{"id":3447,"date":"2011-08-18T23:13:14","date_gmt":"2011-08-19T06:13:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=3447"},"modified":"2011-08-18T23:13:14","modified_gmt":"2011-08-19T06:13:14","slug":"wanda-jackson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2011\/08\/wanda-jackson\/","title":{"rendered":"WANDA JACKSON"},"content":{"rendered":"

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WANDA JACKSON<\/h1>\n

The Queen of Rockabilly proves you\u2019re never too old to earn new Stripes<\/strong><\/h2>\n

When the blues had a baby called rock \u2019n\u2019 roll, Wanda Jackson was there for the delivery. \u201cBack when I was touring with Elvis in 1957, we didn\u2019t even call it rock \u2019n\u2019 roll,\u201d she remembers. \u201cIt was just \u2018the kind of songs the kids liked.\u2019\u201d Jackson credits her then-boyfriend Presley with encouraging her to branch out from her country roots and \u201ctry this new style.\u201d A few years later, wailing suggestively raucous hits like \u201cFujiyama Mama\u201d and \u201cMean, Mean Man,\u201d Jackson was being hailed as the Queen of Rockabilly.<\/p>\n

Five decades later, the 73-year-old legend is once again connecting with \u201cthe kids\u201d by collaborating with producer and former White Stripes frontman Jack White on The Party Ain\u2019t Over<\/em>. The album wraps Jackson\u2019s sandpaper growl in wild Stax-goes-surfin\u2019 arrangements and White\u2019s fuzzed-out guitar riffs. \u201cIt was a lot of fun, but honestly, I had to be dragged kicking and screaming into the studio,\u201d Jackson says. \u201cI didn\u2019t know Jack at all, and I was thinking, \u2018I can\u2019t do contemporary rock stuff, and even if I could, I\u2019m not sure my fans would even be interested.\u2019\u201d White assured her that he didn\u2019t want to change her sound, just give it a little makeover. \u201cHe said all the things you want to hear from a producer,\u201d Jackson says with a laugh. \u201cAnd I felt his heart was so much into the project. The only surprising thing was that he wanted more of the younger Wanda Jackson. That spirit and that growl, which I was able to do for him.\u201d<\/p>\n

That same spirit helped Jackson crash the gates of the man\u2019s world of rock \u2019n\u2019 roll and hold her own on tours with Presley,\u00a0Jerry Lee Lewis and Buddy Holly. \u201cIn the 1950s a woman was either a secretary, a nurse or a housewife,\u201d Jackson says. \u201cBut I never even prepared for any other kind of career. So I guess I had<\/em> to make it, because I wasn\u2019t qualified for anything else. My only passion was music and singing and entertaining, and I always kept my main goal in front of me.\u201d With her husband and manager of 50 years, Wendell Goodman, by her side, Jackson has already started spreading her new Party <\/em>around the world. \u201cThe love I get from the audience is what keeps me going,\u201d she says. \u201cI\u2019m just pleased to know that this old gal still has<\/p>\n

something left to give.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2013Bill DeMain<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

WANDA JACKSON The Queen of Rockabilly proves you\u2019re never too old to earn new Stripes When the blues had a baby called rock \u2019n\u2019 roll, Wanda Jackson was there for the delivery. \u201cBack when I was touring with Elvis in 1957, we didn\u2019t even call it rock \u2019n\u2019 roll,\u201d she remembers. \u201cIt was just \u2018the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[1807,10156,2408],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3447"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3447"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3449,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3447\/revisions\/3449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}