THE FORTUNE TELLERS F.T.F.F. (Fortunes Told For Free) lp 1986Blue Condition / I Wanna Know / 32-20 / Gi-Me / Broke in the USA / Think Twice / No Fuss / Dreamin'/ Please Louise / Can't Control Myself / Bo Diddley Put the Rock in Rock'N'Roll (bonus track).
Produced by Dino Lee.
The Fortune Tellers: B. Kolliopoulos: vocals, guitar / M. Kolliopoulos: lead guitar, slide / M. Newberry: drums / V. Goetz: bass.
Interesting notes from the back cover:
The Fortune Tellers would like to say thanks to: Philippe Marcade, Steve Shevlin, Billy Pigeon, Don Ledy, Keith Ferguson, Kim Wilson, Jimmy Vaughan, Fran Cristina, James Arnold, Dino Lee, Antone's, Alejandro and Xavier Escovedo, Johnny Reno, Kevin Hinks, Jennifur and Gary Dickson, Bill Bateman, Dave Alvin, Rosco the Man, Shelby Hurt, Billy Shipley (Roadie No. 1), The Fortune Cookies, And our Friends in OKC, last but not least, the man who put the Rock in Rock and Roll, Mr. Bo Diddley!!!
The Fortune Tellers were an american band from Oklahoma. They recorded three albums from 1986 to 1990. "F.T.F.F. (Fortunes Told For Free)" in 1986, issued only on lp on the french label New Rose Records, "Musick Without Tears" one year later also on New Rose (lp only) . Both were recorded in Austin, Texas and produced by Dino Lee for the first & Mike Stewart for the second. Their third and last record, in 1990, was produced by their guitarist & singer B. Kalliopoulos and was called "Lively Up" (always on New Rose Records: cd exists). All are rare long out of print albums, but can be found on the net.The bonus track "Bo Diddley Put The Rock In Rock'n'roll" is extracted from the New Rose compilation: "Play New Rose for me".
"...The Fortune Tellers are playin' and makin' like lightnin' to that spot. One o' the select passel o' combos dishin' out a juicy original variant of the "rock" thang in these parts (the Lips, Defenestration and Doug Powell bein' most of the few others), The Fortune Tellers blast out a heady blend of ferocious r&b, psycho-whang guitarisma, and wild card Crowley, Beefheart and Coltrane influences..." J. Mooneyham (Source)
Check the Reverb Brothers, the new band of B. Kolliopoulos here !
Cd covers by Max!
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THE FORTUNE TELLERS "F.T.F.F." lp
cd covers by Max!
Sorry for the long delay but here's the first of the three lps by The Fortune Tellers !
Fantastique ! Encore un groupe sur New Rose que je ne connaissais pas !
J'ai aussi decouvert grace à un de tes anciens posts le fantastique album des Senders "Back to sender revisited"
Aurais tu aussi l'album Do the Senderthing et le rarissime album des Backbones ? Keep on rockin', brother!
On va passer les 2 autres lp des Fortune Tellers dans la quinzaine qui suit...
Désolé mais je n'ai pas le lp des Backbones par contre "Do The Sender Thing!" se trouve sur le blog "The Boogie Disease" :
http://boogiedisease.blogspot.com/
Thanks & keep on rockin' too!
Merci , je l'avais trouvé mais le lien est mort. Pas grave , je patienterai.
Pour en revenir à New Rose on ne remerciera jamais assez Patrick Mathé pour avoir sorti toutes ces petites merveilles à une époque difficile pour le style de musique que nous apprécions tant !
Au fait connais tu Mad Daddys et Bentbacked Tulips ? Qu'est ce que ça valait ? J'aimerais aussi découvrir Eddie Ray Porter dont on me disait beaucoup de bien à l'époque.Encore merci et félicitations pour ton blog , long may it run !
J'ai demandé à Ian de Boogie Disease un re-up pour le Senders!
Mad Daddys: premier mini lp produit par Lux Interior...moyen... crampsien mais sans l'aura !
The Bent-Backed Tulips:
en fait Dramarama sous pseudo Beatlesien ! ...
"The recording sessions for Stuck in "Wonderamaland" produced enough material for three albums. Instead of letting so many songs go to waste, Easdale & Carter decided to again try a foreign release. Thus, "Looking Through...", a 14-song album, was released in Europe by "The Bent-Backed Tulips," a pseudonym the band chose in reference to The Beatles "Looking Through..."
Eddie Ray Porter c'est bien, rock us, des gens de Green On Red sur ses albums... il me semble!
OK ENCORE MERCI !
Super Pochette Max ! Bon Travail Depuis des Années !
Papa Cool Aussi !
SUPER BLOG !!
Papa Cool Aussi ! ????????
Merci Th.
Mais C'est Pas Théo , C'est Manon !
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