The Famous Frog Fiasco

Robert Trenchard was born and raised in rural Nebraska. He obtained a law degree from University of Texas Law School in 1972 after obtaining a degree in philosophy from the University of Nebraska in1969. A practicing trial lawyer for three decades in the small West Texas town of Kermit, he was selected as one of the Texas Super Lawyers by Texas Monthly magazine. His law career has been primarily devoted to suing oil companies while representing oilfield workers and their families. Trenchard paid his way through college working as a musician. He started playing professionally at age 16 and often worked six nights a week in jazz, rock and rhythm and blues bands while attending college. All of those bands were integrated, unusual for the 60's and he lived with a black family in Omaha the summer of 1967. He worked with top bands in the Midwest as well as Austin guitar legend Eric Johnson. He continued to work as a musician after getting a law degree until he was in his thirties, by then living in West Texas, not needing the money any more and not wanting to play any more company Christmas parties at the Inn of the Golden West in Odessa or any more high school reunions or Moose Lodge dances. After a hiatus of several years, in 1997 he was persuaded to join a blues band and eventually became the leader by default. Since then, Trenchard has started his own record company, Catfood Records. His bands have have toured coast to coast, toured Australia and recorded four cds, three of which made the top 25 for blues radio airplay including the critically acclaimed No Boundaries album of Johnny Rawls and the Rays released in 2005. Trenchard wrote all the songs for No Boundaries and was the principal songwriter on the other recordings. The Famous Frog Fiasco is his first book and will likely add to his reputation among those who know him as a jack of all trades, master of none.