Chicken Shack
O.K. Ken (1968)
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Length:  42:21
    Track Listing:
      1.  
      		 Baby's Got Me Crying    2:34
      2.  
      		 The Right Way Is My Way    2:33
      3.  
      		 Get Like You Used To Be    3:49
      4.  
      		 Pony And Trap    3:20
      5.  
      		 Tell Me    4:50
      6.  
      		 A Woman Is The Blues    3:28
      7.  
      		 I Wanna See My Baby    3:53
      8.  
      		 Remington Ride    3:02
      9.  
      		 Fishing In Your River    4:40
      10.  
      		 Mean Old World    3:44
      11.  
      		 Sweet Sixteen    6:23
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      Audio CD (1993)
      Format: Import
      Label: BGO - Beat Goes On Records, England

      Track Listing:

      1. Baby's Got Me Crying
      2. Right Way Is My Way
      3. Get Like I Used to Be
      4. Pony and Trap
      5. Tell Me
      6. Woman Is the Blues
      7. I Wanna See My Baby
      8. Remington Ride
      9. Fishing in Your River
      10. Mean Old World
      11. Sweet Sixteen

      Reviewer: A music fan

      This was early days for Christine Perfect (later Christine McVie),
      who would go on with Fleetwood Mac, and Dave Bidwell and Terry
      Noonan who would join Savoy Brown. Early blues stylings mixed with
      '60s Britpop yields a nice addition to your British blues portfolio.

      Review by Richie Unterberger

      This was Chicken Shack's most popular album, making the British
      Top Ten. If you're looking for relics of the British Blues Boom,
      however, you'd be much better off with Ten Years After, to say
      nothing of legitimate artists such as Fleetwood Mac and John
      Mayall. British blues at its best could be exciting (if usually
      derivative), but it's difficult to fathom how this relentlessly
      plodding, monotonous effort met with such success. Stan Webb took
      most of the songwriting and vocal chores, emulating the
      slow-burning Chicago boogie with little skill or subtlety (though
      he wasn't a bad guitarist). Christine Perfect did write and sing
      a few songs, but these unfortunately found both her compositional
      and vocal chops at a most callow stage of development. To nail
      the coffin, most of the songs were preceded by excruciating comic
      dialog that made Cheech & Chong sound sophisticated in comparison.

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