Wanda Jackson gave a free hometown show in Oklahoma City on Friday. "The enduring power of the 73-year-old's voice was on full display," says the Oklahoman. "And yes, by all accounts, Wanda Jackson ripped it up. Ripped it to shreds." Clash Music has made her take on Dylan's "Thunder on the Mountain" today's Track of the Day, calling the album "a stunning return." PopMatters says Jackson "is positively incendiary." The Ottawa Citizen gives four-and-a-half stars to "this outstanding comeback." Jackson opens the latest episode of public radio's Dinner Party Download.
Wanda Jackson celebrated the release of her new, Jack White-produced album, The Party Ain't Over, with a free hometown show at the ACM@UCO in Oklahoma City Friday night described as "action-packed" by the Oklahoman's George Lang in a concert review. "The enduring power of the 73-year-old's voice was on full display," says Lang. "And yes, by all accounts, Wanda Jackson ripped it up. Ripped it to shreds." Read the review at newsok.com.
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Clash Music has made Jackson's take on Bob Dylan's "Thunder on the Mountain," from the new album, today's Track of the Day.
The Party Ain't Over "is a stunning return," says Clash's Robin Murray. "Comparisons to Loretta Lynn abound, but the contagious rockabilly of Wanda Jackson sits in a universe of its own."
You can read more and listen to the track at clashmusic.com. You can watch the video for the song at nonesuch.com/media and on the Nonesuch YouTube channel.
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PopMatters' Matthew Fiander says Jackson and White "sound very much in step with one another" on the new album. Fiander, in his review of The Party Ain't Over, says Jackson "is positively incendiary on these tracks. Her rangy voice—which can shift from gravelly howl to sultry coo and back again—commands nearly all of the attention on this record."
White's "sharp hooks create a compelling back and forth with Jackson’s vocals," Fiander writes. "The two aren’t at odds with each other, but rather, they’re communicating, one feeding off the vitality of the other."
Read the complete review at popmatters.com.
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The Ottawa Citizen gives The Party Ain't Over a whopping four-and-a-half stars.
"Jackson's feral purr leads the honky-tonk from the church to the brothel on this album of inspired covers," raves reviewer Heath McCoy. "Bob Dylan's hoarse growl has nothing on Wanda's when she delivers her pinch-punch to 'Thunder on the Mountain.' Johnny Cash, Jimmie Rodgers and Kitty Wells are all done perfect justice too, on this outstanding comeback."
Read the complete review at ottawacitizen.com.
Also in the Ottawa Citizen, Jackson spoke with writer Ben Kaplan about working with White on the new album. "What that young man did for me was push me into the 21st century," Jackson tells Kaplan, who insists that "Jackson herself, a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, is as interesting as she is influential, talented and humble."
Kaplan goes on to write of The Party Ain't Over, "Jackson's talents are spread out prodigiously over the 11 tracks that dip from gospel to country to rockabilly rock 'n' roll."
You can read that article as well at ottawacitizen.com.
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The Guardian has a feature on Jack White's frequent collaborations with women, saying of his work with Jackson: "As partnerships go, it's a beguiling and bold one." You can read the article at guardian.co.uk.
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Wanda Jackson opens the latest episode of the always entertaining Dinner Party Download from American Public Media with an icebreaker of a joke. You can hear it at publicradio.org.
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