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band

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, released in 1973.

Track listing

Side one

#"You Know You Could Be Right" ( Stan Webb) – 3:47 #"Revelation" (Webb) – 5:13 #"Prudence's Party" (Webb) – 3:14 #"Too Late to Cry" ( Lonnie Johnson) – 3:10 #"Stan the Man" (Webb) – 4:25

Side two

#"Unlucky Boy" (

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, William Dupree) – 2:34 #"As Time Goes Passing By" (Webb) – 4:46 #"Jammin' with Ash" (Webb) – 7:04 #"He Knows the Rules" (

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) – 4:05

CD bonus tracks

#"As Time Goes Passing By"

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– 3:33 #"Hear Me Cry" – 3:55 #"Think" – 2:16 #"It's Easy" – 4:55 #"Doctor Brown" – 3:01 *ABOVE TRACKS 3 TO 5 from Stan Webb's Chicken Shack – The Creeper (1978) *Bass Guitar –

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*Drums – Ed Spevock *Engineer – Manfred Neuner *Guitar –

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*Guitar, Vocals – Stan Webb *Keyboards, Producer –

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*Tenor Saxophone, Soprano Saxophone – Dave Winthrop *Notes: Recorded at Tonstudio Hiltpoltstein (West) Germany Nov/Dec 1977.

Personnel

* Stan Webb –

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*Paul Hancox –

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*Chris Mercer –

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s *Nick Pickett – solo violin on track 2, 'Revelation' *Terry Noonan – string arrangements

Additional personnel

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– engineer, remixing *Anton Matthews – engineer *Neil Slaven – liner notes, producer *David Wedgbury – photography

References

1973 albums Chicken Shack albums Deram Records albums albums recorded at Olympic Sound Studios {{blues-album-stub