Trout Fishing in America (duo)

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, Texas, but moved to the Prairie Grove, Arkansas area in 1992. The two began recording music independently on Trout Records, and one of their songs, "When I Was a Dinosaur", received rotation on Dr. Demento's radio show.[3]

Trout Fishing in America has received much critical recognition for both family and adult music. This includes four Grammy Award nominations in the Best Musical Album for Children category: first for their 2001 release inFINity, then for their 2004 release Merry Fishes to All,[1] then for their 2006 live performance release My Best Day, and finally for their 2008 release Big Round World.[3]

In addition to their albums and tours, Trout Fishing in America conducts songwriting workshops.[3]

Trout Fishing in America has also written two children's books with accompanying CDs: My Name Is Chicken Joe[4] and Chicken Joe Forgets Something Important.[5] Both books were published by Canadian publisher The Secret Mountain,[6] and illustrated by Stéphane Jorisch.

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.[7]

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) [8]

• Trout Fishing in America's official website
• Interview of Trout Fishing in America by Renée Montagne for National Public Radio, Jan. 9, 2004.
• Interview of Trout Fishing in America on The Front Row KUHF Houston Public Radio, June 2, 2009.