Chicken Shack

Chicken Shack are a British blues band, formed in the late 1960s and originally consisting of Christine Perfect (vocals and keyboards), Stan Webb (guitar and vocals), Andy Silvester (bass guitar), and Alan Morley (drums).

Career

The band were formed in 1967 and reputedly named themselves after the chicken coop in Kidderminster where they rehearsed; chicken shacks (chicken restaurants) had also by then frequently been mentioned in blues and rhythm and blues songs, as in Amos Milburn's hit, "Chicken Shack Boogie". Their first concert was at the 1967 National Blues and Jazz Festival at Windsor and they were signed by the Blue Horizon record label in the same year.

Chicken Shack enjoyed modest commercial success, with Christine Perfect being voted Best Female Vocalist in the Melody Maker polls, two years running.

Perfect left the band in 1969 when she married John McVie of Fleetwood Mac. Pianist Paul Raymond, bassist Andy Silvester, and drummer Dave Bidwell all left in 1971 to join Savoy Brown. Webb was also recruited for Savoy Brown in the mid 1970s, and recorded the album Boogie Brothers with them.

Although Chicken Shack went through several subsequent incarnations, they never equalled their earlier successes. Webb remains as their only constant band member.

Discography

Albums

• 40 Blue Fingers, Freshly Packed And Ready To Serve (1968), Blue Horizon - UK Albums Chart - Number 12
• O.K. Ken (1969), Blue Horizon - Number 9
• 100 Ton Chicken (1969), Blue Horizon
• Accept (1970), Blue Horizon
• Imagination Lady (1972), Deram
• Unlucky Boy (1973), Deram
• Goodbye Chicken Shack (Live) (1974), Deram
• Double (1977), Deram
• Stan The Man (1977), Nova
• That's The Way We Were (1978), Shark
• The Creeper (1978), WEA
• Chicken Shack (1979), Gull
• In The Can (1980), Epic Records
• Roadies Concerto (Live) (1981), RCA Records
• Simply Live (Live) (1989), SPV (Germany)
• On Air (BBC sessions) (1998), Strange Fruit Records
• Still Live After All These Years (2004) Mystic, (as Stan Webb's Chicken Shack)

Singles

• "I'd Rather Go Blind" (1969), Blue Horizon - UK Singles Chart - Number 14.
• "Tears In The Wind" (1969), Blue Horizon - Number 29.

Notes

References

• The New Musical Express Book of Rock, 1975, Star Books, ISBN 0 352 300744

External links

• Fan Site:
• the approved unofficial Stan Webbsite: