Stan Webb's
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BLUES GUITAR LEGEND STAN WEBB IS BACK

45th ANNIVERSARY

It's 45 years since Stan Webb started Chicken Shack and upped stick to Hamburg and the famous Star Club. Barely 2 years later he was back in the UK and riding the top of the charts with ‘I’d Rather Go Blind’ with the band’s new vocalist Christine Perfect (aka McVie), later of Fleetwood Mac ‘Rumours’ era.
And while the world succumbed to a mix of glam rock, punk and new wave, Stan concentrate don his fierce rock/blues style, gigging relentlessly around Europe, where he remains a star to this day.
Promoting their best ever album, "Still Live After All These Years" on Mystic, Chicken Shack's profile has never been so high since the late 60's. Stan himself is playing like a demon as the Live in Germany album proves. Not only is his guitar playing majestic but his voice has matured to being stronger and more expressive than any other time in his career.
Stan is still to be found at his best firing off his unique big toned psychedelic blues riffs in the company of his long time band featuring Jim Rudge, bass, Gary Davies guitar, and Mick Jones drums. The special live recording also features a mighty horn section – The Shadows – who bring their full might to bear on the very best of Stan’s Chicken Shack favourites.
Best known for his chart hits "I'd Rather Go Blind" and "Tears In The Wind", Stan Webb stuck with his love of the blues as all around him went psychedelic in the late 60's. Ironically the new album new live album gloriously demonstrates he has he has absorbed the best of all prevailing styles of the time. What is clear is that Stan has matured as both a player and vocalist, and is arguably playing far better than ever before. And the problems that befell his career in the early 70’s are long behind him…
"Christine Perfect (later McVie) joined Fleetwood Mac", and my record company wanted me to change, but this is the music I was born to play." A contemporary of Peter Green, whose Fleetwood Mac went on to enjoy a string of hits, Stan soldiered on with Chicken Shack Lean times followed with the collapse of his record company Blues Horizon, and it wasn't until the talented guitarist received a major boost from his blues idol, Freddie King, that he felt the need to carry on. King toured with Stan Webb and announced on stage; "You have a rare talent, don't ever think about stopping"
It was Freddie King who inspired Stan Webb's delicate vibrato and sustain, and above all else his emotive tone. Together with his characteristic throaty falsetto, Stan established himself as a hard gigging blues rocker, with the emphasis on style and playing. Albums such as "40 Blue Fingers"; "OK Ken", "100 Ton Chicken" and the excellent "Imagination Lady", which included the Webb classic "Poor Boy", provided the suitable context for an uncompromising, but magnificent guitar talent.
Stan went on to enjoy stints with Canned Heat (the only UK guitarist to ever play with them) and Savoy Brown with Kim Simmons, and toured the US with Kim as The Boogie Brothers. Simmons stayed in the US, but Stan continued to work the European blues scene and has been rewarded by a steadfast loyal following that have made albums such as "Plucking Good" and "Changes" his best sellers. A high profile, late 80's charity gig with Eric Clapton saw Stan at his very best. With the upswing in blues popularity in the early 90's Chicken Shack was once again in vogue, a situation that has happily stretched over the last two decades. With a fine new album, and a high profile, it's an ironic Stan who concludes; "In a way I think I've come the long way round. I've been right out there all the way, but now I've come back (along with the resurgence of the blues). It's like poetic justice, if you like. Eventually it all comes back to you”.

Here are some clips from the new Still Live After All These Years CD:	Broadband (CD quality)	Dial-Up (AM radio)
(You Are) The Sweetest Little Thing
The Chicken Shack Opera
(Oh Please) Doctor Brown

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