{"id":73835,"date":"2019-08-13T09:53:05","date_gmt":"2019-08-13T14:53:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/?p=73835"},"modified":"2019-08-16T10:10:36","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T15:10:36","slug":"uwm-alum-resurrects-long-lost-bob-dylan-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uwm.edu\/news\/uwm-alum-resurrects-long-lost-bob-dylan-song\/","title":{"rendered":"51ÁÔÆæ alum resurrects long-lost Bob Dylan song"},"content":{"rendered":"

He may have been raised in Minnesota, but Bob Dylan had a fondness for Wisconsin. More than 50 years ago, he wrote out lyrics for a song, \u201cOn, Wisconsin,\u201d as a love letter to the state. Decades later, singer\/songwriter and 51ÁÔÆæ alumnus Trapper Schoepp<\/a> put Dylan\u2019s words to music and in July, released a music video<\/a> of the new\/old song featuring famous Wisconsinites.<\/p>\n

Schoepp, a 2013 graduate who majored in journalism, advertising and media studies, sat down recently to talk about about his and Dylan\u2019s labor of love.<\/p>\n

How did you come to write the music to Bob Dylan\u2019s lyrics?<\/strong><\/p>\n

One day I woke up and I\u2019m scrolling through Facebook and see the news article that would forever change my life. It was a\u00a0Rolling Stone\u00a0<\/em>article saying that a long-lost Dylan song about my beloved home state of Wisconsin was unearthed and put up for auction for $30,000. The photograph showed two pages of hastily scribbled lyrics. The pages were torn, sepia-toned, and the ink was fading, barely clinging onto the page after over half a century.<\/p>\n