Greg Trooper

Born in Neptune, NJ January 13, 1956, Greg Trooper is a singer/songwriter whose songs have been recorded by many artists including Steve Earle

Steve Earle

Stephen Fain "Steve" Earle is an American singer-songwriter known for his rock and Texas Country as well as his political views. He is also a producer, author, a political activist, and an actor, and has written and directed a play....

, Billy Bragg

Billy Bragg

Stephen William Bragg , better known as Billy Bragg, is an English alternative rock musician and left-wing activist. His music blends elements of folk music, punk rock and protest songs, and his lyrics mostly deal with political or romantic themes...

, and Vince Gill

Vince Gill

Vincent Grant "Vince" Gill is an American neotraditional country singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He has achieved commercial success and fame both as frontman to the country rock band Pure Prairie League in the 1970s, and as a solo artist beginning in 1983, where his talents as a...

. As a teenager in the early 1970s, Trooper would frequent the folk clubs of Greenwich Village

Greenwich Village

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taking in the burgeoning singer/songwriter and blues scene. In 1976 he moved to Austin, Texas

Austin, Texas

Austin is the capital city of the U.S. state of :Texas and the seat of Travis County. Located in Central Texas on the eastern edge of the American Southwest, it is the fourth-largest city in Texas and the 14th most populous city in the United States. It was the third-fastest-growing large city in...

and then to Lawrence, KS where he entered college at the University Of Kansas

University of Kansas

The University of Kansas is a public research university and the largest university in the state of Kansas. KU campuses are located in Lawrence, Wichita, Overland Park, and Kansas City, Kansas with the main campus being located in Lawrence on Mount Oread, the highest point in Lawrence. The...

and continued to hone his guitar, singing, and songwriting skills.

Career

Greg Trooper moved to New York City for the '80s and part of the '90s, where he formed The Greg Trooper Band along with Larry Campbell

Larry Campbell (musician)

Larry Campbell is a multi-instrumentalist who plays many stringed instruments in genres including country, folk, blues, and rock...

on guitar, Greg Shirley on bass and Walter Thompson on drums. During this time he recorded his first two records: We Won't Dance and the critically acclaimed Everywhere produced by Stewart Lerman

Stewart Lerman

Stewart Lerman is a Bronx born, New York-based music producer, recording engineer, who has worked with The Roches, Antony and the Johnsons, Jules Shear, Marshall Crenshaw, Crash Test Dummies, Nellie McKay, Loudon Wainwright, Black 47, David Johanson, David Byrne, Willie Nile, Soulive, Darden Smith,...

. He also met songwriter/publisher Earl Shuman who secured Trooper’s first publishing deal with CBS Songs. The records caught the attention of Earle—who recorded Trooper's "Little Sister." In the early '90s, Trooper met fellow New Jerseyite and E Street Band

E Street Band

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bassist Garry Tallent

Garry Tallent

Garry Wayne Tallent , sometimes billed as Garry W. Tallent, is an American musician and record producer, best known for being the longtime bass player in Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band....

, who, like Trooper, would move to Nashville. Tallent produced Trooper's 1996 album Noises in the Hallway and released it on his D'Ville Record Group label. Popular Demons followed in 1998 on Koch Records

Koch Records

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produced by Buddy Miller

Buddy Miller

Buddy Miller is a country singer, songwriter, musician, recording artist and producer, currently living in Nashville, Tennessee...

. After the release of that album, he signed with Nashville indie Eminent Records, which released Straight Down Rain in 2001. 2002 saw the release of Trooper’s first live record Between A House And A Hard Place – Live At Pine Hill Farm with Eric “Roscoe” Ambel

Eric Ambel

Eric Ambel is a New York City-based guitarist and record producer, originally from Batavia, Illinois. He has worked with a wide range of artists including Steve Earle, the Yayhoos, Del Lords, The Bottle Rockets, Joan Jett, Mojo Nixon, Blood Oranges, Blue Mountain, Freedy Johnston and Mary Lee's...

at the controls. He moved on to the esteemed Sugar Hill Records

Sugar Hill Records

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label in 2003 with the release of Floating followed by the Dan Penn

Dan Penn

Dan Penn is an American singer, songwriter, record producer and sometime guitar player who co-wrote many soul hits of the 1960s including "Dark End of the Street" and "Do Right Woman, Do Right Man" and "Out of Left Field" & "Cry Like A Baby"...

produced Make It Through This World in 2005. Back Shop Live, another live recording, was released in 2006. In 2008 Trooper moved back to New York City

New York City

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and in 2009 put out the previously unreleased 1995 recording The Williamsburg Affair. In 2011 he released Upside-Down Town on 52 Shakes Records.

Discography

We Won't Dance (1986)
Everywhere (1992)
Noises in the Hallway (1996)
Popular Demons (1998)
Straight Down Rain (2001)
Between a House and a Hard Place: Live at Pine Hill Farm (2002)
Floating (2003)
Make It Through This World (2005)
The BackShop Live (2006)
The Williamsburg Affair (2009)
Upside-Down Town (2010)

External links

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