Audio CD (1998)
Original Release Date: 1968
Format: Import Made in Austria
Label: Blue Horizon Rewind
Track Listing:
1. Letter
2. Lonesome Whistle Train Blues
3. When the Train Comes Back
4. San-Ho-Zay
5. King of the World
6. See See Baby
7. First Time I Met the Blues
8. Webbed Feet
9. You Ain't No Good
10. What You Did Last Night
Reviewer: voodoo chile
Formed in 1967, Chicken Shack consisted of Stan Webb on
guitar/vocal, Andy Sylvester on bass, Christine Perfect a.k.a
Christine McVie, later a part of the great Fleetwood Mac on
vocals/keyboards, and Alan Morley on drums.
Webb is ,according to me, a really under-rated guitarist of the
late 60's British Blues Scene , just like Les Harvey ( Stone The
Crows), Mick Taylor ( The Bluesbreakers)...
Christine is a Godess. She's like Whoa!!! An amazing voice.
Powerful, Soul-driven..definitely sounds very influenced by the
great John Mayall.
Chicken Shack made their public debut at the Great Britain's
National Blues & Jazz Festival at Windsor along with Fleetwood Mac
on August 13, 1967-- "There were two stages at Windsor, the main
one an open-air ramshackle structure, the other inside a marquee.
Fleetwood Mac had their initiation on the main stage but much was
made of Chicken Shack's tented debut."
But all said and done it's Christine who makes this album a real
pick. I know of people who'd kill for a voice like that . very
powerful and yet very smooth [and] soulful.
Stan Webb's charismatic guitar playing gives you another good
reason to pick up this one. Check out his vocals on the Eurreal
"Little Brother" Montgomery cover, First Time I met The Blues.
Buddy Guy's version being the most popular.
If you love the blues, simply. GO GET THIS ONE!!
Review by Dan Forte
If one can overlook Stan Webb's hyperventilating vocal excesses
(which ain't easy), this is a promising debut, especially
noteworthy for Webb's Freddie King-inspired guitar sting and
Christine Perfect's understated vocals (only two, unfortunately
compared to Webb's six). Webb does justice to his mentor with two
instrumentals, King's "San-Ho-Zay" and his own "Webbed Feet," and
Perfect proves the ideal counterpart -- one of the few pianists
paying homage to King's longtime collaborator Sonny Thompson.
Nice spare sound, typical of Mike Vernon's Blue Horizon label.
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