Doors 7.30pm

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Stan Webb 8.45pm

Tickets £12.50

Tickets £12.50

Tickets available on the door from 7.30pm.

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CannyGigs favourite and legendary blues outfit Stan Webb & Chicken Shack are heading back to Newcastle!

Blues Guitar Genius

The blues guitar of 60’s heroes like Peter Green and Eric Clapton is a sound that is as popular today in the Northeast as it was way back then. The problem is that neither Green nor Clapton visit the region that often to give the fans a dose of those gut wrenching guitar riffs. But there is a fix this month.

Legendary blues guitarist Stan Webb and his loyal band Chicken Shack, return to the region in March. Webb’s recent album Still Alive After All These Years was a timely release and celebration of 40 years as a pro musician. It is also a fabulous recording that reminds everyone that a great guitarist like Webb is still regularly touring the blues dens of Britain and giving the fans their fix.

Webb is to be found at his best firing off his unique big toned blues riffs backed by his long-time band featuring Jim Rudge on bass, Gary Davies on guitar and Mick Jones on drums. The live CD also features a mighty horn section who bring their full might to bear on the very best of Chicken Shack’s favourites.

Best known for his chart hits I’d Rather Go Blind and Tears In The Wind, Webb stuck with his love of the blues when many around him went psychedelic in the late 60's. Ironically the live CD gloriously demonstrates that he has absorbed the best of all prevailing styles from that time. What is clear is that Webb has matured as both a player and vocalist and is arguably playing far better than ever before.

There was pressure to leave the blues back then. "Christine [Perfect - later McVie] left Chicken Shack to join Fleetwood Mac and my record company wanted me to change, but blues is the music I was born to play" comments Webb. Sticking to your beliefs can bring lean times which happened with the collapse of the Blues Horizon label. It wasn't until the talented guitarist received a major boost from his blues idol, the legendary 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 also Freddie King who inspired Webb's delicate vocal vibrato and sustain and above all else his emotive tone. Together with his characteristic throaty falsetto, Webb has established himself as a hard gigging blues guitarist 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 classic Poor Boy, have provided proof of an uncompromising, but magnificent guitar talent.

Webb has enjoyed stints with Canned Heat (the only UK guitarist to ever play with them), Savoy Brown and touring the US with Kim Simmons as The Boogie Brothers. Webb returned to continue working the European blues scene and has been rewarded by a steadfast loyal following that have given him more big selling albums such as Plucking Good and Changes.