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Chicken Shack - Forty Blue Fingers, Freshly Packed And Ready To Serve (1968)

Track listing:
  1. The Letter 4:31
  2. Lonesome Whistle Blues 3:06
  3. When The Train Comes Back 3:36
  4. San-Ho-Zay 3:08
  5. King Of The World 5:04
  6. See See Baby 2:28
  7. First Time I Met The Blues 6:30
  8. Webbed Feet 2:57
  9. You Ain't No Good 3:41
  10. What You Did Last Night 4:39

Notes

If one can overlook Stan Webb's hyperventilating vocal excesses (which ain't easy), this is a promising debut, especially noteworthy for Webb's Freddie King-inspired guitar sting and Christine Perfect's understated vocals (only two, unfortunately compared to Webb's six). Webb does justice to his mentor with two instrumentals, King's "San-Ho-Zay" and his own "Webbed Feet," and Perfect proves the ideal counterpart -- one of the few pianists paying homage to King's longtime collaborator Sonny Thompson. Nice spare sound, typical of Mike Vernon's Blue Horizon label.