This is New Wisco Weekend. I'm Lisa Hale, your host. We love wrapping up the show with a musical guest, and this week is no different.
Trappership appeared on Civic Media's Nightlife with Pete Schwabba, and here's a little bit of that interview and a couple of his songs.
Let's start with your new album, Osborne. It was just released a couple months ago. I love the story behind the album. Can you give us a little background?
I was in a rehab facility in Minnesota, and I was in the Osborne unit, and low and behold, Ozzy Osborne had attended that same rehab facility.
So I wrote some songs when I was in there, kind of reflecting on the Ross Day I was in at the moment, and some of the songs were born out of the Osborne unit.
The song we're going to hear in a couple of minutes is called Loaded, and it's a great song. Tell us a little bit about the inspiration behind that, even though you kind of just alluded to it a little bit.
I think in my 20s, I struggled a bit as a result of having spinal surgery. I got, you know, pretty dependent or addicted as they say on these meds.
I kind of just looked at these medicines in the pill bottles, and I kind of joked in my head that they were like kind of loaded guns in a way.
And I kind of thought of the prescriptions that way much later.
Well, without further ado, let's hear this is off the album Osborne, Trappership's latest work, and it's called Loaded, and it is a great song.
I went to the doctor and the doctor said to me, do you, do you, do you, do you make any money, and know I heard your song on the radio, but one that starts fast, my ends kind of slow, but you ain't giving me nothing.
You ain't giving me nothing, but you're more than coming, you ain't giving me nothing.
You ain't giving me nothing, but you're more than coming.
One, two, three, four.
Thank you.
You ain't giving me nothing, but you're more than coming.
You ain't giving me nothing, but you're more than coming.
You ain't giving me nothing, but you're more than coming.
You ain't giving me nothing, but you're more than coming.
That was loaded. A great song by my current guest, Mr. Trappership,
a Milwaukee-based singer-songwriter. I'm sure most of the people know the story behind
this and how you kind of found this song and finished it, but it was a song written by Bob Dylan,
but not quite finished like 50 years ago. Can you tell us a little bit about that process,
how you found the song and what made you want to finish it?
Well, you know, Bob Dylan was one of my childhood heroes for one. He's sort of
invented what I do in a sense. And in 1960, on the day he was recording his first album,
Hero A Song, just called Wisconsin, and it was like four verses, and it did not make the cut on
that first album. Fifty-seven years later, I was scrolling to the internet and his old roommate
had posted just this sheet of lyrics as like a relic, you know, a novelty item for auction $30,000.
And I thought, well, it's sort of in the tradition of folk music to sort of pick up where one
generation has left off. So I took it upon myself without his permission to finish the song,
so I set it to music. We added a chorus. We put it out there on the internet, and eventually,
your own song took notice, and Billboard took notice. You eventually took notice, and Bob Dylan's
lawyers took notice, too. And it was good, though, they said, how would you feel about, you know,
publishing this song with Bob Dylan for the very first time? And I said, I feel it really
get about that.
And I'm going back to my hometown. I'm leaving right away. I'm headed to Wisconsin
2,000 miles to go. Madison Milwaukee sets my heart a glow. I'm a coming to that state and
my heart's beating fast. And I'll jerk my banjo gently. Twiddle my mustache on Wisconsin.
On Wisconsin.
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Wisco Weekend is written by Terry Barr and Lisa Hale, directed and produced by Lisa Hale.
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