Plain and Fancy: 10/03/26

Saturday, October 3, 2026

rep>>> Chicken Shack - Accept (1970 uk, splendid blues rock, 2005 japan remaster and expanded)

Chicken Shack was the product of eccentric guitarist Stan Webb, vetera of several R 'n' B outfits including the Blue 4, Sound Five and The Shades Of Blue. The latter active between 1964 and 1965 included Webb, Christin Perfect (Piano, Vocals) and Andy Silvester (Bass), as well the future Traffic saxophonost Chris Wood. Webb and Silvester formed the core of the original Chicken Shack, who enjoyed a lond residency at Hamburg's famed Star Club before returning to England in 1967.

Perfect then rejoined the line-up which was augmented by several drummers until the arrival of Londoner Dave Bidwell. Producer Mike Vernon then signed the quartet to his Blue Horizon Records label.

Their fourth and last album with Blue Horizon, and the last with Paul Raymond, Andy Silvester and Dave Bidwell was Accept, released in July 1970. It certainly showed a further marked change in style, probably reflecting the fact that quite a few of the tracks were joint Webb/Raymond compositions. Interestingly Blue Horizon publicity material for Accept ran the slogan "If you think Chicken Shack just plays the blues you haven't been paying attention."

Tracks

1. Diary Of Your Life - 3:06
2. Pocket (Stan Webb, Paul Raymond) - 3:24
3. Never Ever (Stan Webb, Paul Raymond) - 2:43
4. Sad Clown (Stan Webb, Paul Raymond) - 2:44
5. Maudie (Stan Webb, Paul Raymond) - 2:53
6. Telling Your Fortune - 4:25
7. Tired Eyes - 2:11
8. Some Other Time - 3:04
9. Going Round (Stan Webb, Paul Raymond) - 2:36
10.Andalucian Blues (Stan Webb, Paul Raymond) - 2:19
11.You Know You Did You Did - 6:32
12.She Didn t Use Her Loaf (Stan Webb, Paul Raymond) - 4:07
13.Apple Tart - 3:08
14.Hideaway (Freddie King, Sonny Thompson) - 5:07
All material written by Stan Webb except where indicated

Chicken Shack
*Stan Webb – Guitar, Vocals
*Paul Raymond – Keyboards, Vocals
*Andy Sylvester – Bass Guitar
*Dave Bidwell – Drums

with

*Alison Young - Vocals (Track 8)

Chicken Shack
1968 40 Blue Fingers, Freshly Packed And Ready To Serve
1969 Chicken Shack - 100 Ton Chicken (2013 xpanded)
1973 Unlucky Boy (2013 reissue)

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rep>>> The Blend - Anytime Delight (1979 us, pleasant hard rock with southern traces, Vinyl issue)

The Blend was a '70s rock quintet from Maine led by singer/guitarist Jim Drown .Signed to MCA and accomplished two albums. and had combined sales of nearly 130,000 records. They even got on Billboard's top 100 at #74 with a bullet.

The Blend had it all. All five were lead singers and songwriters, and every show was an addictive train ride that led to a climactic explosion several times.

The Blend gained the experience of touring and opening huge shows for a long list of great rock and roll acts (The Who, ZZ Top, Hall and Oates, Charlie Daniels, etc). Their second album under the title "Anytime Delight" released in 1979 and it’s a pleasant hard rockin with some smokin southern blasts.

Tracks

1. Feel Like I'm Crazy - 3:49

2. Money (Steven Dore) - 5:09

3. Anytime Delight (Steven Dore) - 3:09

4. I'm Not Losin' - 3:15

5. Sky High (Steven Dore, Jeff Joseph) - 4:18

6. Misty Blue (Donnie "D.P." Pomber) - 4:01

7. She Can Take Me - 3:26

8. Will You Be Mine (Steven Dore) - 3:15

9. For Crying Out Loud - 1:58

10.The Prize - 7:03

All songs by Jim "J.D." Drown except where stated

The Blend
*Steven Dore - Guitar, Piano
*Jim "J.D." Drown - Guitar
*Ken Holt - Bass, Vocals
*Donnie "D.P." Pomber - Guitar, Piano
*Skip Smith - Drums

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rep>>> Moonstone - Moonstone (1973 us, marvelous acoustic folk rock, 2006 edition)

Moonstone members lived in Winnipeg Manitoba Canada and released a completely left unnoticed LP on the private Canadian label Kot’Ai, recorded in Montreal somewhere in the early ‘70’s, and, like the label says, what a great discovery this is indeed. On the first track, female singer Carolyn MacLeod sounds like a cross between Vasthi Bunyan and perhaps Linda Perhacs.

All tracks have delicate and gentle fingerpicking guitar. There’s one short instrumental based upon guitars only, “Fina’s Birthday Song”. Often the male vocals lead and there are nicely worked out vocal harmonies. “In Case”, “Cointreau” and “Relative Hoak” and the melancholic “Said Gently” (with piano only) does this with a definite West Coast feeling and harmony, at times close to Crosby,Stills, Nash & Young, performed with a similar gentleness as the other tracks. “Black Blind Light” is a bit more psychedelic, with flute and guitars improvisations.

Last track, “Hope you can see” is the most melancholic song of the album, a track which can stand well against another favourite folkpsych track favourite of mine which I mentioned before in another review (of The Search Party, mentioning the similar track "All but this”), namely Jefferson Airplain’s "Coming back to me"