Trapper Schoepp - Rangers & Valentines '2016

Tracks list

Tracklist

01. Mono, Pt. 2
02. Tornado Alley
03. Ogallala
04. Ballad of Olof Johnson
05. Talking Girlfriend Blues
06. Settlin or Sleepin Around
07. Lost Cowboy
08. For Jonny
09. Dont Go
10. Dream


Trapper Schoepp is a young man who has befriended a strange and diverse cast of
characters during his 24 years. That small army of rogues and rebels, drifters
and dreamers, soldiers and schemers populate his songs, their tragedies and
comedies, their lives and deaths recalled in his finely etched musical
vignettes.

The Minnesota-born, Wisconsin-based tunesmith and teller of tales (both tall and
true), returns with his second effort Rangers & Valentines (Xtra Mile
Recordings). The record follows his critically acclaimed 2012 debut Run Engine,
Run, with his band the Shades. That LP earned notices in Rolling Stone, American
Songwriter and Paste, with the folks at Huffington Post calling him a master
storyteller and PBS hailing his story songs that explore and explode the
conventions of rock and roll.

On Rangers & Valentines, Schoepp defies the limitations of the standard-issue
Americana platter, hopping genres youll hear lots of brass, backing singers and
B-3 -- as the songs build to delirious musical highs. His narratives, meanwhile,
find subjects in the narrow margins of society, the strange twists (literal and
metaphorical) in the weather, and the vagaries of a troubadours transient life
with lyrics that flash a lacerating wit and humanist streak that s at the core
of his craft.

Produced by pop polymath and Raconteurs member Brendan Benson at his Readymade
Studios in Nashville, the record finds Schoepp handling vocals, guitar and
harmonica. Hes aided by an array of estimable musicians including his brother
and musical-foil-since-birth Tanner Schoepp (providing bass guitar and vocal
harmonies), Steve Selvidge (The Hold Steady), John Davis (Superdrag), the
McCrary Sisters -- even comedian and WTF podcaster Marc Maron chips in on
background vocals and lead guitar.

Tanner Schoepp, vocals, guitar, harmonica
Spencer Cullum Jr., stell guitar
Marc Maron, lead guitar
Steve Selvidge, guitar
John Davis, guitar
Geoff Sanoff, acoustic guitar, bells, whistle
Jason Verstegen, guitar
Micah Hulscher, piano, organ
Dana Robbins, saxophone
Roland Barber, trombone
Quentin Ware, trumpet
Jonny Phillip, drums
Brendan Benson, percussion, vocals
The McCrary Sisters, vocals

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