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Stan Webb 8.45pm

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Legendary blues outfit Stan Webb & Chicken Shack are heading back to Newcastle!

This year Stan Webb & Chicken Shack launched their new "Still Alive After All These Years" album on Mystic Records. The new live album is a timely release as Stan Webb is celebrating 40 years as a Pro musician (39 years of which have seen him fronting Chicken Shack on and off).

Stan Webb is to be found at his best firing off his unique big toned blues riffs in the company of his long time band featuring Jim Rudge on bass, Gary Davies on guitar and Mick Jones on drums. The special live recording 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 "Id' 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 live album gloriously demonstrates that he has absorbed the best of all prevailing styles of the time. What is clear is that Webb has matured as both a player and vocalist and is arguably playing far better than ever before with the problems that befell his career in the early 70’s are long behind him. 

"Christine Perfect (later McVie) left Chicken Shack to join 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, Webb soldiered on with Chicken Shack.  Lean times followed with the collapse of the record label Blues Horizon and 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 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 guitarist with the emphasis on style and playing. Albums such as "40 Blue Fingers"; "OK Ken" and "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, touring the US with Kim 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 big selling albums such as "Plucking Good" and "Changes".

A high profile, late 80's charity gig with Eric Clapton saw Webb 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 into the new century. With a fine new live 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.”