''Accept'' is the fourth studio album by the

blues Blues is a music genre and musical form which originated in the Deep South of the United States around the 1860s. Blues incorporated spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts, chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads from the Afr ...

band,

Chicken Shack Chicken Shack are a British blues band, founded in the mid-1960s by Stan Webb (guitar and vocals), Andy Silvester (bass guitar), and Alan Morley (drums), who were later joined by Christine Perfect (later McVie) (vocals and keyboards) in 1967. ...

, released in 1970. ''Accept'' was Chicken Shack's last album on the Blue Horizon label. This album was also the last for

Andy Sylvester Andrew Frederick Silvester (born 16 June 1947, Kidderminster, Worcestershire, England) is a British bassist and multi-instrumentalist. Silvester has played in various bands during his career, most notably as co-founder of both Chicken Shack and ...

, Dave Bidwell and Paul Raymond as members of Chicken Shack. It also marks a departure from pure blues to a more progressive and psychedelic sound.

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Stan Webb and Paul Raymond.

Side one

# "Diary of Your Life" # "Pocket"* # "Never Ever"* # "Sad Clown"* # "Maudie"* # "Telling Your Fortune"

Side two

# "Tired Eyes" # "Some Other Time"* # "Going Round" # "Andalucian Blues" # "You Knew You Did You Did" # "She Didn't Use Her Loaf"

Personnel

Chicken Shack

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– guitar, vocals * Paul Raymond –

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, vocals *

– bass guitar *Dave Bidwell –

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Production

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

Trivia

The album title inspired the German heavy metal band

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to change its name from ''Band X'' to ''Accept''.

References

{{Authority control 1970 albums Chicken Shack albums Blue Horizon Records albums Albums produced by Mike Vernon (record producer)