{"id":238,"date":"2009-01-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-01T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-11-05T16:14:15","modified_gmt":"2010-11-05T21:14:15","slug":"songs_and_stories_49_chojo_jaques_and_bi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/songs_and_stories_49_chojo_jaques_and_bi\/","title":{"rendered":"Songs and Stories #49: Chojo Jacques and Billy Bright"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_1440\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-238-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/songs_and_stories\/www.michaelgaither.com\/podcasts\/songs_and_stories49.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/songs_and_stories\/www.michaelgaither.com\/podcasts\/songs_and_stories49.mp3\">http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/songs_and_stories\/www.michaelgaither.com\/podcasts\/songs_and_stories49.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/songs_and_stories\/www.michaelgaither.com\/podcasts\/songs_and_stories49.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/?powerpress_pinw=238-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/songs_and_stories\/www.michaelgaither.com\/podcasts\/songs_and_stories49.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"songs_and_stories49.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p>Click to hear <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/podcasts\/songs_and_stories49.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Songs and Stories&#8221;<\/a> #49 (time = 27:21, size = 31.4 mb)<\/p>\n<p>Multi-instrumentalists <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chojo.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Chojo Jacques<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.waybacks.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Waybacks<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/michaelgaither.com\/b2\/blogs\/index.php?blog=2&amp;title=songs_and_stories_31_houston_jone_s_chri&amp;more=1&amp;c=1&amp;tb=1&amp;pb=1\" target=\"_blank\">Houston Jones<\/a>) and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/inimitablestringband\" target=\"_blank\">Billy Bright<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.highstring.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Two High String Band<\/a>) have just released &#8220;Texacali Blues&#8221;, a duo CD featuring instrumentals on mandolin, fiddle, mando-stratocaster and electric guitar, as well as a few original tunes with vocals by Chojo and Billy. <\/p>\n<p>In this interview recorded backstage at Don Quixote&#8217;s Music Hall, Chojo discusses his family&#8217;s musical heritage, Billy talks about how he and Chojo&#8217;s collaboration evolved, and they both chat about how music festivals &#8211; The Strawberry Music Festival in particular &#8211; lend themselves to a musical melting pot and lots of late-night jamming.<br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.chojo.net\/\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/michaelgaither.com\/b2\/blogs\/media\/texacali.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/center><\/p>\n<p>Chojo and Billy are doing three local shows to celebrate the new CD. On 1\/22, they&#8217;ll do a mandolin and fiddle workshop (followed by a concert) at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sylvanmusic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sylvan Music<\/a> in Santa Cruz. On 1\/23, they&#8217;ll be at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.missioncitysc.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mission City Coffee Roasting<\/a> in Santa Clara, and on 1\/24 you can catch them at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/canyonacoustic\" target=\"_blank\">Canyon Acoustic Society<\/a> house concert series in Aromas. <\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/ax.phobos.apple.com.edgesuite.net\/WebObjects\/MZStore.woa\/wa\/browserRedirect?url=itms%253A%252F%252Fax.phobos.apple.com.edgesuite.net%252FWebObjects%252FMZStore.woa%252Fwa%252FviewPodcast%253Fid%253D216646993\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/subscribe-with-itunes.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.michaelgaither.com%2Fhome%2Fsongs_and_stories_49_chojo_jaques_and_bi%2F&amp;layout=standard&amp;&amp;width=800&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:800px;height:30px;margin-top:5px;\"><\/iframe>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Click to hear &#8220;Songs and Stories&#8221; #49 (time = 27:21, size = 31.4 mb) Multi-instrumentalists Chojo Jacques (The Waybacks, Houston [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-podcast"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":804,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions\/804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}