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Track Listings
| 1. Shakin' All Over |
| 2. Rip It Up |
| 3. Busted |
| 4. Rum and Coca-Cola |
| 5. Thunder on the Mountain |
| 6. You Know That I'm No Good |
| 7. Like a Baby |
| 8. Nervous Breakdown |
| 9. Dust on the Bible |
| 10. Teach Me Tonight |
| 11. Blue Yodel #6 |
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If this Jack White-produced album does become an inescapable worldwide hit that bestows universal acclaim upon its creator, it won’t be before time.
Oklahoma-born Jackson, now 73, is one of rock’n’roll’s genuine pathfinders – discovered by Hank Thompson, urged towards the throaty rockabilly that eventually suited her best by an early admirer named Elvis Presley, very plausibly the first woman to record a rock’n’roll single (1958’s Let’s Have a Party).
It’s not difficult to imagine what would have drawn White to this project – his appreciation of rock’n’roll mythology is acute, as is his ambition vis-ˆ-vis the place in it he’d like to occupy himself. He also clearly has a knack for sparking renewed excitement in artists who probably imagined they’d seen and heard everything. Just as he encouraged Loretta Lynn to one of the finest albums of her life, in 2004’s Van Lear Rose, he may, at this late stage, have brought the very best out of Jackson.
The band helps, of course – White, Carl Broemel of My Morning Jacket, Jack Lawrence and Patrick Wheeler of The Raconteurs, Karen Elson, Jackson Smith and Ashley Monroe, all contributing to a sumptuous, brassy stew of country and blues. The track selection is also astute, selections from a century of popular song, including Johnny Kidd & The Pirates’ Shakin’ All Over, Bob Dylan’s Thunder on the Mountain, Hank Williams’ Dust on the Bible and Amy Winehouse’s You Know I'm No Good.
None of which would matter if age had wearied Jackson’s voice, but it doesn¹t sound like age has even been trying. Her trademark kittenish snarl is in devilish form on Eddie Cochran’s Nervous Breakdown, and she's never crooned anything so affectingly as she does Sammy Cahn and Gene De Paul’s Teach Me Tonight. This is a rich, warm, big-hearted and hilarious album.
--Andrew Mueller
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1-Shakin' All Over 2-Rip It Up 3-Busted 4-Rum And Coca Cola 5-Thunder On The Mountain 6-You Know I'm No Good 7-Like A Baby 8-Nervous Breakdown 9-Dust On The Bible 10-Teach Me Tonight 11-Blue Yodel #6 (2011/NONESUCH) 11 tracks (39:11) digipac with 8 page booklet. New studio album! produced by Jack White III (White Stripes). - also available on Vinyl (LP 525-263) -
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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Working with Hank Thompson as far back as 1954, Wanda Jackson, now 73, was one of the first female country stars, probably the first female rock 'n' roller and definitely the first female rockabilly performer. She toured with Elvis Presley and was blessed with a powerful voice that presaged Brenda Lee and Connie Francis.
Her success with rock 'n' roll and rockabilly numbers such as "Let's Have A Party" and Fujiyama Mama" was based on a simple formula - keep the band pared down, don't over produce and let the voice play.
Enter Jack White and determined to reprise "Van Lear Rose", his 2004 production with Loretta Lynn. But "The Party Ain't Over" is an album of two parts. As with her 50s and 60s material, Wanda works best when the production is simple. Her version of the Jimmy Rodgers classic "Blue Yodel #6" is a smouldering interpretation with a simple acoustic guitar accompaniment. "Teach Me Tonight" is a powerful version of the Sammy Cahn/Gene de Paul classic while the country standard "Dust On The Bible" is a jump blues with horns and brass that suit Wanda's voice.
So, on one level the album works but, too often, Jack White's vision is intrusive. The Harlan Howard masterpiece "Busted" should work but it is punctuated by explosive big band sounds that deny it the emotional depth that the song demands, a la Ray Charles or Johnny Cash.
On her version of the Amy Winehouse song, "You Know I'm No Good" she struggles to rise above the heavy production. Amy wins, I'm afraid. "Like A Baby" almost gets there but the brass overwhelms and with classics such as "Rip It Up" and "Shakin' All Over" Wanda struggles against Jack's vision of retro rock 'n' roll, all sound but no subtlety.
It's not a bad album by any stretch and I loved her version of Dylan's "Thunder On The Mountain", brass and all! But for me, the rule must be - keep the production simple and let the voice play.
