[2016-04-01] Trapper Schoepp "Rangers & Valentines" produced by Brendan Benson (Xtra Mile)

Linda · **Posted:** Sat Jan 23, 2016 1:16 pm

Description
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 romantics, drifters and dreamers, soldiers and schemers populate his songs, their tragedies and comedies, their lives and deaths recalled in his finely-etched musical vignettes. Rangers & Valentines follows his critically-acclaimed 2012 debut showcase, Run Engine, Run, with his band The Shades. The 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 work as "story songs that explore and explode the conventions of rock and roll."

On the new album, Schoepp defies the limitations of the standard-issue Americana platter by hopping genres – you’ll 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 troubadour’s 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, Rangers & Valentines finds the teller of tales (both tall and true) handling vocals, guitar and harmonica. On the recording, Schoepp is aided by an array of estimable musicians including his brother, songwriting partner and musical-foil-since-birth, Tanner Schoepp (providing bass guitar and vocal harmonies), Steve Selvidge (The Hold Steady), John Davis (Superdrag), the McCrary Sisters, and even comedian and WTF podcaster Marc Maron chips in on background vocals and lead guitar.

Tracklist
1. Mono Pt. II
2. Tornado Alley
3. Ogallala
4. Ballad of Olof Johnson
5. Talking Girlfriend Blues
6. Settlin’ or Sleepin’ Around
7. Lost Cowboy
8. For Jonny
9. Don’t Go
10. Dream

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B01AY6VPQW/?tag=imwan-20

Linda · **Posted:** Sat Jan 23, 2016 1:22 pm

[2016-04-01] Trapper Schoepp "Rangers & Valentines" produced by Brendan Benson (Xtra Mile)

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