Big Trout Radio

Here It Is!!

14 songs from the Big Trout Radio archives, performed by Artie Traum, Tom Akstens and Chris Shaw, with the help of some good friends and super pickers.

By now you’ve heard about it . . . the tiny 10 watt radio station in the mountains of trout country that piggybacked onto a 50,000 watt, clear-channel signal and became an overnight sensation from Montauk to Missoula.

Carlton Munson, the station’s eccentric owner, has played only songs about fish and fishing since he assembled his mail-order transmitter and went on the air in 1959. "I only care about two things, " he explains, "Good fishing and good music. It's all trout, all the time." Since the FCC crackdown, Carlton is back transmitting to a four-mile radius. But he's graciously allowed us to go into the archives of Big Trout Radio and bring some of his favorite music to his many new-found listeners. So slip into some comfortable waders, kick back and enjoy! [* click to hear excerpt]

1. I'm A Goin' Fishin'
2. Big Old Trout
3. Fishin's Just a Waste of Time*
4. Fishin' Blues*
5. The Yellow Mailbox
6. Dumb Luck
7. Ain't No Sure Thing

8. On The Esopus
9. Walter*
10. Hook and Line
11. My Old Cane Pole
12. Crawdad
13. Gone Fishin' Today
14. Leave This World Behind

BIG TROUT RADIO
Songs About Fishing 0315-2

TOM AKSTENS, CHRIS SHAW & ARTIE TRAUM

With friends and special guests:

Cindy Cashdollar - Robbie Dupree - John Kirk
Debbie Lan - Tony Markellis - Abby Newton
John Sebastian - Happy Traum

Additional Credits:

Big Trout Radio on the Air:
   Debbie Lan: vocalist
   Dorothy Cowfield and Tom Mark: announcers

Produced by Big Trout Radio and Tom Mark

Recorded by Tom Mark at The Make Believe Ballroom,
West Shokan, NY

Cover Illustration by Elwood Smith
Graphic Design by Susanne Murtha,
    APROPOS Design Solutions

Information:
Twining Tree, PO Box 609, Averill Park NY 12018
518 674-8282

Big Trout Radio plays Taylor guitars and Elixir strings

© 2003 Twining Tree Records
All rights reserved

A REVIEW - Ania Laver, Chronogram:

Fixin on goin' fishin', but don't have the ditties to draw you to the water? Just cast the twangy, toe-tapping, trout-tickling tunes of Big Trout Radio into your CD player to be lured to your reel. Recorded exclusively for the fishing enthusiast at Make Believe Ballroom in West Shokan, this compilation was born from the apocryphal story of a 10-watt radio station in the Adirondacks that exclusively transmits fishing tunes to a four-mile radius. But something is a little fishy. Artie Traum, Chris Shaw and Tom Asktens pulled together 14 banjo-playing, mandolin-picking tunes of country, blues, ragtime and swing, enlisting the help of John Sebastian, Abby Newton, Happy Traum, Tony Markellis, John Kirk, Debbie Lan, Cindy Cashdollar and Robbie Dupree on a few tracks. Even if its not quite time to hang out that "Gone Fishing" sign on your office door, the happy harmonies on this album will have you feelling like you're sailing on the biggest river of your dreams.