If I could I would give the album 3 1/2 stars because of my reservations over the production but Wanda's contribution can't be faulted so four stars rather than three.
Her success with rock 'n' roll and rockabilly numbers such as "Let's Have A Party" and Fujiyama Mama" was based on a simple formula - keep the band pared down, don't over produce and let the voice play.
Enter Jack White and determined to reprise "Van Lear Rose", his 2004 production with Loretta Lynn. But "The Party Ain't Over" is an album of two parts. As with her 50s and 60s material, Wanda works best when the production is simple. Her version of the Jimmy Rodgers classic "Blue Yodel #6" is a smouldering interpretation with a simple acoustic guitar accompaniment. "Teach Me Tonight" is a powerful version of the Sammy Cahn/Gene de Paul classic while the country standard "Dust On The Bible" is a jump blues with horns and brass that suit Wanda's voice.
So, on one level the album works but, too often, Jack White's vision is intrusive. The Harlan Howard masterpiece "Busted" should work but it is punctuated by explosive big band sounds that deny it the emotional depth that the song demands, a la Ray Charles or Johnny Cash.
On her version of the Amy Winehouse song, "You Know I'm No Good" she struggles to rise above the heavy production. Amy wins, I'm afraid. "Like A Baby" almost gets there but the brass overwhelms and with classics such as "Rip It Up" and "Shakin' All Over" Wanda struggles against Jack's vision of retro rock 'n' roll, all sound but no subtlety.
It's not a bad album by any stretch and I loved her version of Dylan's "Thunder On The Mountain", brass and all! But for me, the rule must be - keep the production simple and let the voice play.
If I could I would give the album 3 1/2 stars because of my reservations over the production but Wanda's contribution can't be faulted so four stars rather than three.
5 of 8 people found the following review helpful
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First of all let me say that I have been an ardent fan of Wanda Jackson since 1964, and I have 8 of her original LP's, which I have since put onto CD's. I also have a few of her CD releases.I have also seen her perform live in the early 1980's at the (then) Cornwall Coliseum. Therefore I am more than familiar with the way she should sound ! However, on this CD her voice was drowned out by the music, and also there was, in most cases, more music than there was actual singing. Perhaps this was done on purpose, because after all she was in her late sixties when this CD was recorded. One would not expect her voice to be as good as it was back in the 1960's and 1970's. This fact can also be heard if one watches some of her recent performances on 'YouTube'.All in all this CD does not do her justice in any way.
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75 of 79 people found the following review helpful
What did you expect?
4 Feb 2011
Format:Audio CD
I just need to spit a little about this record. You'll see a reviews here complaining about Jack White's production, and I'll go as far to say that there's a touch of "horn porn" going on on this record. The arrangements on the horns are a little raucous, regardless of the songs vibe. But, as far as hearing complaints about the mix of Wanda's vocals- they're recorded within the spirit of the songs. But what really got my goat was reading some reviews ripped off from Sound Opinions comparing the production to Jack White pretending to be Phil Spector. You know who you are. Really? Isn't it bad enough Jim Derogatis doesn't know what he's talking about, now I see folks emulating his ignorance on Amazon reviews? Maybe it's just coincidence, and if it is and TWO people in the world think this record sounds anything like Phil Spector's work, I apologize for comparing an innocent bystander to the "frozen-in-pubescence-holier-than-thou-fatboy-snobbery of Derogatis.... *ahem* I digress.
This album is an attempt to catch the spirit of a woman's music who had been out of the limelight for years. I think it's absolutely great a 73 year old woman can make an Amy Winehouse song feel sexier. When I first heard "Shakin' all Over" on the radio, I was literally fired up! I had no idea who Wanda Jackson was, I had no idea she was in her golden years, and I had no idea Jack White had anything to do with it, and you know what? I wanted to see the dirty pin-up girl screaming out those vocals. I was thinking something like the girl from the Yeah Yeah Yeahs hot; grungy, unhinged, all-woman kind of hot. And she actually looks like an elderly waitress from Houston! I mean, that alone is enough to listen to this record! This lady still has it!
Instead of making the record anybody else would have made, with guest appearances from old timers and taking her greatest hits from her storied career and making a nostalgic piece for all of those who listened to Wanda Jackson back in the day, Mr White made an album from scratch. Something that has energy and spitfire and the spark of creativity. It's a record the whole band could go on the road with and have a blast playing out every night. Isn't that what it's all about? This record is different, sure, but it's really a lot of fun! Most importantly, it has brought Wanda Jackson to my attention, a thirty-something guy who would have never heard of her otherwise, and the first thing I did after listening to this record was go and look at Wanda's back catalogue.
