Released on June 13, 2000, by Ruf Records, it features a recording of the group's performance at the Tampa Bay Blues Festival in Tampa Bay, Florida on March 26, 2000, during their tour in promotion of 1999's Livin' Every Day.

[2] In a review of the album for Blues Revue magazine, Art Tipaldi explained that due to travel difficulties, "this performance almost didn't happen", quoting Trout as recalling that "Two hours before we went on, I was in a restaurant trying to eat and I literally broke down.

[4] Blues Revue senior writer Art Tipaldi praised Live Trout as a display of "Trout at his very best", writing about the album: "Flailing up and down the fret board with the speed of a comet, Trout makes his guitar beg, plead, moan, yell, laugh, cry, coo, and whisper.

Through it all Trout's mesmerizing energy flies off the CD and Trout's band of Free Radicals prove song after song why they are one of the top blues rockin' bands in the world.

"[2] Reviewing the album for music website AllMusic, Hal Horowitz awarded Live Trout a rating of three out of five stars, describing it as "Filled with blistering, unrefined, and unadulterated blues-rock".