Chicken Shack - Complete Blue Horizon Sessions

Title: Complete Blue Horizon Sessions Artist: Chicken Shack Release Date: 3/7/2006 Re-Released On: 2/6/2007 Label: BMG, Blue Horizon Album Type(s): Greatest Hits UPCs: 184719000923, 828767349428 Genre: Rock Styles: Blues-Rock, British Blues, Regional Blues Moods: Earthy, Gritty, Passionate, Reverent, Sentimental Total Copies: 0 Members Wishing: 2 Number of Discs/SwapaCD Credits: 3

1. It's Okay with Me Baby
2. When My Left Eye Jumps
3. The Letter
4. Lonesome Whistle Blues
5. When the Train Comes Back
6. San-Ho-Zay
7. King of the World
8. See See Baby
9. First Time I Met the Blues
10. Webbed Feet
11. You Ain't No Good
12. What You Did Last Night
13. Hey Baby
14. Baby's Got Me Crying
15. The Right Way Is My Way
16. Get Like You Used to Be
17. Pony and Trap
18. Tell Me
19. A Woman Is the Blues
20. When the Train Comes Back [Single Version]

1. Worried About My Woman
2. Six Nights in Seven
3. I Wanna See My Baby
4. Remington Ride
5. Fishing in Your River
6. Mean Old World
7. Sweet Sixteen
8. I'd Rather Go Blind
9. Night Life
10. The Road of Love
11. Look Ma, I'm Cryin'
12. Evelyn
13. Reconsider Baby
14. Weekend Love
15. Midnight Hour
16. Tears in the Wind
17. Horse & Cart
18. The Way It Is
19. Still Worried About My Woman
20. Anji

1. Smartest Girl in Town [#]
2. Hideaway [#]
3. The Things You Put Me Through
4. Diary of Your Life
5. Pocket
6. Never Ever
7. Sad Clown
8. Maudie
9. Telling Your Fortune
10. Tired Eyes
11. Some Other Time
12. Going Round
13. Andalucian Blues
14. You Knew You Did You Did
15. She Didn't Use Her Loaf
16. Maudie [Single Version]

Year Type Label Catalog # 2007 CD Blue Horizon 90009 2006 CD BMG 673494

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Formed and led by guitarist/vocalist Stan Webb, Chicken Shack were one of the first bands to be signed to the Blue Horizon label in the mid-'60s. As of this compilation's release in 2006, Webb was still fronting a version of the group. While never attaining any success in the States, Chicken Shack were well known in the U.K., with fleeting success second only to John Mayall and labelmates Fleetwood Mac. Webb's Freddie King-styled guitar and vocalist/pianist Christine Perfect's (later McVie) singing were the major draws to this second-tier british blues band, but neither were strong enough to carry the group's success to the U.S. market. This three-disc set collects the band's entire output for the imprint from 1967-1969 and includes alternate takes, singles, and B-sides (56 tracks in all), and also features terrific liner notes by label head/producer Mike Vernon. Perfect stayed for two of four releases for the label, exiting before the recording of 1969's 100 Ton Chicken. Hence she appears on about half of this disc, leaving after the U.K. hit single "I'd Rather Go Blind." Webb's often wobbly but amiable singing is an acquired taste, so Perfect's husky, smooth vocals and classy blues piano runs were major contributions to the band, and strong points they never adequately replaced. Occasional use of horns distinguished Chicken Shack from both Mac and Savoy Brown, another band very much in the Shack style and one with whom they swapped members. These three discs include the contents of four albums and assorted singles, with much of this music hard to obtain. The remastering is excellent, too, and it's safe to say that Chicken Shack have never sounded better. But the band wasn't strong or innovative enough to maintain interest over these four albums, making this all-inclusive set essential only for fans, collectors, and those looking to research the roots of Christine Perfect's pre-Fleetwood Mac sultry blues-tinged pop. Everyone else can make due with 2004's The Very Best of Chicken Shack, a single disc that cherry-picks the better tunes from the Blue Horizon era. ~ Hal Horowitz, All Music Guide

Name Credits Alan Ellis Trumpet Allison Young Vocals (Background) Andy Silvester 6-String Bass, Bass Pedals, Bass, Guitar (Bass), Organ, Photo Courtesy Big Walter Horton Harmonica Bud Beadle Sax (Baritone), Sax (Alto) Christine Perfect Piano, Organ, Vocals Dave Bidwell Tambourine, Drums, Conga, Cowbell Dick Heckstall-Smith Sax (Tenor) Don Fey Sax (Tenor) Duncan Cowell Tape Transfer, Digital Mastering, Editing Geoff Condon Trumpet John Almond Sax (Tenor), Soloist, Sax (Alto) Jonathan Frost Photography Mike Bobak Engineer, Mixing Mike Vernon Producer, Mixing, Reissue Producer, Liner Notes, Photo Courtesy, Finger Cymbals Paul Raymond Guitar (Acoustic), Cover Photo, Vocals (Background), Organ, Piano Peter Moody Photo Courtesy Richard Vernon Release Coordinator Rob Keyloch Mixing Robert Dowling Photography Roderick M Lee Trumpet Roger Quested Remixing Roy Baker Engineer, Remixing Simon Cantwell Art Direction Stan Webb Guitar (Electric), Guitar, Vocals, Guitar (Acoustic) Terence Ibbott Original Photography, Photography, Artwork Terry Noonan Horn Arrangements, String Arrangements, Trumpet, Director, Arranger