Unlucky Boy Explained

Unlucky Boy
Type:	Studio album
Artist:	Chicken Shack
Cover:	Unluckyboychickenshack.jpg
Released:	July 1973
Studio:	Olympic Studios, London; Island Studio, London
Genre:	Blues rock
Label:	Deram
Producer:	Neil Slaven
Prev Title:	Imagination Lady
Prev Year:	1972
Next Title:	Goodbye Chicken Shack
Next Year:	1974

Unlucky Boy is the sixth studio album by the blues band Chicken Shack, released in 1973.^[1]

Track listing

Side one

1. "You Know You Could Be Right" (Stan Webb) – 3:47
2. "Revelation" (Webb) – 5:13
3. "Prudence's Party" (Webb) – 3:14
4. "Too Late to Cry" (Lonnie Johnson) – 3:10
5. "Stan the Man" (Webb) – 4:25

Side two

1. "Unlucky Boy" (Big Mama Thornton, William Dupree) – 2:34
2. "As Time Goes Passing By" (Webb) – 4:46
3. "Jammin' with Ash" (Webb) – 7:04
4. "He Knows the Rules" (Jimmy McCracklin) – 4:05^[1]

CD bonus tracks

1. "As Time Goes Passing By" [Single version] – 3:33
2. "Hear Me Cry" – 3:55
3. "Think" – 2:16
4. "It's Easy" – 4:55
5. "Doctor Brown" – 3:01^[1]

• ABOVE TRACKS 3 TO 5 from Stan Webb's Chicken Shack – The Creeper (1978)
• Bass Guitar – Paul Martinez
• Drums – Ed Spevock
• Engineer – Manfred Neuner
• Guitar – Robbie Blunt
• Guitar, Vocals – Stan Webb
• Keyboards, Producer – Tony Ashton
• Tenor Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone – Dave Winthrop
• Notes: Recorded at Tonstudio Hiltpoltstein (West) Germany Nov/Dec 1977.

Personnel

• Stan Webb – guitar, vocals
• Bob Daisley – bass guitar
• Tony Ashton – piano
• Paul Hancox – drums, percussion
• Chris Mercer – saxophones
• Nick Pickett - solo violin on track 2, 'Revelation'
• Terry Noonan - string arrangements^[2]

Additional personnel

• John Burns - Engineer, remixing
• Anton Matthews - Engineer
• Neil Slaven - Liner notes, producer
• David Wedgbury - Photography^[2]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Hal Horowitz. Unlucky Boy - Chicken Shack | Songs, Reviews, Credits . . 2016-03-05.
2. Web site: Unlucky Boy - Chicken Shack | Credits . . 2016-03-05.