Trout Fishing in America is a
folk-rock musical duo that performs
children's music as well as some music aimed at adults.The band is composed of
Keith Grimwood (upright bass, bass guitar, Clevinger bass, vocals) and
Ezra Idlet (acoustic guitar, electric guitar, electric banjo, 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 Keith and Ezra currently reside.
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