 However, he persistently used the claim in his material and publicity, even releasing an album titled "Let Me Tell You About My Operation", and he insisted thereafter on being billed as Rae (rather than Ray) Bourbon.In December 1968 he was accused of being an accomplice to murder.He traveled between performances in an old car pulling a trailer containing some 70 pet dogs; after the car broke down, he entrusted their care to a kennel owner in Texas, A. D. Blount.