One of the many British band who rode the blues boom that hit that country in
the late 1960s, Chicken Shack was led by guitarist and singer Stan Webb. The
group began to take shape in the middle of the decade with drummer Alan Morley
and bass player Andy Silvester. The secret of their success came in 1967 when
they brough aboard singer and keyboard player Christine Perfect. It was this
line-up that recorded the group’s most prominent album, 1968’s 40 Blue Fingers,
Freshly Packed and Ready to Serve, a collection of 10 songs that consisted
primarily of traditionalist covers of such...