Listen today! Trapper Schoepp releases new album 'Siren Songs'

Milwaukee-based singer-songwriter Trapper Schoepp released his new studio album Siren Songs via Grand Phony (US) / Rootsy (EU). The new album arrives on the heels of his new single and music video for “Good Graces,” which was recently featured on Apple Music Country’s Record Bin Radio. Across 12 songs that masterfully run the gamut from soaring roots-rock to swampy blues and charming Irish folk, Schoepp showcases his musical versatility like never before with this nautical collection of timeless folklore.

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To date, Siren Songs has already garnered praise from American Songwriter, Under The Radar, No Depression, Glide Magazine, Americana UK, The Boot, The Indy Review and the Americana Music Association. The new record finds Schoepp collaborating with John Jackson (The Jayhawks, Ray Davies) and Patrick Sansone (Wilco) who produced these sessions at Cash’s historic Cash Cabin in Hendersonville, TN. On these storied grounds, the trio was blessed to record with instruments ranging from Cash’s 1930s Martin guitar – which was used on the swamp-rock highlight “Devil’s Kettle” – to June Carter Cash’s Steinway piano and an old railroad spike.

Listen to Siren Songs

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Siren Songs opens with the driving “Cliffs of Dover”, an anti-war anthem that arrived with a music video directed by Joseph Cash. Elsewhere, Schoepp pays respect to Mother Nature and Irish folk music on the jovial “Secrets of the Breeze,” which featured a dazzling performance from the Milwaukee Irish Dance Studio in its festive video. Hailed as “a master storyteller” by HuffPost and beloved for his “rootsy, cinematic rock that charms as it soars” (NPR Music), Schoepp’s new album Siren Songs is his strongest collection of songs to date, steeped in a sonic palette of traditional American music while giving it new life. Recently, Schoepp stopped by New York’s WFUV to share insight on Siren Songs during a show-stopping Cavalcade Session.

Folks may recognize Schoepp when he became the youngest musician to share a co-writing credit with Bob Dylan on a long-lost song called “On, Wisconsin” in 2019. After coming across a previously unseen lyric sheet from Dylan’s early recording sessions, Schoepp seized the opportunity to put music to these words about his home state. Fortunately, Dylan approved to jointly publish the song, garnering acclaim from Billboard, Rolling Stone and more. Now, in a full-circle moment, Schoepp is featured on the Siren Songs album cover posing in front of the same pond where Cash would read and dispose of letters sent to him by Dylan, honoring a sacred kinship that started in the ‘60s.