Pastor Champion

Pastor Wylie Champion was a man out of time, an enigma. An itinerant preacher, a pastor without a church, he was an outsider gospel artist who spent decades roaming up and down the California coastline armed with an electric guitar, playing, singing in a seasoned yet honeyed baritone, and preaching along the road well into his seventies. Amazingly, even in the 21st century, it is possible to be largely anonymous. Very little is objectively known about him. A tightlipped man who preferred to let his music do the talking, we know that he was born Wylie Champion in Shreveport, ...