Author Kevin Courrier is currently completing a book about Trout Mask Replica which should be published later this year.

The book will investigate some possible sources for the ideas which were realised in the making of the album. According to Continuum, the publisher, these include Walt Whitman, Gregory Corso, Charley Patton, Howlin' Wolf, Ornette Coleman and Richard Berry and the Coasters.

Continuum's website says that this book will illustrate, "how Trout Mask Replica, far from being an arcane specimen of the avant-garde, was instead a defiantly original declaration of the American imagination."

Kevin's Courrier's previous books were about Randy Newman and Frank Zappa. Publication date for this book, titled Trout Mask Replica, is expected to be May 1st.

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