Trapper Schoepp Setlist
Tour Dates
4/15 - Madison, WI - Kiki's House of Righteous Music
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Opening the show was Laura Hugo. The local singer/songwriter was originally from the Navajo Nation in Arizona. She was quite frank with her personal life… like how she tried to commit suicide.
She also mentioned how she was so grateful to make it on The Current (local radio station) showcase for emerging artists earlier this year. She noted that they edit out a lot of things, but was surprised to hear they kept in her shoutout to her guitar tuner. The six-song set was recorded live at the Sacred Heart Music Center in Duluth, Minnesota.
Hugo covered Gillian Welch’s “Look At Miss Ohio” early in the set, and closed her set with her 2017 debut hit single, “Not Even A Little Bit”.
Next up was Becky Kapell, with Paul. They’re operating as one half of her normally full band Becky Kapell and The Fat 6, a real swampy, honky-tonk local band.
Kapell has a long history, saying how she lived in St Paul for a while… then moved to Portland, got married, and returned back to St Paul, where she is residing now. “I was 42 when I started playing guitar… I’m older than that now,” she concluded.
Highlight of her set was the title track from Idle Down, with its high-octane intro lyrics, “Rev it up, let it rip, turn up the radio.”
Wisconsin’s Trapper Schoepp and his full band, came on stage and just quickly launched into their set - 20 minutes earlier than advertised! The band was just eager to play, rather than wait for their announced time.
Trapper Schoepp (12 November 2013)
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Since then, we’ve been keeping a close eye on Trapper, seeing him with Austin Lucas in Dec 2013, with Lydia Loveless in July 2015, with Big Star in Sep 2015, American Scarecrows in Oct 2015, and finally with Ha Ha Tonka in May 2017.
So we have a little history with the band and have always loved their rock/roots sound. With this 2023 tour (after a few years being absent from touring due to the pandemic), it would seem that the band decided to play mostly new songs from Siren Songs. Which technically wasn’t available publicly … but it was available to anyone attending at the 7th Street Entry.
Annie Edson Taylor (22 October 1901)
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The most important song on the set was “On, Wisconsin”, a song that Bob Dylan started in 1961, but never finished. The lyric manuscript appeared in an auction, and Trapper Schoepp said to himself, “I needed to finish what was started.”
Schoepp wrote the melodies and filled in some missing lyrics, and sent it to Bob Dylan … and to Schoepp’s shock, Dylan approved it. That’s how “On, Wisconsin” was written, and it appeared on their previous album Primetime Illusion.
The real reason why Dylan is so important, is because Dylan inspired Schoepp to become a musician. While recovering from an injury, he heard Dylan’s “Hurricane” in the movie of the same name, as mentioned in Republican Eagle newspaper. It would’ve been absolutely terrible if Dylan hated the song.
Trapper Schoepp’s Siren Songs will be available to the public on April 21, on Grand Phony for the US market and Rootsy for the UK market.
Laura Hugo |
Becky Kapell |
Trapper Schoepp at 7th St Entry, Minneapolis (14 April 2023) |
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