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Band Bio |
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JimBo Trout & the Fishpeople
JimBo Trout & the Fishpeople are a high energy, good-time band from San Francisco that has been together since 1992. They perform a musical gumbo made up of bluegrass, ragtime, blues, western-swing, Appalachian, rock+roll, New Orleans, honky-tonk and more. But they are not a band that would let tradition stand in the way of a good time! JimBo Trout and the Fishpeople are known for their entertaining, energetic and danceable live shows.
JimBo Trout and the Fishpeople are fun for all ages. They perform at restaurants, nightclubs, cafes, weddings, dances, festivals, street fairs, retirement homes, and children's parties. The band has performed at many top clubs and festivals, including Hardly Strictly Bluegrass (2005), The Great American Music Hall, The Independent, Slim's, Bottom of the Hill, and the San Francisco Bluegrass & Old-Time Festival (eight years in a row). JimBo Trout and the Fish People have opened for Dr. John, Johnny Winter, The Freighthoppers, Wayne Hancock, The Gourds, Hot Club of Cowtown, The Squirrel Nut Zippers, Cake, Calexico, Doo Rag, The Iguanas, Riders In the Sky, Drew Emmitt, Dale Watson, Jeff Buckley and Southern Culture on the Skids among others.
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Recent Reviews |
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Bluegrass Breakdown - magazine of the Cal. Bluegrass Assn
The Atlas Cafe Bluegrass and Old-Time Jam in San Francisco |
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Now in its ninth year, the monthly jam at Atlas Cafe is getting to be a real institution in San Francisco. It was started by Jimbo Trout who does the booking for the other bluegrass and old-time acts in the cafe on Thursdays. His bandmate and friend Chad Manning was also involved in the beginning. The jam is hosted on the last Thursday of every month by Jimbo and the house band who will back up guest musicians, but on occasion, the entire band may be replaced for a couple of tunes when enough other musicians or another whole band shows up ... |
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Nascent - Bay area music
Jimbo Trout and the Fishpeople's Hillbilly Bebop-Boogie |
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Hillbilly Bebop-Boogie (aptly named no less), transports you onto a railcar somewhere in the Midwest complete with tramp traveling companions. Jimbo’s gravelly twang on lead vocals plays back and forth with Annie Staninec’s fast-fingered fiddle and Greg Laakso’s '20s-era jazz clarinet and sax, accented by flashes from a little xylophone here, a little cowbell there, and a little kazoo for good taste ... |
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Sacramento News Review
Hillbilly be-bop fun |
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Jimbo Trout and the Fishpeople (and yes, his name really is Jimbo Trout, and the only thing you can do with a name like that is get creative) play what we‘ve taken to calling “Americana” in this part of the country. |
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East Bay Express
Your Daily Lick: Jimbo Trout and the Fishpeople |
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Twang lovers couldn't ask for much more. The Bay Area band's first-rate bluegrass, blues, and honky-tonk covers come from a place where banjo, fiddle, and accordion were de rigueur - somewhere the modern world never crept. |
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Berkeley Daily Planet
Arts: Jimbo Trout Plays the Twang Cafe |
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“They’re a great amalgamation of classic Americana,” says Tom Wegner, host of the ongoing Americana music series Twang Cafe held monthly at Epic Arts. “They combine Appalachian bluegrass with Louisiana swamp music, Cajun, zydeco, Dixieland, ragtime and street-corner jugband.” |
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SFGate
Music: Fish Stories |
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Jimbo Trout and the Fish People feature clawhammer-style pickin' on original tunes like "Beer Bottle Breakdown," and their music has all the weird, retro, low-fidelity crust of Cap'n Beefheart or Rube Waddell. Plus they've got a washboard player and an upright bass. Turn back time and catch the gig ... |
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SFGate
Bluegrass Sprouts in Urban Landscape |
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Early this evening, a bunch of urban hillbillies will bang their battered mandolin and guitar cases through the double doors into the Atlas Cafe. They'll tune up, then turn and fill the room with the twang of bluegrass and old-timey string music. A house band opens with ``Cripple Creek.'' JimBo Trout high-notes the vocal.
``Yeehaw,'' yells a man who might be taken for a skateboard thrash punk ... |
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