Trapper Schoepp, a 28-year-old singer-songwriter from Wisconsin, got into music both by accident and because of one.
As a teenager, the Elsworth,Wisconsin native was a self-described "BMX bike rat," and he had more than his fair share of crashes.
One was particular serious: He herniated a disk in his back so badly that he needed surgery at the Mayo Clinic. His mother thought that maybe he needed a new hobby, one less like to lead to trips to the trauma unit. She gave him a guitar.
"It didn't take right away, until I was sitting in my parents' basement and I was watching this movie Hurricane and then there were those two chords," Schoepp told WCCO Radio's Dave Lee as he played the opening cords from the Bob Dylan song that gave the movie its name. "That moment, right there, for me, was when my whole life took on a new direction."
Schoepp is now an internationally touring musician who has released three studio ablums, and his relationship with Bob Dylan didn't stop at three. He helped Dylan finish a song about his home state, and he told Lee the amazing story of just how that managed that to happen.
But before you think WCCO Radio has gone all Wisco on you, we should note that Schoepp is a Vikings fan. "Keep that on the hush though, would you?" Schoepp asked Lee.
No problem, Trapper.
Listen to the full interview here: