[5] He claimed to have undertaken training as a commando, and spent time in jail around 1950 for burglary, before becoming a musician.
[6] He followed it up with "Junco Partner (Worthless Man)" in 1952, recorded by Shad in Atlanta, Georgia.
In February 1967, he was arrested after setting fire to a motel in South Central Los Angeles following an argument with its manager, and was charged on three felony counts.
He was found to have had a history of alcoholism, and to be suffering from paranoid schizophrenia, and was committed to a mental health institution.
[3] According to blues researchers Bob Eagle and Eric LeBlanc, he died in Los Angeles in 1978 and was buried at Santa Fe Springs.