Wanda Jackson Announces November UK Show & Tickets
Tuesday, 16 August 2011
Written by Jon Stickler
Recent inductee into the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame, the legendary ‘Queen of Rockabilly’, Wanda Jackson, has today announced that she will be heading to the UK to perform a very special show at London’s Scala this November. The show comes in support of her new album ‘The Party Ain’t Over’ produced by none other than Jack White, formerly of the White Stripes.
Jackson was recently inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, honoured with a long-time-coming, 'Early Influence' accolade for her pivotal role in the evolution of popular music, especially where female artists were concerned. As a teenager in the mid-50s, the diminutive Jackson was the first woman to perform unadulterated rock and roll. The young Jackson, an Oklahoma native, came across as both gritty and glamorous; a playfully suggestive growl to her voice matched the daring, handmade outfits she wore, short skirts and fringed dresses that have inspired would-be bad girls for decades to come.
‘The Pary Ain’t Over’, produced and arranged by White at his Nashville studio, White and Jackson have come up with inspired and wide-ranging song choices that reflect Jackson’s long history with country, gospel, and even the big-band music she remembers from her childhood as well as with rock and roll. White himself backs Jackson on lead guitar, cutting loose with solos that are as ferocious and fun as Jackson’s vocals; in fact, the entire band that White assembled is similarly uninhibited, matching Jackson’s and White’s intensity and just as often, their humor. Though the work is carefully arranged, the resulting tracks feel like one unforgettable after-hours session, with everyone in thrall to the woman at the heart of the tunes
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