CHICKEN SHACK - "GOODBYE"

With a live reputation so strong, it was only a matter of time before Stan Webb’s ensemble delivered a concert recording, but when this album came out the time wasn’t right, as the band had ceased to exist and their mastermind joined competitors SAVOY BROWN. Not that his decision to thwart things is reflected in “Goodbye” that saw the guitarist surrounded with a new line-up and discarding the artful fabric of the recent "Unlucky Boy" in order to focus on the loose brilliance of standards like “Tutti Frutti” or “Everyday I Have The Blues” where the audience engages in a catchy call-and-response.

A different sort of reflection comes out of the “Poor Boy” rumble and “Thrill Is Gone” that pack desolation as tight as it gets for an axe to cry and the voice to weep. There’s anguish in the spare muscularity of “You Take Me Down” and a heavy sense of doom in “Going Down” that bulges with Rob Hull’s bass and Dave Wilkinson’s bopping piano, but then there’s panache in the improvisational vibe that surges through “Webb’s Guitar Shuffle”, a hurricane rehash of Bert Weedon’s tune, and “Webb’s Boogie” as instruments do the talking – eloquently to the hilt. As far as farewells go, this one is a brilliant bow.

01. Everyday I Have The Blues
02. Thrill Is Gone
03. Going Down
04. You Take Me Down
05. Webb's Boogie
06. You're Mean
07. Poor Boy
08. Webb's Guitar Schuffle
09. Tutti Frutti


Stan Webb – Lead Guitar, Vocals
Dave Wilkinson – Electric Piano
Rob Hull – Bass
Alan Powell – Drums                                                                                                       http://www.filefactory.com/file/1nf6okldsja1/CHICKEN%20SHACK%20%5BFeaturing%20Stan%20Webb%5D%20-%20Goodbye%20%281974%29%20%5B2013%5D%20@320.rar

CHICKEN SHACK - UNLUCKY BOY

Chicken Shack are a British blues band, founded in the mid-1960s by Stan Webb (guitar and vocals), Andy Silvester (bass guitar), and Alan Morley (drums), who were later joined by Christine Perfect (McVie) (vocals and keyboards) in 1968. Chicken Shack has performed with various line-ups, Stan Webb being the only constant member.

Originally released in 1973, but reissued with four extra tracks as part of Sanctuary's Blues Masters series in 2003, Chicken Shack's Unlucky Boy finds guitarist/vocalist/songwriter and band founder Stan Webb in fine form. Only drummer Paul Hancox remains from the uneven Imagination Lady, and indeed the horn-oriented approach here is much different than the plodding Led Zeppelin-isms of the previous disc. Webb contributes six originals, and even though they are derivative of Savoy Brown (a band he joined for the Boogie Brothers album just a year later), his approach here is much more subtle and controlled than on his last effort. Chris Mercer's saxes, often double tracked to sound like a horn section, bring a tough R&B to the mix, and drummer Hancox is a controlled powerhouse. Webb also reigns in his impulse to overextend guitar solos so prevalent on Imagination Lady, whipping off tight, controlled leads instead. Producer Neil Slaven contributes honest, witty, and often self-deprecating liner notes that help explain why two of these songs suffer from poor mixes (basically, he had consumed various substances and couldn't salvage the songs after the fact).

01. You Know Could Be Right
02. Revelation
03. Prudence's Party
04. Too Late To Cry
05. Stan The Man
06. Unlucky Boy
07. As Time Goes Passing By
08. Jammin' With The Ash
09. He Knows The Rules
10. As Time Goes Passing By (Single Version)                                                               http://www.filefactory.com/file/4cktqeb1ajpf/CHICKEN%20SHACK%20%5BFeaturing%20Stan%20Webb%5D%20-%20Unlucky%20Boy%20%281973%29%20%5B2013%5D%20@320.rar

CHICKEN SHACK - THE COLLECTION

This British blues-rock group is remembered mostly for their keyboard player, Christine Perfect, who would join Fleetwood Mac after marrying John McVie and changing her last name. Although they were one of the more pedestrian acts of the British blues boom, Chicken Shack was quite popular for a time in the late '60s, placing two albums in the British Top 20. The frontperson of Chicken was not Perfect/McVie, but guitarist Stan Webb, who would excite British audiences by entering the crowds at performances, courtesy of his 100-meter-long guitar lead. They were signed to Mike Vernon's Blue Horizon label, a British blues pillar that had its biggest success with early Fleetwood Mac.

Chicken Shack was actually not far behind Mac in popularity in the late '60s, purveying a more traditional brand of Chicago blues, heavily influenced by Freddie King. Although Webb took most of the songwriting and vocal duties, Christine Perfect also chipped in with occasional compositions and lead singing. In fact, she sang lead on their only British Top 20 single, "I'd Rather Go Blind" (1969). But around that time, she quit the music business to marry John McVie and become a housewife, although, as the world knows, that didn't last too long. Chicken Shack never recovered from Christine's loss, commercially or musically. Stan Webb kept Chicken Shack going, with a revolving door of other musicians, all the way into the 1980s, though he briefly disbanded the group to join Savoy Brown for a while in the mid '70s. - allmusic.com


01. The Letter
02. When The Train Comes Back
03. Lonesome Whistle Blues
04. You Aint No Good
05. Babys Got Me Crying
06. Right Way Is My Way
07. Get Like You Used To Be
08. A Woman Is The Blues
09. I Wanna See My Baby
10. Remington Ride
11. Mean Old World
12. San-Ho-Zay
13. The Way It Is
14. Tears In The Wind
15. Maudi
16. Some Other Time
17. Andalucian Blues
18. Crazy Bout You Baby
19. Close To Me
20. Id Rather Go Blind

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STAN WEBB/CHICKEN SHACK ''GOING UP, GOING DOWN... THE ANTHOLOGY 1968/2001,

STAN WEBB/CHICKEN SHACK
''GOING UP, GOING DOWN... THE ANTHOLOGY 1968/2001,
JUL 2004
CASTLE MUSIC LTD.


DISC ONE
1/Everyday I Have the Blues/Chatman/3:00
2/Tell Me/Burnett/4:10
3/When the Train Comes Back/Perfect/3:11
4/San Ho Zay/King, Thompson/2:01
5/Mean Old World/Walker/3:55
6/You've Done Lost Your Good Thing Now/Josea, King/4:25
7/I'm Tore Down/Thompson/2:49
8/You Take Me Down/Webb/5:10
9/The Thrill Has Gone/Darnell, Hawkins/6:52
10/My Mood/Freeman, King/2:52
11/Midnight Hour/Brown/4:00
12/Set Me Free/Webb/3:23
13/I'd Rather Go Blind/Foster, Jordan/5:41
14/Going Up, Going Down/Webb/5:06
15/Lost the Best Friend I Ever Had/Webb/7:15
16/Black Night/Webb/5:58
17/Prisoner/Webb/4:13
18/He Knows the Rules/McCracklin/3:54

DISC TWO
1/Mine All the Time/Webb/3:52
2/Crying Won't Help You/Whittaker/5:09
3/Poor Boy/Webb/5:11
4/The Loser/Webb/2:31
5/Quick Step/Blunt, Webb/2:06
6/Unlucky Boy/Dupree, Thornton/2:33
7/As Time Goes Passing By/Webb/4:41
8/Hear Me Cry/Webb/3:52
9/Meeting on a Hill/Webb/3:14
10/Use What You've Got/Blunt, Webb/3:24
11/Little Bird/Webb/4:06
12/Let Me Love You Baby/Dixon/3:23
13/Back Door Man/Dixon/7:03
14/Tell Me/Burnett/5:09
15/Strange Situations/James, Webb/3:50
16/The House That Love Lives In/James, Webb/5:58
17/I Know/James, Webb/3:34
18/The Last Time/James, Webb/7:32
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