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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