After spending time in New York and California, he moved to Boston, Massachusetts, where he became a longtime fixture on the local music scene.
[2] In Treat Her Right, Champagne's "tremulous slide guitar" provided part of the band's distinctive quality, as Nashville music journalist Robert K. Oermann put it.
[3] People magazine wrote that Champagne mimicked the moaning vocal-slide guitar interplay that Robert Plant and Jimmy Page did so well in the early days of Led Zeppelin.
[5] In 2019, Champagne got together with drummer Billy Conway and harmonica player Jim Fitting - the two other members of Treat Her Right - and recorded an album.
A live date for the trio billed as "Billy, Jimmy, & Dave" was announced for January 19, 2020 at Club Passim in Cambridge - their first appearance together on stage since all were in Treat Her Right.