Trout Fishing in America (band)
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Trout Fishing in America is a two-man folk-rock musical group that performs children's music as well as some music aimed at adults. The band, which includes Keith Grimwood (upright bass, bass guitar, Clevinger bass, vocals) and Ezra Idlet (acoustic guitar, electric guitar, vocals), took their name from the novel Trout Fishing in America by Richard Brautigan. Grimwood attended the University of Houston and played in the Houston Symphony Orchestra after graduation, whereas Idlet left a college basketball team to pursue rock and roll. The two met while performing together in the Houston-based folk-rock band Wheatfield, later renamed St. Elmo's Fire. When St. Elmo's Fire dissolved in 1979, Grimwood and Idlet formed Trout Fishing in America on the streets of Santa Cruz, California. The band was based for many years in Houston, but moved to the Prairie Grove, Arkansas area in 1992, where they currently reside.
Their song "When I Was a Dinosaur" became a favorite of Dr. Demento, who played it frequently on his radio program.
Trout Fishing in America has received much critical recognition for their family music as well as their adult music including three National Indie Awards, numerous Parents Choice awards and two Grammy nominations, one for their 2002 release inFINity and one for their 2004 release Merry Fishes to All.
[edit] Discography
(All releases under the Trout Music label)
- You Bore Me to Death! (LP only), 1979
- Hot to Trout (LP only), 1983
- Yes, the Fish Music (cassette only), 1987
- Stark Raving Trout (cassette only), 1988
- Truth is Stranger than Fishin, 1990
- Big Trouble (Family), 1991
- Over the Limit, 1992
- Mine! (Family), 1994
- Who are these People?, 1994
- Reel Life, 1996
- My World (Family), 1997
- Family Music Party (Family), 1998
- Closer to the truth, 1999
- InFINity (Family), 2001
- It's a Puzzle (Family), 2003
- Merry Fishes to All, 2004
- My Best Day, 2006
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