Just a few years ago, Justin James stared down his own mortality as a woeful encounter with a tiger shark left him bleeding to death on the beach of a remote South American beach. Multiple blood transfusions and hundreds of stitches later, James found himself depleted, bedridden and bewildered for what was to become an agonizing year of recovery. It was during this harrowing stretch that an unlikely gift from his grandmother, a new acoustic guitar, revived his longing for life, surf & music, unveiling a songwriter whose voice today has him dropping into a charmed life of travel and performance.