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Featuring Christine Perfect (better known as the future Christine McVie of Fleetwood Mac) the British ensemble Chicken Shack offers up a solid set of blues-influenced rock on their 1968 LP, fully titled 40 Blue Fingers Freshly Packed And Ready To Serve.

This LP was a promising debut, especially noteworthy for Stan Webb's Freddie King-inspired guitar playing and Christine Perfect's vocals. Webb does justice to his mentor with two instrumentals, King's "San-Ho-Zay" and his own "Webbed Feet," and Christine proves the ideal counterpart: one of the few pianists paying homage to King's longtime collaborator Sonny Thompson.

It remains their finest work; Perfect left the band in 1969 when she married John McVie of Fleetwood Mac. Pianist Paul Raymond, bassist Andy Silvester, and drummer Dave Bidwell all left in 1971 to join Savoy Brown.


Tracks
1. The Letter - 4:27
2. Lonesome Whistle Blues - 3:01
3. When The Train Comes Back (Christine Perfect) 3:31
4. San-Ho-Zay (Freddie King, Sonny Thompson) 3:03
5. King Of The World - 5:00
6. See See Baby - 2:23
7. First Time I Met The Blues - 6:24
8. Webbed Feet - 2:52
9. You Ain't No Good (C. Perfect) - 3:36
10.What You Did Last Night - 4:40
11.It's OK With Me Baby (C. Perfect) - 2:37
12.When My Left Eye Jumps (Willie Dixon, Al Perkins) - 6:28
13.Hey Baby (C. Perfect, S. Webb, Mike Vernon) - 3:43
All songs by Stan Webb except as else stated
Bonus tracks 11-13

Chicken Shack
*Stan Webb – Guitar, Vocals
*Christine Perfect – Keyboards, Vocals
*Andy Silvester – Bass Guitar
*Dave Bidwell – Drums
Additional Musicians
*Alan Ellis – Trumpet
*Dick Heckstall-Smith – Tenor Saxophone
*Johnny Almond – Alto Saxophone