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Released
  
June 1968 (1968-06)

40 Blue Fingers, Freshly Packed and Ready to Serve (1968)
  
O.K. Ken? (1969)

Release date
  
1968

Label
  
Rewind Records

Length
  
36:50

Artist
  
Chicken Shack

Producer
  
Mike Vernon

Genre
  
Blues

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Recorded
  
5–7 February 1968 CBS Studios, London

Similar
  
Chicken Shack albums, Blues albums

40 Blue Fingers, Freshly Packed and Ready to Serve is the debut studio album by the blues band Chicken Shack, released in 1968. The album reached number 12 in the UK Albums Chart.

Contents

This album has three Freddy King covers; "Lonesome Whistle Blues" (written by Rudolph Toombs), and "See See Baby" from Freddy King Sings; and "San-Ho-Zay" from Let's Hide Away and Dance Away.

Chicken Shack

  • Stan Webb – guitar, vocals
  • Christine Perfect – organ, vocals, piano
  • Andy Silvester – bass
  • Dave Bidwell – drums

    • Additional personnel

  • Alan Ellis – trumpet
  • Dick Heckstall-Smith – tenor saxophone
  • Johnny Almond – alto saxophone

    • Production

  • Producer – Mike Vernon
  • Engineer – Mike Ross
  • Studio – CBS
  • Photography and design – Terence Ibbott

    • Songs

    1The Letter4:29
    2Lonesome Whistle Blues3:04
    3When the Train Comes Back3:36

    References

    40 Blue Fingers, Freshly Packed and Ready to Serve Wikipedia
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