Unlucky Boy

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Unlucky Boy
Unluckyboychickenshack.jpg
Studio album by
ReleasedJuly 1973
Studio Olympic Studios, London; Island Studio, London
Genre Blues rock
Label Deram
Producer Neil Slaven
Chicken Shack chronology
Imagination Lady
(1972)
Unlucky Boy
(1973)
Goodbye Chicken Shack
(1974)

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

Contents

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]

Personnel

Additional personnel

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Hal Horowitz. "Unlucky Boy - Chicken Shack | Songs, Reviews, Credits". AllMusic . Retrieved 2016-03-05.
  2. 1 2 "Unlucky Boy - Chicken Shack | Credits". AllMusic . Retrieved 2016-03-05.