| O.K. Ken? | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | Chicken Shack |
| Cover: | Okkenchickenshack.jpg |
| Released: | February 1969[1] |
| Recorded: | 24 June and 22–23 October 1968 |
| Studio: | CBS Studios, London |
| Genre: | Blues |
| Length: | 38:21 |
| Label: | Blue Horizon |
| Producer: | Mike Vernon |
| Prev Title: | 40 Blue Fingers, Freshly Packed and Ready to Serve |
| Prev Year: | 1968 |
| Next Title: | 100 Ton Chicken |
| Next Year: | 1969 |
O.K. Ken? is the second studio album by the blues band Chicken Shack, released in February 1969.[2] O.K Ken? reached number 9 in the UK Albums Chart, three places higher than its predecessor, 40 Blue Fingers, Freshly Packed and Ready to Serve.[3]
This album was Christine Perfect's last album as a member of Chicken Shack.
Their second LP, O.K. Ken? was released in February 1969 and also garnered chart success just like the prior album 40 Blue Fingers, Freshly Packed and Ready to Serve. While it did surpass the first album by reaching No. 9 on the British charts, unlike the initial LP, it quickly dropped out of the charts due to the lack of an album single to support it. The band then decided to release a song from the first album, "When The Train Comes Back” (BH 57-3146), after overdubbing a horn section over the original track. The flipside of the single was “Hey Baby”, an outtake of the O.K. Ken? album sessions. Christine Perfect composed and provided piano and lead vocals on both single tracks but the single release was only mildly successful.
Stan Webb wrote four of the songs on the album and co-wrote two others with Christine Perfect. Webb sang all of his compositions and Perfect sang on the Perfect/Webb collaboration, "Get Like You Use to Be". Webb and Perfect sang a duet on the other Perfect/Webb collaboration, "A Woman Is The Blues". Additionally, Perfect sang on covers, "I Wanna See My Baby" and "Mean Old World". The "Pony Trap" and "Remington Ride" are both instrumentals.
The entire album and the rest of the Chicken Shack sessions on Blue Horizon were made available on the CD compilation Chicken Shack - The Complete Blue Horizon Sessions (2007).[4]
Following her departure, Christine Perfect joined Fleetwood Mac in July 1970, and "Get Like You Used to Be" became a staple of Fleetwood Mac's live act from 1970 to 1975. Guitarists Danny Kirwan, Jeremy Spencer, Peter Green, Bob Welch, Bob Weston, & Lindsey Buckingham all featured on different performances of the song throughout the band's ever-changing lineups.