Imagination Lady

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Imagination Lady
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Studio album by
ReleasedFebruary 2, 1972
RecordedOctober 1971
Studio Olympic Studios, London
Genre Blues, hard rock
Length38:00
Label Deram
Producer Neil Slaven
Chicken Shack chronology
Accept
(1970)
Imagination Lady
(1972)
Unlucky Boy
(1973)

Imagination Lady is the fifth studio album by the blues band Chicken Shack, released in 1972 on the Deram record label. [1] It was reissued by Esoteric Recordings in July 2012 on CD in the UK. [2]

Contents

Track listing

All tracks composed by Stan Webb except where indicated: [1]

Side one

  1. "Crying Won't Help You Now" – 5:10 (Hudson Whittaker)
  2. "Daughter of the Hillside" – 3:53
  3. "If I Were a Carpenter" – 6:35 (Tim Hardin)
  4. "Going Down" – 3:33 (Don Nix)

Side two

  1. "Poor Boy" – 5:11
  2. "Telling Your Fortune" – 11:11
  3. "The Loser" – 2:32 [1]

Personnel

Chicken Shack

Production

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References

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