Chicken Shack
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Chicken Shack were a British blues band of the late 1960s, consisting of Christine Perfect (vocals and keyboards), Stan Webb (guitar and vocals), Andy Sylvester (bass guitar), and Alan Morley (drums).
The band was formed in 1967 and reputedly named themselves after the chicken coup in Kidderminster where they rehearsed. 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.
Christine Perfect left the band in 1969 when she married John McVie of Fleetwood Mac and, although the band went through several subsequent incarnations, it never equalled its earlier successes.
Discography
- Forty Blue Fingers, Freshly Packed And Ready To Serve (1968), Blue Horizon
- O.K. Ken (1969), Blue Horizon
- 100 Ton Chicken (1969), Blue Horizon
- Accept (1970), Blue Horizon
- Imagination Lady (1972), Deram
- Unlucky Boy (1973), Deram
- Goodbye Chicken Snack (Live) (1974), Deram
- On Air (BBC sessions) (1991), Band Of Joy
- Still Live After All These Years (2004) Mystic, (as Stan Webb's Chicken Shack)
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