Trout Fishing's Merry Fishes to All Wins Grammy Nomination

Merry Fishes to All, the new holiday CD from Trout Fishing in America, has won a 2005 Grammy Award nomination in the Best Musical Album for Children category. This is the second Grammy nomination for the zany duo from Arkansas

Prairie Grove, AR (PRWEB) December 10, 2004

Something’s Definitely Fishy as Trout Fishing in America Celebrates the Holidays. Merry Fishes to All, the bright new holiday CD release from Trout Fishing in America, has been nominated for a Grammy Award, according to news announced today by the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences. Merry Fishes To All was selected as one of five nominees in the “Best Musical Album for Children” category (Field 18, Category 74). The award ceremony will be broadcast on February 13, 2005 on CBS TV at 8:00 p.m. ET/PT; more information about the Grammy Awards is at http://www.grammy.com.

Merry Fishes to All has already angled other national awards and acclaim. Disney’s Family Fun magazine called it “the Year’s Best Christmas CD,” saying that the songs are “so fresh they practically wiggle.” Ben Fong-Torres wrote in Parade magazine about its “comic sugarplums such as ‘I Got a Cheese Log.’” Child and Chicago Parent magazines chose Merry Fishes as one of the best holiday CDs this year, and it also won a Parents’ Choice award. Trout Fishing in America’s holiday songs are also featured in a current National Public Radio program called “NPR presents: A Holiday Folk Music Tour with Judy Collins.”

This is the second Grammy nomination for Trout Fishing in America, also known as guitarist Ezra Idlet and bassist Keith Grimwood. For more than 25 years they have been playing music that delights children and astounds parents.

Merry Fishes to All expertly snares the charm, humor, and occasional pathos that characterize the music of Trout Fishing, one of the most engaging and musically accomplished groups around. This timeless collection presents a dozen mostly original holiday songs—each one as unique as a snowflake but paradoxically as familiar as a cheese log. Merry Fishes was recorded with longtime producer and multi-instrumentalist Fred Bogert, drummer Chris Munson and saxophonist Bob Bowers near Nashville this past April as an unseasonal snowstorm blanketed the world outside.

The duo’s new holiday spawn finds Keith and Ezra again casting a broad musical net. “Chocolate Christmas” and “Santa Brought Me Clothes” are New Orleans-flavored confections—nuttier than pralines and just as delicious. “I Got a Cheese Log” is rolled in a jazzy accompaniment that is as sharp and pungent as an aged Gouda—and just as Gouda for you. And snowfall always sends the Trouts scurrying for cover into the Mel Torme Memorial Lounge, as “Snow is Falling” and “Snow Day” attest.

Lyrically, the songs on Merry Fishes swim proudly against the current, reaching new (and ever-deeper) thematic waters. “My First Christmas” celebrates—in typical Trout Fishing fashion—the odd importance new parents place on their child’s first Christmas and hilariously documents the pandemonium a “zero” year old brings to the yuletide celebration—truly, a child’s Christmas in wails. “You Gotta Get Up” touchingly captures the impatient near-panic of a child desperately pleading with sleeping parents that “you gotta get up, you gotta get up, you gotta get up, it’s Christmas mornin’.” Incredibly, the Trouts are even able to wring some genuine poignancy and melancholy from that most abused of holiday traditions, the “Christmas Letter.”

About Trout Fishing in America

Trout Fishing in America is a nationally acclaimed performing and recording group based in northwest Arkansas. While they have a strong following for their sophisticated repertoire of music for grownups, the group has also garnered national awards for its five previous “family” recordings. The duo has been featured on the Today Show and has performed at the White House. Trout Fishing in America has earned over 20 national awards and honors, including a Grammy nomination and several “Best of the Year” accolades and Gold awards from Parents’ Choice and the National Parenting Publications. Billboard magazine notes their “rare musicianship, humor and inspiration.” Chicago Parent suggests, “If you haven’t heard them yet, it’s time to do some trolling.”

Keith and Ezra plan a typically energetic performance itinerary throughout the winter. Catch them at a city near you by checking out their schedule at http://www.troutmusic.com. Also visit the TFIA website for secure online ordering of Merry Fishes to All including digital downloads of all of the tracks. To order by phone and get more fish facts, call 1-888-HEY-TFIA (888-439-8342). Suggested retail price is $14.98.

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