photos by Terry Tammadge


Not long after The Threadgill Troubadours dropped the "Threadgill" from their name, they became Champ Hood and the Troubadours, and came down to Gruene Hall to continue their Wednesday night family get togethers. Since these shows were no longer "Supper Sessions", as they had been called in Austin, Champ often jokingly called the band, "The Hungry Troubadours".

One night last summer we decided that we couldn't let them go hungry any more, and made the boys a humongeous spaghetti dinner...with LOTS of meatballs.....and garlic bread....and dessert too.....They ate so much that they could hardly play.....I think I even saw Ron close his eyes a couple of times, back there on the traps.......So.... they became the Hungry Troubdadours again.....

Gruene Hall thanks Marvin Dykhuis, Ron Erwin, Dave Heath, David Carroll, Mandy Mercier, Champ and Warren Hood, and all of the honorary Troubadours for the music and the joy that you brought us over the years.


Champ, David Carroll, Ron Erwin, Marvin Dykhuis
 
 

          

                      Champ and Mandy gettin' down                              Shake Russell and the Troubadours
 
 



           

                                                     Warren Hood                                             Marvelous Marvin
 
 

Photos by Doug Brown, Ann McClendon
and Tracie Ferguson
 
 

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