Wanda Jackson has been named the Artist of the Day by Paste. She spoke with the magazine about her forthcoming album, The Party Ain't Over, and about some of the things she's picked up over the years working with the likes of producer Jack White and Elvis Presley. "Many consider her to be the first woman to write and perform rock ‘n’ roll," says Paste. On the new album, she proves that her "searing rock sensibility and trademark primal growl stand little changed."
Wanda Jackson has been named the Artist of the Day by Paste magazine. She spoke with the magazine about her forthcoming album, The Party Ain't Over, due out this Tuesday, January 25, on Third Man / Nonesuch Records. In the interview, Jackson discusses some of the things she's picked up over the years working with the likes of Jack White, who produced the new album, and Elvis Presley, whom she once dated and with whom she toured back in 1955 and '56, and about how she came to create her own signature style.
"In 1955, a woman baring her shoulders on stage was considered controversial, as was doing so while shaking it in a satin-fringe dress," writes Paste's Cory Albertson. "But that’s how an 18-year-old Wanda Jackson burst onto the music scene—'an atomic bomb in lipstick,' as Bob Dylan famously described her. Many consider her to be the first woman to write and perform rock ‘n’ roll."
Albertson goes on to say that, now, more than 55 years later, with the release of her new album, Jackson proves that her "searing rock sensibility and trademark primal growl stand little changed."
Read the interview and listen to Jackson's take on Bob Dylan's "Thunder on the Mountain" at pastemagazine.com. You can listen to the complete album streaming till release day at npr.org and watch the video for it here.
To pre-order the album on vinyl and CD, visit the Nonesuch Store, where the first 250 orders include a limited-edition poster autographed by Jackson and all orders include the complete album as audiophile-quality, 320 kbps MP3s available on release day.
Nonesuch Records is giving away a pair of tickets to each of the three sold-out record-release shows in New York (January 21) and Los Angeles (January 23 and 24), featuring Jack White and The Third Man House Band. To enter to win, simply e-mail info@nonesuch.com and let us know which show you'd like to attend. Winners will be announced on Friday.
**UPDATE (1/21, 1 PM ET): Congratulations to Mark Piro, Ghazal Hashemi, and William Kyle Wilkerson, winners of the Wanda Jackson ticket giveaway from Nonesuch, and thanks to all who entered!**
Jackson, White, and The Third Man House Band will perform on the Late Show with David Letterman tomorrow night and on Conan on Tuesday. She has just announced the addition of a free show of her own at the University of Central Oklahoma's Academy of Contemporary Music in her hometown of Oklahoma City for next Friday, January 28. For more information on Jackson's upcoming performances, visit nonesuch.com/on-tour.
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