Chicken Shack
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|Name = Chicken Shack
|Img = 100tonchicken.png
| Img_capt = Chicken Shack's 1969 [[album]], ''100 Ton Chicken''
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|Genre = [[Blues]]
|Years_active = 1967–present
|Label = [[Blue Horizon]], [[Deram Records]]
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|Current_members = [[Stan Webb]]
|Past_members = [[Christine McVie|Christine Perfect]]<br />Andy Sylvester<br />Alan Morley<br />Paul Raymond<br />Dave Bidwell}}
'''Chicken Shack''' is a [[Great Britain|British]] [[blues]] [[band (music)|band]], formed in the late 1960s and originally consisting of [[Christine McVie|Christine Perfect]] ([[singer|vocals]] and [[keyboard instrument|keyboards]]), [[Stan Webb]] ([[guitar]] and vocals), Andy Silvester ([[bass guitar]]), and Alan Morley ([[drum kit|drums]]).
==Career==
The band was 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, Berkshire|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, it never equalled its earlier successes. However, Webb remains as its 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 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 Were'' (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]]
* ''Still Live After All These Years'' (2004) Mystic, (as Stan Webb's Chicken Shack)<ref name="British Hit Singles & Albums">{{cite book
| first= David
| last= Roberts
| year= 2006
| title= British Hit Singles & Albums
| edition= 19th
| publisher= Guinness World Records Limited
| location= London
| pages= p. 104
| id= ISBN 1-904994-10-5}}</ref>
===Singles===
* "[[I'd Rather Go Blind]]" (1969), Blue Horizon - [[UK Singles Chart]] - Number 14.
* "Tears In The Wind" (1969), Blue Horizon - Number 29.<ref name="British Hit Singles & Albums">{{cite book
| first= David
| last= Roberts
| year= 2007
| title= British Hit Singles & Albums
| edition= 19th
| publisher= Guinness World Records Limited
| location= London
| pages= p. 104
| id= ISBN 1-904994-10-5}}</ref>
==Notes==
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==References==
* ''The New Musical Express Book of Rock'', 1975, Star Books, ISBN 0 352 300744
==External links==
* {{amg|id=11:7z3tk6jx9krj|label=Chicken Shack}}
* Fan Site: [http://feenstra.co.uk/bands/chickenshack/chickenshack.htm]
* the approved unofficial Stan Webbsite: [http://www.stanwebb.co.uk/]
[[Category:1960s music groups]]
[[Category:1970s music groups]]
[[Category:English musical groups]]
[[Category:Music from Birmingham, England]]
[[Category:Musical groups established in 1967]]
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