Unlucky Boy
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Unlucky Boy is the sixth album by the blues
Blues
Blues is the name given to both a musical form and a music genre that originated in African-American communities of primarily the "Deep South" of the United States at the end of the 19th century from spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads...

 band, Chicken Shack
Chicken Shack
Chicken Shack are a British blues band, founded in the mid-1960s by Stan Webb , Andy Silvester , and Alan Morley , who were later joined by Christine Perfect in 1968.-Career:...

, released in 1973.

Side one

  1. "You Know You Could Be Right" (Stan Webb
    Stan Webb
    Stan Webb is the frontman and lead guitarist with the blues band, Chicken Shack.-Career:...

    ) – 3:47
  2. "Revelation" (Webb) – 5:13
  3. "Prudence's Party" (Webb) – 3:14
  4. "Too Late to Cry" (Lonnie Johnson
    Lonnie Johnson
    Alonzo "Lonnie" Johnson was an American blues and jazz singer/guitarist and songwriter who pioneered the role of jazz guitar and is recognized as the first to play single-string guitar solos...

    ) – 3:10
  5. "Stan the Man" (Webb) – 4:25

Side two

  1. "Unlucky Boy" (F. Thornton, William Dupree
    Champion Jack Dupree
    William Thomas Dupree, best known as Champion Jack Dupree, was an American blues pianist. His birth date is disputed, given as July 4, July 10, and July 23, in the years 1908, 1909, or 1910. He died on January 21, 1992.-Biography:...

    ) – 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
    Jimmy McCracklin
    Jimmy McCracklin is an American pianist, vocalist, and songwriter. His style contains West Coast blues, Jump blues, and R&B. Over a career that has spanned seven decades, he says he has written almost a thousand songs and has recorded hundreds of them...

    ) – 4:05

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

Personnel

  • Stan Webb
    Stan Webb
    Stan Webb is the frontman and lead guitarist with the blues band, Chicken Shack.-Career:...

     – guitar
    Guitar
    The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...

    , vocals
    Singing
    Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...

  • Bob Daisley
    Bob Daisley
    Robert John "Bob" Daisley is an Australian musician, bassist and lyricist who has performed in genres of rock, blues, R&B, hard rock and metal.-Early career:...

     – bass guitar
    Bass guitar
    The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....

  • Tony Ashton
    Tony Ashton
    Tony Ashton was an English rock pianist, keyboardist, singer, composer, producer and artist.-Biography:...

     – piano
    Piano
    The piano is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. It is one of the most popular instruments in the world. Widely used in classical and jazz music for solo performances, ensemble use, chamber music and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to composing and rehearsal...

  • Paul Hancox – drums
    Drum kit
    A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....

    , percussion
    Percussion instrument
    A percussion instrument is any object which produces a sound when hit with an implement or when it is shaken, rubbed, scraped, or otherwise acted upon in a way that sets the object into vibration...

  • Chris Mercer – saxophone
    Saxophone
    The saxophone is a conical-bore transposing musical instrument that is a member of the woodwind family. Saxophones are usually made of brass and played with a single-reed mouthpiece similar to that of the clarinet. The saxophone was invented by the Belgian instrument maker Adolphe Sax in 1846...

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