Chicken Shack - Goodbye Chicken Shack [Live] (1974)

Year: Recording: October 26, 1973 (CD Feb 28, 2013)
Label: Esoteric Recordings (UK), ECLEC2379
Style: Rock, Blues Rock
Country: Birmingham, England
Time: 48:53
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 267 Mb

Chicken Shack evolved from a Stourbridge based band called "Sounds Of Blue" who were performing in the West Midlands area by 1964. Early members included lead guitarist/vocalist Stan Webb, vocalist/pianist Christine Perfect, bass guitarist Andy Silvester, and saxophonist Chris Wood. The group made their name during the "British blues revival" of the late 1960s.
Talented guitarist Stan Webb is regarded by many as one of the great un-sung heroes of British blues music. He was born in Fulham, London on February 3, 1946 and moved to Kidderminster with his parents after leaving school. He started playing guitar during the "skiffle" craze of the late 1950s and formed his first group in 1962 called "The Strangers Dance Band" with whom he played instrumental versions of the hits of the day at pubs and youth clubs.
Stan Webb began to earn money in his first professional band called "Shades Five". Like many local groups at the time, they found regular bookings on Joe and Mary Regan's famous West Midlands circuit of venues. He recalled in an interview; "Shades Five was my first crack at being a professional musician working for Mrs Regan in Birmingham doing the Old Hill Plaza, the Plaza in Handsworth, and The Brumbeat Cavern. If you didn't do those, you weren't anyone!"
A record shop in Birmingham on Hurst Street changed Stan's outlook on music. He recalled; "I started hearing all the blues stuff at this record shop called 'The Diskery' that was wonderful. Went up there on a Saturday, they had all these American records playing, covers all over the ceiling. And that's when I first got 'Freddie King Sings'. I took it home and listened and thought, I don't believe this!"
It was local blues singer David Yeates who convinced Stan Webb to join his group called "The Sounds Of Blue". By this time, Webb was heavily influenced by American blues and R&B music. The Sounds of Blue line-up included Andy Silvester on rhythm guitar and saxophonist Chris Wood who lived in nearby Cradley Heath.
Chris Wood had attended Stourbridge Art College in 1963 and learned to play the flute before later graduating to saxophone. By March 1964, he was performing with Sounds Of Blue although he left the following year before they went over to Germany as Chicken Shack. Chris Wood then joined Jim Simpson's jazz influenced band called "The Kansas City Seven" (see Locomotive) and later became a founding member of the highly acclaimed and internationally successful Traffic.
(full version: brumbeat.net/chickens.htm)

01. Everyday I Have The Blues (05:41)
02. Thrill Is Gone (05:42)
03. Going Down (05:56)
04. You Take Me Down (05:17)
05. Webb's Boogie (06:13)
06. You're Mean (06:23)
07. Poor Boy (07:55)
08. Webb's Guitar Shuffle (03:13)
09. Tutti Frutti (02:28)

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