “Comin’ Home Baby”) without necessarily attaching his name to them.
E-mail him at & Entertainmentīen is without a doubt one of the busiest working musicians in town. Jim is editor-in-chief of Connect Savannah. If you didn’t win this time, don’t be a hater - next year’s competition begins now!
Honorable mention entries are each given a full-page to lead off each section of this year’s winners.Īnyway, we hope you enjoy this year’s “Best of Savannah” issue. This year’s winning cover is a photo of Forsyth Park by SCAD senior Adam Kuehl. In a development that I for one would like to see become an annual tradition, this year we had a call for entries so local artists could compete to see whose artwork would grace our cover this year. She graduates in a few weeks and she will be sorely missed. In addition to the usual thank-yous to our diligent editorial staff, our creative designers, our dynamite sales team and our wicked awesome distributors, I’d like to extend a special individual thanks and fond farewell to our editorial intern, Ashley Jensen of the Savannah Arts Academy, who took most of the newer photos of this year’s winners.įor two semesters Ashley has gleefully taken on her various writing and photography assignments, performing them all with a professionalism far beyond her years. You might also find the results quite interesting. We were so impressed by the number and diversity of votes in that last category that we decided to list the top three vote-getters. Runners-up are then listed in Bold Type after the winner’s blurb.Īs part of our ongoing effort to make the poll as fresh as possible, this year we’ve taken out a few tired categories (you know the ones!) and added several new categories, including Best CAT Driver, Best Professor, Best Wi-Fi Spot (short for “wireless fidelity,” i.e., wireless internet access) and Best Clergy.
Each winner’s blurb is listed under a heading like so: But I digress).Īfter long nights spent counting the thousands of votes we received by snail mail and over the internet, the issue you hold in your hand is our round-up of all the winners. Each spring, Connect Savannah sponsors our annual “Best of Savannah” Reader’s Poll (which I suppose would be more accurately called an “election,” since it uses ballots instead of random sampling.
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