Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Trapper Schoepp Band
A Change in the Weather
Trapper Schoepp and his band mates look too young to have mid-’90s nostalgia, but the Milwaukee quintet’s A Change in the Weather makes
it sound that way. Schoepp and his fellow musicians would have sounded
right at home back when the earnest aesthetics of Hootie and the
Blowfish, Sister Hazel and Blues Traveler wended their way into the Top
40. But these guys also bring a jamband-in-check feel to the earnest
thoughtfulness, a feel that comes from being in one’s late-teens and
the ensuing early jabs at figuring out the world. So if Schoepp’s
overseriousness occasionally drags down his cohorts’ rootsy ramblings,
that’s not to say that they’re incapable of compelling, less downer
music once they can crack a smile—and have the world figured out a
little more.



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