So now, when I hear complaining about Jack White not being a good producer, I want to scream. You think Rick Rubin could have done this job? Joe Chicarelli? Phil Spector?!? Who? Maybe if someone had laid some nice electro-pop synth back there it would be "cutting edge"? Maybe if it was just microphone and her singing her old ballads mournfully it would be safer than a septuagenarian shaking her pelvis to some raunchy backbeats and champagne-room horn blasts. This record is good. Buy it now and listen to it loud in the car when summer finally comes. It'll be perfect. Promise.
This album is an attempt to catch the spirit of a woman's music who had been out of the limelight for years. I think it's absolutely great a 73 year old woman can make an Amy Winehouse song feel sexier. When I first heard "Shakin' all Over" on the radio, I was literally fired up! I had no idea who Wanda Jackson was, I had no idea she was in her golden years, and I had no idea Jack White had anything to do with it, and you know what? I wanted to see the dirty pin-up girl screaming out those vocals. I was thinking something like the girl from the Yeah Yeah Yeahs hot; grungy, unhinged, all-woman kind of hot. And she actually looks like an elderly waitress from Houston! I mean, that alone is enough to listen to this record! This lady still has it!
Instead of making the record anybody else would have made, with guest appearances from old timers and taking her greatest hits from her storied career and making a nostalgic piece for all of those who listened to Wanda Jackson back in the day, Mr White made an album from scratch. Something that has energy and spitfire and the spark of creativity. It's a record the whole band could go on the road with and have a blast playing out every night. Isn't that what it's all about? This record is different, sure, but it's really a lot of fun! Most importantly, it has brought Wanda Jackson to my attention, a thirty-something guy who would have never heard of her otherwise, and the first thing I did after listening to this record was go and look at Wanda's back catalogue.
So now, when I hear complaining about Jack White not being a good producer, I want to scream. You think Rick Rubin could have done this job? Joe Chicarelli? Phil Spector?!? Who? Maybe if someone had laid some nice electro-pop synth back there it would be "cutting edge"? Maybe if it was just microphone and her singing her old ballads mournfully it would be safer than a septuagenarian shaking her pelvis to some raunchy backbeats and champagne-room horn blasts. This record is good. Buy it now and listen to it loud in the car when summer finally comes. It'll be perfect. Promise.
25 of 29 people found the following review helpful
The 8th Wanda of the World!!!
26 Jan 2011
Format:Audio CD
If I ran into producer Jack White I'd probably have to restrain myself from giving him a powerful bear hug for this project!!
Wanda Jackson may indeed be (a deserving) R&R Hall of Fame inductee, but,let's face it, she's still a far undervalued commodity and artist as far as the general public is concerned. Here,however, an obviously caring and immensely talented fan has not only solidly reconnected her with ALL of her roots, but he's coaxed her undiminished power to near full throttle and backed her with a band to match.
Wanda was far from a one trick pony; she could rock like the King, country like Dolly, and praise the Lord like Amy Grant. White's A&R reminds us of all of that, and Wanda and the guys blow the roof off the widely varied & well chosen material.
This is no novelty folks!! "Respect and Honor Your Elders" is an important maxim...and it's mighty clear it's one the amazing Jack White lives by.
Wanda Jackson may indeed be (a deserving) R&R Hall of Fame inductee, but,let's face it, she's still a far undervalued commodity and artist as far as the general public is concerned. Here,however, an obviously caring and immensely talented fan has not only solidly reconnected her with ALL of her roots, but he's coaxed her undiminished power to near full throttle and backed her with a band to match.
Wanda was far from a one trick pony; she could rock like the King, country like Dolly, and praise the Lord like Amy Grant. White's A&R reminds us of all of that, and Wanda and the guys blow the roof off the widely varied & well chosen material.
This is no novelty folks!! "Respect and Honor Your Elders" is an important maxim...and it's mighty clear it's one the amazing Jack White lives by.
14 of 16 people found the following review helpful
this party aint over yet, not for wanda...
27 Jan 2011
i have to say, i love this cd, jack white did a wonderful job on it, the only song i would have loved to hear on here was Fujiyama Mama....Its fun and in a strange way has a wild sound. you go wanda, at 73, you still got it going on. rock on wanda...I want more. and just to say, I love the version of rum and coca-cola. and would would have loved to hear a new version of riot in cell block number 9#, maybe next cd...yes jack??????
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