40 Blue Fingers, Freshly Packed and Ready to Serve

• Artist: Chicken Shack
• Rating:
• Release Date: 1968
• Type: Instrumental
• Genre: Rock

Review

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. ~ Dan Forte, All Music Guide

Tracks

Track Title	Composers	Performers	Time
The Letter	B.B. King, Jules Taub	Chicken Shack
Lonesome Whistle Train Blues		Chicken Shack
When the Train Comes Back	Christine Perfect	Chicken Shack
San-Ho-Zay	Freddie King, Sonny Thompson	Chicken Shack
King of the World		Chicken Shack
See See Baby		Chicken Shack
First Time I Met the Blues	Eurreal Montgomery	Chicken Shack
Webbed Feet		Chicken Shack
You Ain't No Good		Chicken Shack
What You Did Last Night		Chicken Shack

Credits

Christine McVie (Keyboards), Dave Bidwell (Drums), Andy Silvester (Bass), Dick Heckstall-Smith (Saxophone), John Almond (Saxophone), Alan Ellis (Trumpet), Christine McVie (Vocals), Mike Vernon (Producer), Stan Webb (Guitar), Stan Webb (Vocals)