For more than a dozen years, Jim Curley's Mountain Music Shoppe was an acoustic oasis in Johnson County; not just a place where people bought instruments but got together in picking sessions and attended intimate concerts by renowned folk musicians, from Stacey Earle and Mark Stuart to Tommy Ramone. The store was the center of a wide, local musical community.
The shoppe is no more.
This past Wednesday, Kansas IRS officials seized everything inside the store. Curley owed back taxes. He was wor
