Trapper Schoepp & The Shades

Trapper Schoepp & The Shades
Background information
Origin Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States
Genres Rock, Americana
Years active 2008-present
Labels SideOneDummy Records
Good Land Records
Associated acts Limbeck, Tommy Stinson, The Benjamins, Midnight Reruns
Website http://www.trapperschoepp.com/
Members Trapper Schoepp
Tanner Schoepp
Dustin Dobernig
Jon Phillip
Past members David Boigenzahn
Brady Murphy
Sahan Jaysuriya
Eli Judge
Graham Hunt
Gina Romantini
David Dulak

Trapper Schoepp & The Shades are an American rock band from Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

The band released their national debut, Run, Engine, Run, on SideOneDummy Records in September 2012. Rolling Stone premiered the album's title track, Run, Engine, Run, on September 20. The song, a tribute to the Schoepps' grandpa and his 1964 Mercedes-Benz, was also featured on the NPR's Car Talk and Michael Feldman's Whad'Ya Know?.[1]

Since the album's initial release on Good Land Records in November 2011, the band has toured alongside The Wallflowers, Old 97's, The Jayhawks, Soul Asylum, Tommy Stinson, Social Distortion, The Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band, Frank Turner, and Cory Chisel and The Wandering Sons.

Background

In 2007, brothers Trapper and Tanner Schoepp released an album entitled A Change in the Weather under the name Trapper Schoepp Band. The album was described by Madison's Isthmus (newspaper) as being "simple poignancy from a songwriting talent in the making."[2]

The brothers and high school friend David Boigenzahn supported the album by performing at coffeehouses and small clubs in the metropolitan area of Minneapolis, Minnesota, as well as a monthly gig at the Blue Moon cafe in Red Wing, Minnesota.

Upon moving to Milwaukee, Wisconsin for college from their hometown of Ellsworth,Wisconsin, brothers Trapper and Tanner Schoepp formed the band under the moniker the Shades with Boigenzahn and Brady Murphy. The band met drummer Sahan Jayasuria at Atomic Records who filled in for Murphy after the release of 2009's Lived and Moved. Milwaukee music critic, Evan Rytlewski, called Schoepp "a distinguished songwriter, with a knack for bold sentiments and an ear for clean melodies, and he’s self-aware enough to understand the irony of a 19-year-old titling his second album Lived and Moved."[3]

The band met Jon Phillip, drummer for Orange County rock band Limbeck and Tommy Stinson, after a performance at a local Record Store Day party. Phillip joined the Shades as a full-time member and would later release Run, Engine, Run on his label Good Land Records. Schoepp met Graham Hunt in a rock music history course at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, who performed lead guitar on the album.

Run, Engine, Run was recorded in the Bay View neighborhood of Milwaukee three weeks after Schoepp underwent spinal decompression surgery at the Mayo Clinic. The injury, which stemmed from a BMX accident 7 years earlier, sparked Schoepp's interest in music and proved to be the inspiration for the song "Pins and Needles."

Good Land Records released the album on CD. The album was met with local acclaim and not long after it took home Radio Milwaukee's Album of the Year award, the pressing sold out and was headed for a wider audience.[4]

Geoff Sanoff remixed the album, and was released internationally by SideOneDummy Records on September 25, 2012. Trapper said of the signing: “SideOneDummy’s roster represents so many different aspects of American music, which is why I think it’s a good fit for the Shades. The label has consistently released records from bands that don’t neatly fit into one genre categorization. Folks who have listened to our records or come to our shows know that we don’t really, either.”[5]

The band gained unprecedented exposure touring with The Wallflowers for thirteen shows in October–December 2012.[6] Wallflowers' keyboardist Rami Jaffee sat in with the band nightly on keyboards and Hammond organ.[7] The tour ended in Toronto with the Shades assuming vocals on a Wallflowers-backed cover of "The Weight" by Canadian-American group The Band.[8] The band has continued as an on and off supporting act for the Wallflowers through the summer of 2013.

In March 2013, the band performed at SXSW[9] and released a music video for their album's first single, "Tracks."

In the fall of 2013, Trapper performed as a solo artist supporting Rhett Miller, as well as a nationwide tour with Warner Bros. recording artist, Ewert & the Two Dragons.

Discography

Studio albums

Compilations

External links

References

  1. ↑ http://www.notmuch.com/wyk/trapper-schoepp-and-shades
  2. ↑ http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=24850
  3. ↑ http://expressmilwaukee.com/article-9734-trapper-schoepp:-lived-and-moved,-ready-for-more.html
  4. ↑ http://www.radiomilwaukee.org/music/soundboard/music/and-winners-5th-annual-radiomilwaukee-music-awards-are
  5. ↑ http://www.avclub.com/milwaukee/articles/trapper-schoepp-and-the-shades-sign-to-sideonedumm,82606/
  6. ↑ http://www.avclub.com/milwaukee/articles/trapper-schoepp-and-the-shades-look-back-on-their,83586/
  7. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rmh1YGU1P50&list=PLJ6D_PQtF5r6CybJ0sDkQ59QpiQxJL_2r&index=4
  8. ↑ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dE3eii8SknM
  9. ↑ http://schedule.sxsw.com/2013/events/event_MS23273