Chicken Shack - Complete Blue Horizon Sessions
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Artist: Chicken ShackEdition: Music CD
Format: Original recording remastered
CD Release Date: 2007-02-06
Music Label: Blue Horizon
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
- It's Okay with Me Baby - Chicken Shack, Perfect, Christine
- When My Left Eye Jumps - Chicken Shack, Dixon, Willie
- The Letter - Chicken Shack, King, Rioley
- Lonesome Whistle Blues - Chicken Shack, Toombs, Rudolph
- When the Train Comes Back - Chicken Shack, Perfect, Christine
- San-Ho-Zay - Chicken Shack, King, Freddy
- King of the World - Chicken Shack, Hooker, John Lee
- See See Baby - Chicken Shack, King, Freddy
- First Time I Met the Blues - Chicken Shack, Montgomery, Eurreal
- Webbed Feet
- You Ain't No Good - Chicken Shack, Perfect, Christine
- What You Did Last Night
- Hey Baby - Chicken Shack, Perfect, Christine
- Baby's Got Me Crying
- The Right Way Is My Way
- Get Like You Used to Be
- Pony and Trap
- Tell Me - Chicken Shack, Burnett, Chester A.
- A Woman Is the Blues
- When the Train Comes Back - Chicken Shack, Perfect, Christine
- Worried About My Woman
- Six Nights in Seven
- I Wanna See My Baby - Chicken Shack, Walker, Aaron
- Remington Ride - Chicken Shack, Remington, Herb
- Fishing in Your River
- Mean Old World - Chicken Shack, Walker, Aaron
- Sweet Sixteen - Chicken Shack, Ertegun, Ahmet
- I'd Rather Go Blind - Chicken Shack, Jordan, Ellington
- Night Life - Chicken Shack, Buskirk, Paul
- The Road of Love - Chicken Shack, Carter, cClarence
- Look Ma, I'm Cryin' - Chicken Shack, Toombs, Rudolph
- Evelyn
- Reconsider Baby - Chicken Shack, Fulson, Lowell
- Weekend Love - Chicken Shack, Carter, Clarence
- Midnight Hour - Chicken Shack, Brown, Clarence
- Tears in the Wind
- Horse & Cart
- The Way It Is
- Still Worried About My Woman
- Anji - Chicken Shack, Graham, D.
- Smartest Girl in Town
- Hideaway - Chicken Shack, King, Freddy
- The Things You Put Me Through
- Diary of Your Life
- Never Ever
- Sad Clown
- Maudie
- Telling Your Fortune
- Tired Eyes
- Some Other Time
- Going Round
- Andalucian Blues
- You Knew You Did You Did
- She Didn't Use Her Loaf
- Maudie
Free Music Notes for Complete Blue Horizon Sessions
Free Music Review: Chicken Shack Complete - 4 Full Albums - Rare Non-Album Singles - Previously Unreleased Tracks - Superlative Stuff!
Hit: 5 Stars
Across it's 56 tracks and 3 CDs, this fantastic release offers you 4 full albums from 1968 to 1970, 6 non-album 7" singles and their rare B-sides and even 2 previously unreleased songs. The 1st generation original master tapes were digitally transferred and remastered by Duncan Cowell at Sound Mastering and overseen by label supremo Mike Vernon - and as usual with all the Blue Horizon reissues - the sonic results are just stunning - clear, warm and fresh sounding. And with each of their original vinyl issues pushing ?60 a throw (if you can actually find them in playable condition), this is a welcome release.
