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Date: Saturday, February 15

Trapper Schoepp‘s music and writing is well represented in the words below, but they just don’t convey the passion, intensity and energy behind Trapper’s live performance. I’ve seen him play three or four times since he last played at Molly’s House Concerts, and he truly does keep getting better and better. At one of the performances, Trapper opened for Alejandro Escovedo, who invited Trapper to join him in the encore, which was Neil Young’s “Hurricane.” Trapper delivered a blistering guitar solo and commanded the stage. Don’t miss him in his solo acoustic show – I’m certain he’ll perform with just as much energy, and you’ll be swept away!

“What’s most important to me is to be a link in the chain of folks singers before and after my time,” Trapper Schoepp says in light of his new album, Siren Songs. Recorded at Johnny Cash’s Cash Cabin in Hendersonville, TN, Trapper continues down the trail trod by his musical heroes. In 2019, the Milwaukee singer-songwriter published a long lost song with Bob Dylan called “On, Wisconsin” – making him the youngest musician to share a co-writing credit with the Nobel Prize laureate. The song led to a #1 trending article in Rolling Stone and over a hundred tour dates worldwide.

Most recently, Trapper is featured on the Siren Songs album cover posing in the same pond where Johnny Cash would read and dispose of letters sent to him by Bob Dylan, protecting a private correspondence and kinship that started in the sixties. At these storied grounds, Trapper recorded his strongest collection of songs steeped in traditional American and Irish folk music – aided by producers John Jackson (Jayhawks, Ray Davies) and Patrick Sansone (Wilco). Listen to Cliffs of Dover, and RSVP for Trapper Schoepp on Saturday, February 15.

Artist website: Trapper Schoepp