James LegJames Leg was born John Wesley Myers and hails from Port Arthur, Texas. His father was and is a preacher, and at a young age, John and his family moved to Chattanooga, Tennessee, where the young Leg learned piano and played during his father's services. When he was 15, he attended a tent revivalist's sermon on the evils of secular music, and the young man who had been raised on gospel got a taste of some forbidden sounds, including the Rolling Stones,