Chicken Shack

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Stan Webb's Chicken Shack is a British blues oriented rock band .

history

Founded in 1965, the line-up changed several times. Band members when recording the first album were Stan Webb (guitar and vocals), Andy Silvester (bass), Dave Bidwell (drums) and Christine Perfect (piano and vocals). After concerts in the Hamburg Star Club , the group, which was probably named after Willie Dixon's song "Chicken Shack", had its first major appearance in 1967 at the National Jazz and Blues Festival . Chicken Shack is still active today in changing line-ups and with a few interruptions, only Stan Webb has always been part of the band since the beginning. Her greatest success was the 1969 single I'd Rather Go Blind (written by Ellington Jordan and Bill Foster) with Christine Perfect as the singer; she married John McVie from Fleetwood Mac , switched to this group and so the Chicken Shack recording can also be found on Fleetwood Mac compilations .

At his concerts, Stan Webb often went between the audience with a guitar cable up to 60 meters long.

Discography

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
40 Blue Fingers Freshly Packes
  UK 12 06/22/1968 (8 weeks)
Ok ken?
  UK 9 05/12/1969 (1 week)
Imagination Lady
  DE 47 05/15/1972 (4 weeks)
Singles
I'd Rather Go Blind
  UK 14th 05/13/1969 (13 weeks)
Tears in the Wind
  UK 29 09/06/1969 (6 weeks)
Poor boy
  DE 49 04/24/1972 (1 week)

Studio albums

  • 1968: 40 Blue Fingers, Freshly Packed and Ready to Serve
  • 1969: OK Ken?
  • 1969: 100 ton chicken
  • 1970: Accept
  • 1972: Imagination Lady
  • 1973: Unlucky Boy
  • 1976: Goodbye
  • 1976: Broken Glass - Broken Glass
  • 1978: The Creeper - Stan Webb's Chicken Shack
  • 1978: That's the Way We Are - Stan Webb's Chicken Shack
  • 1980: In the Can (compilation)
  • 1985: 39 bars
  • 1990: The Very Best of Chicken Shack
  • 1991: Changes - Stan Webb's Chicken Shack
  • 1991: On Air (BBC Sessions)
  • 1993: Plucking Good - Stan Webb's Chicken Shack
  • 1997: From the Vaults - Stan Webb's Chicken Shack
  • 1998: Archives - Stan Webb's Chicken Shack
  • 1998: Webb's Blues - Stan Webb's Chicken Shack
  • 1999: Black Night
  • 2000: Webbed Feet (compilation)
  • 2001: Webb
  • 2002: Stan the Man (compilation)
  • 2004: Stan Webb
  • 2004: Going Up, Going Down - The Anthology 1968-2001
  • 2006: Poor Boy - The Deram Years 1972–1974 - Stan Webb's Chicken Shack
  • 2006: Strange Situations: The Stan Webb & Chicken Shack Indigo Sessions - Stan Webb's Chicken Shack
  • 2007: Jersey Lightning (except for 2 songs identical to Broken Glass )

Concert albums

  • 1974: Goodbye Chicken Shack
  • 1981: Roadies' Concerto - Stan Webb's Chicken Shack
  • 1986: Eric Clapton and Stan Webb's Chicken Shack
  • 1988: 2nd Blues Festival Bonn '87 - Stan Webb's Chicken Shack (3 tracks)
  • 1989: Simply Live - Stan Webb's Chicken Shack
  • 1995: Stan 'The Man' Live - Stan Webb's Chicken Shack
  • 1996: The Private Collection Vol. 1 - Stan Webb's Chicken Shack
  • 2000: Poor Boy - In Concert 1973–1981 - Stan Webb's Chicken Shack
  • 2003: Still Live After All These Years
  • 2006: I'd Rather Go Live

Singles

  • 1967: It's Okay with Me Baby / When My Left Eye Jumps
  • 1968: Worried About My Woman / Six Nights in Seven
  • 1968: When the Train Comes Back / Hey Baby
  • 1969: I'd Rather Go Blind / Night Life
  • 1969: Tears in the Wind / Things You Put Me Through
  • 1970: Sad Clown / Tired Eyes (Blue Horizon 57-3176)
  • 1970: Maudie / Andalusian Blues (Blue Horizon 573 168)
  • 1971: The Loser / Telling Your Fortune (Deram 369)
  • 1972: Poor Boy / Daughter of the Hillside (Deram 352)
  • 1973: Unlucky Boy / As Time Goes Passing By

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ rocktimes.de, accessed May 23, 2015
  2. ↑ Chart sources: Charts DE Charts UK

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