Here's the layout:
Disc 1 (74:16 minutes):
Tracks 1 & 2 are the band's 1st UK 7" single on Blue Horizon (57-3157) and both songs are non-album
Tracks 3 to 12 are their debut UK album "Forty Blue Fingers Freshly Packed & Ready To Serve" (763203) from 1968
Tracks 13 and 20 are their 3rd UK 7" single on Blue Horizon (57-3146) and both songs are non-album (there's a version of "When The Train Comes Back" on "Forty Fresh Fingers..." but it's different to the single release - the single release pushes the brass section more into the mix)
Tracks 14 to 19 are Side 1 of their 2nd UK album "O.K. Ken?" on Blue Horizon (7-63209) also from 1968
Disc 2 (71:52 minutes)
Tracks 1 and 2 are their 2nd UK 7" single on Blue Horizon (57-3143) and are both non-album
Tracks 3 to 7 are Side 2 of their 2nd UK album "O.K. Ken?" on Blue Horizon (7-63209) also from 1968
Tracks 8 and 9 are their 4th UK 7" single on Blue Horizon (57-3153) and are both non-album (8 is an Etta James cover, 9 a Willie Nelson cover)
Tracks 10 to 15 are Side 1 of their 3rd UK album "100 Ton Chicken" on Blue Horizon (7-63218) from 1969
Track 16 is the non-album A-side to their 5th UK 7" single on Blue Horizon (57-3160) (the non-album B-side in on Disc 3)
Tracks 17 to 20 are Side 2 on their 3rd UK album "100 Ton Chicken" on Blue Horizon (7-63218) from 1969
(Note: Track 1 is the 7" single version, which features what you would call a `guitar' version of the track, with Webb's guitar work to the fore. However, Track 19 is the `album' version of "Worried About My Woman" - wittily tagged with the word "Still" in front of it, because although it's the same song, the version is very different. It features Paul Raymond's Organ work far more to the fore of the mix - almost Georgie Fame and The Blues Flames in its feel - and a far louder Webb guitar - he rocks like a mother on this one - fantastic!)
Disc 3 (51:08 minutes):
Tracks 1 and 2 are previously unreleased, recorded in May 1969 with the Stan Webb (Guitar), Paul Raymond (Organ), Andy Silvester (Bass) and David Bidwell (Drums) line-up featured on both
Track 3 is the non-album B-side to "Tears In The Wind" (track 16 on Disc 2)
Tracks 4 to 15 are their 4th and last album "Accept" for Blue Horizon (7-63861) from 1970
Track 16 is the non-album A-side to their 6th UK 7" single on Blue Horizon (57-3168)
(Note: Track 13 "Andalucian Blues" is the B-side to "Maudie" their 6th UK 7" single
Track 7 "Sad Clown" and Track 10 "Tired Eyes" make up the A & B side of their 7th and last Blue Horizon 7" single (57-3176) from 1970
This 3CD set allows you to sequence all 14 tracks on their seven UK Blue Horizon singles as a compilation.)
Chicken Shack was always about the blues and the bar-brawling boogie that came out of that tradition (they took their name from a 50's R&B tune by Amos Milburn). Mixing raucous cover versions with equally impressive originals, the first 3 albums featured shared vocals/song-writing credits between blues-nutter Stan Webb and a young Female Singer of the Year, Christine Perfect. (Christine married John McVie in 1969 and later joined Fleetwood Mac - retaining the McVie surname to this day). The Shacks albums also featured guest Sax work from Johnny Almond and Paul Raymond and his Organ/Piano work came on board from "100 Ton Chicken" onwards. The music is infectious blues based rock with the occasional funky moment (the instrumental "Evelyn" is a good example). Stan Webb kept Chicken Shack going after BH to do two more 'rock' albums for the Deram label - "Imagination Lady" in 1972 and "Unlucky Boy" in 1973.
If I was to say there was a downside - it's the lack of unreleased material. And it's a damn shame that these four albums didn't receive the Fleetwood Mac box set treatment - I would love to have seen all of them in Repro Card Sleeves (Gatefolds in some cases) - each topped up with bonus tracks. But alas! It probably wasn't viable financially anyway. Still, as it stands "The Complete Blue Horizon Sessions" is another jewel in the Blue Horizon crown. Never less than brilliant on any of the discs, this superb release is a steal - and I recommend it wholeheartedly to fans and the uninitiated alike.
PS: see also Christine Perfect's solo work on "The Complete Blue Horizon Sessions" CD (separate review)
Complete Blue Horizon Sessions Poster
55 trk, 3 CD set from 60's blues band on the famous Blue Horizon label . The band included Christine Perfect (who married John McVie & joined Fleetwood Mac) & Stan Webb. All tracks restored & remastered by Blue Horizon founder Mike Vernon, with previously unreleased material, detailed liner notes & new photos.Blues Music CDs
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