Wanda Jackson celebrates the release of her new Jack White-produced album, The Party Ain't Over, with a free show in her hometown of Oklahoma City tomorrow. She is featured on the latest edition of the New York Times Popcast. The Huffington Post calls her "every inch an Elvis," who, with the new album, is "cementing her status as royalty ... Wicked Good!" The Montreal Gazette gives the album four stars, calling the pairing of Jackson and White "an inspired one." ClashMusic exclaims: "The Queen of Rockabilly Wanda Jackson is back on her throne."
The celebrations continue for the release of Wanda Jackson's new Jack White-produced album, The Party Ain't Over, on Third Man / Nonesuch Records, when she gives a free concert for a hometown crowd at the University of Central Oklahoma's Academy of Contemporary Music in Oklahoma City tomorrow night. The concert will take place at the ACM@UCO Performance Lab in Bricktown. For more information on this and other upcoming performances on Jackson's tour schedule, visit nonesuch.com/on-tour.
To pick up a copy of The Party Ain't Over on vinyl and CD, head to the Nonesuch Store, where orders include high-quality, 320 kbps MP3s at checkout.
Jackson is featured on the latest edition of the New York Times Popcast, on which writer Melena Ryzik gives further insight into the Queen of Rock, the subject of Ryzik's article in this week's Sunday Times. You can listen to the episode at nytimes.com.
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The Huffington Post followed Jackson's sold-out concerts with White and The Third Man House Band at the El Rey in Los Angeles earlier this week with an article on the groundbreaking singer, calling her "every inch an Elvis," referencing the musical icon she once dated and who encouraged her to set her musical talents to rockabilly.
With The Party Ain't Over, Jackson "is making her case not for mere rock and roll relevance in 2011, she's cementing her status as royalty," exclaims S.X. Rosenstock in the article. "She's still got her trademark genius growl. A voice like no other."
Rosenstock goes on to say of the album:
White's iconoclastic arrangements for Jackson make Rockabilly or Country tunes sound authentic without being paralyzingly retro. Wanda Jackson's work provides an occasion to celebrate the vibrancy of Rockabilly/Psychobilly in all its forms from The Cramps and The Blasters and The Meteors through Demented Are Go and the Bad Boy/Pin-Up Girl subculture that keeps this music at the heart of their Saturday night stumblings in 2011. Wicked Good!
Read the complete article at huffingtonpost.com.
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The Montreal Gazette gives the album four stars. "The teaming of rockabilly queen Wanda Jackson, now 73, and magic hands-on producer Jack White is, not surprisingly, an inspired one," writes the paper's chief music critic, Bernard Perusse, who advises readers that the album "constantly threatens to turn into a party where someone calls the cops." Read the review at montrealgazette.com.
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Jackson was in London earlier this year. While there, she spoke with ClashMusic, which, calling her "bright, vivacious and still rocking at seventy-three," declares: "The Queen of Rockabilly Wanda Jackson is back on her throne." Read the interview at clashmusic.com.
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