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Originally Posted by Mr Scarrott
I found Christine's performance of Jumping at Shadows (helpfully illustrated by a picture of Stevie, but no matter) and very enjoyable it was too. You can really hear how her work with Chicken Shack and the earlier Mac informed some of her later stuff. You can hear the blues in Oh Daddy and Brown Eyes, not in an in-your-face way, but they're there, somehow. And it's not that much of a hop from Get like you used to be to Don't Stop.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcXfhXF9vDU |
As Mick once said of "Don't Stop": "Chris could have topped that track ten years before she wrote it. The difference now was there was all this cream on top and we were running with it." Mixed metaphors aside, Mick has a point--the song is clearly from the pen of the woman who wrote those early Chicken Shack songs. "Prove Your Love," "Warm Ways," and YMLF all seem more sophisticated but you can still hear aspects of the old four-bar blues in even her least bluesy material. Her affinity for the blues is what Lindsey once said separated FM from other California bands. It made the difference. Of course, Mick and John didn't hurt either
