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Refimprove|date=December 2010Infobox musical artist|name = Chicken Shack|image =| caption =|image_size =|background = group_or_band|alias =|origin =|genre = Blues |years_active = 1965–1973, 1976-present|label = Blue Horizon , Deram Records , Nova, Shark, Warner Music Group , Gull, Epic Records , RCA Records , SPV (Germany), Strange Fruit Records , Mystic,|associated_acts = Fleetwood Mac Savoy Brown Broken Glass (band)|Broken Glass Jethro Tull (band)|Jethro Tull Ten Years After Supertramp |website =|current_members = Stan Webb Dave Winthrop Gary Davies Jim Rudge Chris Williams |past_members = See #Members|Members 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 ( drum kit|drums ), who were later joined by Christine McVie|Christine Perfect (McVie) ( singing|vocals and keyboard instrument|keyboards ) in 1968.
Career
David ‘Rowdy’ Yeats and Andy Silvester had formed Sounds of Blue in 1964 as a Stourbridge based rhythm and blues band. They invited Stan Webb, who was leaving local band The Shades 5, to join them. The band also included Christine Perfect and Chris Wood (rock musician)|Chris Wood (later to join Traffic ) amongst others in their line up.Larkin C 'Virgin Encyclopedia of Sixties Music' (Muze UK Ltd, 1997) ISBN 0-7535-0149-X p110 With a new line-up Chicken Shack was formed as a trio in 1965, cite web|url= http://www.stanwebb.co.uk/index.php? view=article& catid=10%3Ahistory& id=35%3Abeginnings& option=com_content& Itemid=46 |title=Stan Webb's Chickenshack - Beginnings |publisher=Stanwebb.co.uk |date=1946-02-03 |accessdate=2012-05-07 naming themselves after Jimmy Smith (musician)|Jimmy Smith 's Back at the Chicken Shack album. '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 ". Over the next few years they had a residency at the Star-Club , Hamburg with Morley, then Al Sykes, Hughie Flint (who was John Mayall's drummer when Eric Clapton was in the band) and later Dave Bidwell on drums.
They made their first United Kingdom|UK appearance at the 1967 National Jazz and Blues Festival, Windsor, Berkshire|Windsor and signed to Mike Vernon | Mike Vernon's Blue Horizon record label in the same year; releasing Forty Blue Fingers, Freshly Packed and Ready to Serve in early 1968. A mainstay of the British blues boom, and a regular at UK festivals (Stan Webb's wandering through the crowd with a 200ft extension to his lead guitar during the band's set was a regular occurrencecitation needed|date=August 2011), Chicken Shack enjoyed some commercial success, with Christine Perfect voted Best Female Vocalist in the Melody Maker polls two years running. They had two minor hits with "I'd Rather Go Blind" and "Tears In The Wind", after which Perfect left the band in 1969 when she married John McVie of Fleetwood Mac . She was replaced by Paul Raymond from Plastic Penny .
After being dropped by Blue Horizon, pianist Paul Raymond (musician)|Paul Raymond , bassist Andy Silvester , and drummer Dave Bidwell all left in 1971 to join Savoy Brown . At this point Webb reformed the band as a trio with John Glascock on bass and Paul Hancox on drums, and they recorded Imagination Lady . The line-up didn't last; Glascock left to join Jethro Tull (band)|Jethro Tull , while Webb was recruited for Savoy Brown in 1974 and recorded the album Boogie Brothers with them.
From 1977 until the present Webb has revived the Chicken Shack name on a number of occasions, with a rotating membership over the next 30 years of British blues musicians including, at various times, Paul Butler (ex-Jellybread, Keef Hartley Band)(guitar), Keef Hartley , ex- Ten Years After drummer Ric Lee and Miller Anderson (musician)|Miller Anderson , some of whom came and went several times. The band has remained popular as a live attraction in Europe throughout.
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 No. 12
O.K. Ken? (1969), Blue Horizon - Number 9
100 Ton Chicken (1969), Blue Horizon
Accept (Chicken Shack Album)|Accept (1970), Blue Horizon
Imagination Lady (1972), Deram Records|Deram
Unlucky Boy (1973), Deram
Goodbye Chicken Shack ( Live album|Live ) (1974), Deram
Double (1977), Deram
Stan the Man (1977), Nova
''That's the Way We Are (1978), Shark
The Creeper (1978), Warner Bros.|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
Black Night (1999), (as Stan Webb's Chicken Shack)
Still Live After All These Years (2004), Mystic
Webb (2001)
Stan The Man (2002), compilation album
Stan Webb (2004)
Going Up, Going Down-Anthology (2004)
Poor Boy/the Deram Years (2006), (as Stan Webb's Chicken Shack)
Strange Situations/The Indigo (2006), (as Stan Webb's Chicken Shack)
Singles
"It's Okay With Me Baby" 19/01/1968, Blue Horizon
"When The Train Comes Back / Hey Baby" 6/12/1968 Blue Horizon
" I'd Rather Go Blind " (1969), Blue Horizon - UK Singles Chart - Number 14.
"Tears in the Wind" (1969), Blue Horizon - Number 29.cite book
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Members
(Founding members listed in bold .)
;Current members
Stan Webb - singing|vocals , guitar (1965–present)
Dave Winthrop - saxophone (1976–1978, 1986–1987, 2008–present)
http://www.stanwebb.co.uk/ Unofficial Stan Webb website
Category:British blues musical groups Category:Music in Birmingham, West Midlands Category:Musical groups established in 1967 Category:British rhythm and blues boom musicians Category:Deram Records artists
