(This page is called ResurrectionoftheBayouMaharajah)
He developed a certain paranoia about the CIA.... His business card read "Creative International Associates."
One time I was driving James to the Maple Leaf to perform the opening set for Marcia Ball. As we rode, I inadvertantly said to him, "Yeah, that's Marcia with a C-I-A." He said "stop the car!" and jumped out on Claiborne Avenue and disappeared for about four hours.
--John Parsons
(See also BlairJackson's quote of similar paranoia via JohnKahn)
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"He'd play impossibly beautiful melodies against syncopated bass and chord patterns - his own mutant version of stride - that left everybody in the bar breathless and with every sadness in their hearts exposed."