Greg Trooper

Greg Trooper (January 13, 1956 – January 15, 2017) was an American singer-songwriter, whose songs have been recorded by many artists, including Steve Earle, Billy Bragg, and Vince Gill.

Early life, family and education

Trooper was born in Neptune Township, New Jersey, and raised in nearby Little Silver. He received his first guitar when he was a junior high school student. As a teenager in the early 1970s, Trooper would frequent the folk clubs of Greenwich Village, Manhattan, New York City, absorbing the burgeoning singer/songwriter and blues scene. In 1976, he moved to Austin, Texas, and then to Lawrence, Kansas, where he worked at a record store and the University of Kansas and attended classes on the 1991 album Don't Try This at Home. He also met songwriter/publisher Earl Shuman, who secured Trooper's first publishing deal with CBS Songs. Trooper's records caught the attention of Steve Earle,

Personal life and demise

Trooper resided in New York City and Nashville, Tennessee, as well as Texas and Kansas.

Discography We Won't Dance (as The Greg Trooper Band) (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) Incident On Willow Street (2013) Live at the Rock Room (2015)