Bill Champlin is on the phone calling from his home in Santa Barbara, California. And while it’s ostensibly to discuss his new solo record
Livin’ for Love available digitally from Imagen Records and physically from BillChamplin.com he first has something to say about visiting our fair city’s environs.
“My wife and son and I just drove to Houston for Christmas. And that’s a long ass drive!” he laughs. “Hell, California is pretty much locked down, so we went to Texas on a whim.” It turns out that his wife, singer/songwriter Tamara Champlin, grew up in Friendswood and graduated from Friendswood High School before attending the University of Houston, so they visited her family for the holiday.