Rock Blues

Chicken Shack are a British blues band, founded in the 1965 by Stan Webb (guitar and vocals), Andy Silvester (bass guitar), and Alan Morley (drums), who were later joined by Christine Perfect (vocals and keyboards) in 1968. Front man and guitarist Stan Webb was born in London in 1946. The group began their blues playing on the Blue Horizon label in a similar style to the early Fleetwood Mac. Singer Christine Perfect left after marrying John McVie (bassist) with Fleetwood Mac. Christine later joined Fleetwood Mac in their second reincarnation.

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One man, one guitar, and a lifetime of influences make up Hard Times, the unprecedented debut album by Marcus Bonfanti, released on The Guitar Label on 24th November 2008. That lifetime may be just 26 years long, but the young Londoner, of Italian and British parentage, has packed enough playing into that time to create a distinctive sound, which may doff a cap to the very heart of the blues but is entirely his own.

This is A.E.F.: music and talent meeting in an atomic reaction that unleashes artistic energy of awing proportions. The band describes its music as "structured" rock with blues influences, but whatever it's called, it's good. Beyond good. Masterful, original, accomplished, all those words music critics like to throw around. In short, this music is a conveyance of the heart and soul of a group of band members that want to speak to the audience but in a way that entertains and inspires. Through music, in other words.