Surfer Justin James stared down mortality as an encounter with a tiger shark left him bleeding to death on a South American beach. Multiple blood transfusions and hundreds of stitches later, he found himself depleted and bedridden for what became an agonizing year of recovery. It was during this harrowing stretch that a gift, a new acoustic guitar, revived his longing for life and unveiled a songwriter whose voice today has him dropping into a charmed world of travel and performing.