Trapper Schoepp

Trapper Schoepp is a singer songwriter based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.  He has performed solo, or with his eponymous band, or with a side band called Shades with both bands featuring his brother, Tanner Schoepp on bass guitar.  Born in Red Wing, Minnesota which is on the Wisconsin border, Trapper assembled his first band at Ellsworth High School in Wisconsin.  The Schoepp brothers migrated east to Milwaukee where Trapper attended the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee and released Lived and Moved in 2009.  He followed that up with Run, Engine, Run with the Shades in 2012, Rangers and Valentines in 2016, and Bay Beach Amusement Park in 2017.  In 2018 Trapper decided to try his hand at completing an unfinished Bob Dylan song from 1961 called “On, Wisconsin.  Trapper recorded the song and it is on his album Primetime Illusion.  Trapper is a non-stop creative tour de force.  His passion for his craft has garnered him many accolades and a strong and growing following of fans.  In this episode, Trapper discusses his songs “May Day,” “Hotel Astor,” “ On, Wisconsin,””Paris Syndrome,” “Olgallala,” Ballad of Olof Johnson,” and “Twenty Odd Years.”