Greg Trooper at Theatre 80, East Village 6/19/2016.

They Call Me Hank

09/28/2014, Greg Trooper at the Catfish Concert Series.

Pancho and Lefty (Townes Van Zandt)

Greg Trooper at another fabulous house concert, Oriol & Natalia's Living Room, Badalona, 02/04/2012.

We Won't Dance

Jonell Mosser with Greg Trooper at some lucky guy's backyard party in Houston, Texas, 2009.

Angel from Montgomery (John Prine)

Another favorite from the Straight Down Rain album.  This is recorded live at Pine Hill Farm, Durham, North Carolina, on 06/17/2000, available from Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Between-House-Hard-Place-Pinehill/dp/B003N8EW78 .

Once And For All

Greg playing this song from 2003 album Floating, with guitarist Rick Poss, Jack Saunders, & Rick Richards, at the McGonigel's Mucky Duck in Houston, 01/19/2014.

The Road So Long

Rare demo version of the song in rough sequence, recorded in 1995.  The song eventually appeared on 2009 album The Williamsburg Affair as "Catherine" with a C.

Katherine Don't Slip (demo)

Greg really had a magic hand in dealing with intricate relationship subjects in his songs.  This one is about two broken-hearted people, but you can't even tell from its cheery melody.  'Angel' is a song for that special smile / angel you long to see every morning -- that secret sunshine peeking out of your cloudiest days.

Originally recorded in 1995, this song was eventually published in the 2009 album The Williamsburg Affair.

Angel (demo)

Brownsville Girl

Recently the great organization Songwriting with Soldiers posted a nice write-up about Greg’s collaborations with SW:S.  This project had been Greg’s passion for years but I almost missed it.  So thanks so much for SW:S’s reminder.

One of the very wonderful things that Greg did was that his songs were often written with such humility, empathy, and sincerity.  As you can gather from this SW:S post, http://www.songwritingwithsoldiers.org/one-songwriter-countless-connections/ , Greg not only strived to make the human connections through his songwriting, he also personally reached out as much as he could.  From my few brief personal encounters with Greg (and I have certainly said this many times), Greg was just a really wonderful person to be around with.

So here I am sharing a nice tune that he co-wrote with kids from a military family in 2015.  Greg sounded a little different in this track but there are some signature Troop-ness to it I’d say that it’s definitely Greg.  Most importantly, if you like the track it can be purchased here: https://songwritingwithsoldiers.bandcamp.com/track/throw-a-rock .

Photo by SW:S.

SW:S Retreat - May 2015

Throw A Rock

Bob from the MTV Unplugged outtakes, 11/17/1994.

Another Unplugged

I Want You

Bruce does 'Galveston Bay,' a song about a Texas fisherman from his Steinbeck-inspired storytelling album The Ghost of Tom Joad, on 5/21/1997 at Teatro Verdi, Florence.

Galveston Bay

Bob back at the Beacon Theatre, NYC, 11/20/2017 -- a new Thanksgiving tradition!

Full Moon And Empty Arms

Peter And The Wolf Excerpt(arr. Oliver Nelson)

Greg Trooper (January 13, 1956 – January 15, 2017) was an American singer-songwriter.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Trooper

Greg was 100% the real deal.  He never received a Grammy or an AMA or a CMA or anything like that.  But who the f*ck cares.  Awards are so overrated.

For those who just caught on, here is a nice profile of Greg and his solid body of work from a while back: http://nodepression.com/article/greg-trooper-new-jersey-yankee-king-acuffs-court .

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