[2][3] As a teenager in the early 1970s, Trooper would frequent the folk clubs of Greenwich Village taking in the burgeoning singer/songwriter and blues scene.

He also met songwriter/publisher Earl Shuman, who secured Trooper's first publishing deal with CBS Songs.

Tallent produced Trooper's 1996 album Noises in the Hallway and released it on his D'Ville Record Group label.

He moved on to the esteemed Sugar Hill Records label in 2003 with the release of Floating followed by the Dan Penn-produced Make It Through This World in 2005.

In 2008, Trooper moved back to New York City and in 2009 put out the previously unreleased 1995 recording The Williamsburg Affair.