{"id":31305,"date":"2023-08-12T16:28:18","date_gmt":"2023-08-12T21:28:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=31305"},"modified":"2023-08-12T16:28:18","modified_gmt":"2023-08-12T21:28:18","slug":"i-passed-over-one-of-his-records-just-last-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/12\/i-passed-over-one-of-his-records-just-last-night\/","title":{"rendered":"I Passed Over One of His Records Just Last Night"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>But not tonight.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ky3.com\/2023\/08\/12\/branson-mo-music-community-mourns-loss-legendary-performer-shoji-tabuchi\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">Branson, Mo., music community mourns the loss of legendary performer Shoji Tabuchi<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Shoji&#8217;s <em>After Hours<\/em> was facing out, that is, in one of the record shelves at the right most position where the record is sort of visible.  I tend to go from right to left when looking through the albums so I can see the fronts, and I passed over Shoji last night in favor of some Liona Boyd and a George Benson\/Earl Klugh collaboration (called <em>Collaboration<\/em> for some reason).<\/p>\n<p>But tonight we&#8217;ll listen to it.<\/p>\n<p>I have one or two of his other records lost in the stacks.<\/p>\n<p>Tabuchi was born in Japan during World War II, and as a young violinist, he heard a show by Roy Acuff, and he (Shoji) fell in love with country fiddle, so he came to the US and perfected it and eventually bought a theatre in Branson to perform there.  My beautiful wife and I saw him once, many years ago.  He was a staple of the Branson scene for 30 years, and it seemed as though he would go on performing forever.  Perhaps he is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But not tonight. Branson, Mo., music community mourns the loss of legendary performer Shoji Tabuchi Shoji&#8217;s After Hours was facing out, that is, in one of the record shelves at the right most position where the record is sort of visible. I tend to go from right to left when looking through the albums so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31305"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31306,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31305\/revisions\/31306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}