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Wanda Jackson: I Remember Elvis
by Mike Perciaccante
Sometimes referred as the female Elvis Presley, often called the Queen of Rockabilly, Wanda Jackson was, and is, the first great female rocker. While dating Presley (yes, he was her boyfriend) and touring on the same bill in the mid 1950s, The King himself encouraged the young Jackson to mix country with jumpy rock 'n' roll--and the rest, as they say, is history. Fifty years later, this long overdue set serves as both the followup to 2003's Heart Trouble and ...
read moreOmnivore Recordings Chronicles Classic Years Of Wanda Jackson, George Jones And Merle Haggard
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Ten-inch vinyl EPs made available on Black Friday provided a sneak preview of Merle Haggard’s The Complete ’60s Capitol Singles, George Jones’ The Complete United Artists Solo Singles, and Wanda Jackson’s The Best of the Classic Capitol Singles. LOS ANGELES, Calif. — Omnivore Records will release definitive compilations by three giants of country and rockabilly music — Wanda Jackson, Merle Haggard and George Jones — on February 12, 2013. Having released musical appetizers in the form of ten-inch vinyl EPs ...
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Interview: Wanda Jackson (PT. 3)
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Wanda Jackson is still on the road performing. She'll be at the Highline Ballroom in New York on October 12. I caught her at a one-room blues bar on the outskirts of Memphis when I was down there. She was escorted to the stage by her husband Wendell Goodman and she proceeded to rock the house. When I saw Wanda the next evening at Graceland, we sat close together on two director's chairs, and I was able to look into ...
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Interview: Wanda Jackson (PT. 2)
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
What was it like to sit in the Jungle Room at Graceland with Wanda Jackson? Pretty neat. If you've visited Graceland, you know that this roomwith its grass-green carpeting and Hawaiian themeis off limits on tours. Small by today's McMansion standardsthe Housewives of Any City, USA, have have larger and more elaborate homesGraceland remains larger than life. It's the place where Elvis Presley lived after he won the American Dream lotteryand was consumed by it. Rockabilly star Wanda Jackson knew ...
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Interview: Wanda Jackson (PT. 1)
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Rockabilly is nothing more than jazz, blues and country all mixed around. You can hear the jazz and blues influence in the Western swing artists of the late '40s and early '50s. And like blues players, many original rockabilly artists came from poverty, trying to use music as a way out of their family's plight. As I write in today's Wall Street Journal (or go here), there aren't many of these pioneer rockabilly artists left, particularly on the female side. ...
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