Greg Trooper

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 as he also continued honing his guitar, singing, and songwriting skills. ==Career==

While living in Kansas, Trooper performed at clubs, often with a set list heavy with Van Morrison songs. 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) ==References==