updated  10-4--03
THE DESCHAMPS BAND  | WARREN HOOD


DESCHAMPS "CHAMP"  HOOD


                                  photo by Terry Tammadge

Aug. 16th, 1952 - Nov. 3rd, 2001


Our friend, Champ Hood has passed on from complications due to cancer. Many years ago, Champ wrote," I live upon a high hill, work my hands in wire and wood and I sing like a whippoorwill, and every night there's one thing on my mind: only that you love me until the day I die. If you love me then, you know I would not mind." 
Champ, consider it done.

Thanks to everyone for your support.
Champ's Family of Friends


photos courtesy Steve Clark



 
 


 

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Champs' CD - Now available on-line at
 http://www.southcongressrecords.com/champ.html

 The Mighty Contenders

Walter Hyatt, Champ Hood, Tommy Goldsmith, Steve Runkel, Jimbeau Walsh

Now available on Gadfly Records


 CHAMP ARTICLES & TRIBUTE PAGES

 Tribute To Champ Hood Shows

 Click here  for pictures from the 3
tribute shows held in honor of Champ (and Walter Hyatt, in Spartanburg)
 

  http://www.corridor.net/champ/legendsin.html  Metro Beat: Spartanburg, South Carolina

 http://honkytonkangels.com   Streaming video and review of Champ
and the Troubadours at Gruene Hall in March 2001.

 http://www.corridor.net/champ/rusharticle.html  Article printed in Discovery magazine by Rush Evans

 http://www.toniprice.com/champ.html  Bill Groll /webmaster for Toni Price and publisher of AustinAmericana.com

   http://www.corridor.net/champ/champ4.html  Michael Corcoran Article / from Austin-American Statesman on-line

  Saying Goodbye to Champ Hood  Michael Corcoran Article / from Austin-American Statesman on-line

Craig Havighurst Article  From The Nashville Tennessean

 http://www.corridor.net/champ//champspartanburg.html  Spartanburg Herald-Journal 11-5-01

 http://www.corridor.net/champ/champbrad.html  Austin-American Statesman/XLent

 Austin Chronicle 11-09-01 Ken Lieck

Austin Chronicle 11-09-01  Jimmie Dale Gilmore

  http://www.corridor.net/champ/champspartanburg2.html   Spartanburg Herald-Journal

Pictures

 http://www.corridor.net/champ/arthurpics.html   pictures by Arthur Wood  (from Kerrville 92
                                                                                                  and Walter Hyatt tributes in 1996)

 "Hippy Hour" pics at  http://www.toniprice.com/champHHphotos.html


 Coming Home

for Champ...by

Terry
Clarke

grace notes

a familiar violin
revered and cherished
sings its bygone love song
to a wounded, fearful world
as our maestro coaxes his strings
into sweet and pungent alchemy
to soothe our troubled souls

hope rises in the mist
above the garden
as grace notes
fall on me
like early
morning dew

alyce guynn
© october 17, 2001

 WARREN  AND CHAMP HOOD
March 11th, 2001



 
 

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