Chicken Shack - Tears In The Wind

This British blues-rock group is remembered mostly for their keyboard player, Christine Perfect, who would join Fleetwood Mac after marrying John McVie and changing her last name. Although they were one of the more pedestrian acts of the British blues boom, Chicken Shack was quite popular for a time in the late '60s, placing two albums in the British Top 20. The frontperson of Chicken was not Perfect/McVie, but guitarist Stan Webb, who would excite British audiences by entering the crowds at performances, courtesy of his 100-meter-long guitar lead. They were signed to Mike Vernon's Blue Horizon label, a British blues pillar that had its biggest success with early Fleetwood Mac.

Chicken Shack was actually not far behind Mac in popularity in the late '60s, purveying a more traditional brand of Chicago blues, heavily influenced by Freddie King. Although Webb took most of the songwriting and vocal duties, Christine Perfect also chipped in with occasional compositions and lead singing. In fact, she sang lead on their only British Top 20 single, "I'd Rather Go Blind" (1969). But around that time, she quit the music business to marry John McVie and become a housewife, although, as the world knows, that didn't last too long. Chicken Shack never recovered from Christine's loss, commercially or musically. Stan Webb kept Chicken Shack going, with a revolving door of other musicians, all the way into the 1980s, though he briefly disbanded the group to join Savoy Brown for a while in the mid-'70s.

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[radioactivemichael]

Pedestrian? What fool of fools wrote that? Yeah, a little heavy on the Freddie King riffs, but still along with Kim Simmons, Tony McPhee & Dave Edmunds (Love Sculpture) - British Blues guitarwork at its very best. And Webb is the best songwriter of all of them! Clapton? Green? no thank you.

[TheGuitarlibrary]

What's with the word, pedestrian? I saw them live in the 70s, there was nothing pedestrian about Stan Webb, he couldn't stop moving!

[ruudlist]

fantastic

when was this?

[micadinz]

Looks like they're playing inside a giant stomach. Nice upload - thanks.

[Bruchag]

Oh so so brilliant and the sound is crystal... wows abound today

Brillarooni

[miclewis55]

Thanks for the upload ...... I was fortunate enough to see Chicken Shack playing many times in the early '70s .... I've never forgotten those gigs . Stan is an amazing writer and performer . Staggering live guitar player.

[mangeldeth74]

Great post.

[yaywhewclips242]

the backdrop needs a windsheild wiper! (IN Britian: windscreen)

[johngill]

I saw Stan last year in the 100 Club - terrific player and criminally under-rated by the historians of the 60s blues period.

[mandoprince1]

Interesting to see this early line up with Christine Perfect's replacement, Paul Raymond on keyboards along with Andy Silvester, bass and Dave Bidwell on Drums.

Stan Webb's Chicken Shack are still very much going, though there have been many changes in personnel over the years. They remain one of the best live bands around." Pedestrian"???