Channel: Luaka Bop

Category: Music

Description: Order Pastor Champion's “I Just Want To Be a Good Man”: luakabop.lnk.to/PastorChampion This album is a tribute to Pastor Champion (Nov 23, 1946 - Dec 28, 2021), who died while we were in the process of releasing this, his first record—and his wife, Mother Champion, who died a few months earlier. Pastor Champion was a badass. He was a preacher, a pastor, an outsider gospel singer who was raised in the Jim Crow South. He fled to California, where he joined a gang before becoming born again, and then spent the rest of his days traveling with his electric guitar to congregations and people’s homes from San Jose to Shreveport. In 2018, we got to make an album with him. We recorded it analog, like the gospel records we love, on location, Alan Lomax style, in the 37th Street Baptist Church in Oakland, California, with the Bishop Dr. W.C. McClinton presiding. Learn more about the pastor and the record we made together at pastorchampion.com. CREDITS ✝ Pastor Wiley Champion Harvey Lester ✝ Leonard Franklin Samuel Nicholas Champion ✝ Mother She'ren Champion Heliena Champion Sister Mary First Lady Elma Butler Pastor Tex Butler Filmed by Adam Wissing & Eric Welles-Nyström Edited by Savannah Weymouth Coloring Adam Wissing Titles Paul Diddy Sound Beau Sorenson & Maryam Qudus Executive Produced by Eric Welles-Nyström & Yale Evelev Thanks to Bishop Dr. W.C. McClinton and everyone at the 37th Street Baptist Church. May God bless Pastor Champion and his family.