Trout Fishing in America (duo) facts for kids
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Trout Fishing in America
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Keith Grimwood (left) and Ezra Idlet (right), April 2019.
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| Origin | Houston, Texas, United States |
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| Years active | 1979–present |
| Labels | Trout Records |
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Trout Fishing in America is an American musical duo which performs folk rock and children's music. The duo is composed of Keith Grimwood (bass guitar, upright bass, vocals) and Ezra Idlet (guitars, banjo, bouzouki, vocals). They took their name from the novel Trout Fishing in America by Richard Brautigan. The duo has released multiple albums through their own Trout Music label.
Musical style
A 1995 article in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch described the duo's music as "not pedantic, nor does it pander to children, but merely deals with topics that kids can relate to or those that will make them laugh." Grimwood noted in the same article that the duo chose to record more children's music because of teachers who would attend their earlier shows and encourage the duo to play for their students.
Discography
All releases under the Trout Records label.
- You Bore Me to Death! (LP only), 1979
- Hot to Trout (cassette and 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 (Family), 2004
- My Best Day (Family), 2006
- Who Knows What We Might Do, 2007
- Big Round World (Family), 2008
- Lookin' at Lucky, 2010
- Rubber Baby Buggy Bumpers (Family), 2013
- The Strangest Times, 2017
- The Dusty Dozen, 2018 (A selection of previously released material from 1979 to 1988 albums)
