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FACTS:

MUSICAL STYLE : Blues
ONE LINE SLOGAN : Northern Flat Land Grooves
RESIDENCE : Copenhagen, Denmark - but willing to travel..
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BAND MEMBERS AND EQUIPMENT:

Morten Lunn/Guitar and Vocals;
Plays Gibson guitars and custom made Diddley Bo through a Bad Cat amp.

Thomas Foldberg/Guitar and Harmonica;
Plays Harmony, Supro, Teisco, Foldberg Bastardocaster and Fender guitars through a Swart AST amp, and Hohner Marine Band Deluxe Harmonicas through Gibson amps or Skip Simmons and Holmes Engineerng preamps

Thomas Crawfurd/Drums, Percussion and Mandolin;
Plays vintage Slingerland drums, lots of tamburines, maracas, cabassa, shakers and hooves from Argentine mountain goats, Italian Banjo-Mandolin (1930), and Washburn, Oscar Schmidt, Mandolins.

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BIOGRAPHY:

The band was formed as a electric/acoustic duo by Morten Lunn and Thomas Foldberg in 2003.
Together they soon developed a love for the raw and stripped down sounds of RL Burnside, Jr. Kimbrough, Kenny Brown, Asie Payton , T-Model Ford and Robert Belfour! The duo started as a warm up act for bigger Danish Blues names.

Under a year later they turned into a quartet (adding bass and drums) and during a trip to Chicago Mr. Lunn gave the band it´s name while sitting in a south-side restaurant (that was eventually closed).. The Fried Okra Band.
Most of the material was borrowed from the giants from the North Mississippi Hills and reworked blues-classics.
The "new" band played several gigs around Denmark, Norway and Sweden - from small clubs to festivals.
Gradually the band´s repetoire changed from covers to mostly original stuff developing a very personal style.

In the fall of 2011 the band took on a new approach by turning the quartet into a trio consisting of M. Lunn on guitar/vocals/diddley Bo,
T. Foldberg on guitar/harmonica and T. Crawfurd drums/perc/mandolin!Occasionally a forth member is added - Henrik Silver playing the bass horn - the sousaphone!

With this new constellation the band moves into the next phase -
ready to record their 3´rd album - feeling more focused than ever, with a lot on their mind and heart!

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