Rockabilly Queen

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LP/CD Deluxe limited edition coloured vinyl and cd package. Liner notes by rock n roll author Nina Antonia. Features Ten Singles and the best known of all Wanda s songs Funnel of Love. All songs remastered Pioneering exemplar of rousing rockabilly, it's no wonder Wanda Jackson was cited as an influence by The 's Ivy Rorschach. Though Jackson made her debut as a country artiste, it was Elvis Presley, whom she briefly dated that sparked Wanda's rock n' roll flame. Presley gave her both a diamond studded ring and creative encouragement as Jackson told journalist Marc Myers... 'He (Presley) gave me what I needed, the courage to try his style. So I began singing his way freer, with more teenage attitude and that vocal hiccup.' Resplendent in high heels, drop earrings and fringed dresses designed by her mamma, Jackson brought an unprecedented glamour to the Rockabilly stage that accented the often lively lyrical contents of her best known numbers; Pass the dynamite, Molly she purrs on a femme fuelled version of Riot in Cell Block Number 9. Despite Capitol Records producer Ken Nelson initially passing on Wanda because Girls Don't Sell Records Jackson notched up a string of hits in the US, from the mid-1950's onwards. Delivered in a high-octane husk, her tunes are peppered with explosive references and none more so than on Fujiyama Mama in which she trills; I drink a quart of sake smoke dynamite/I chase it with tobaccy and then shoot out the light. Needless to say, it reached number one in Japan. Meanwhile, Hot Dog! That Made Him Mad reveals Jackson taunting a lacklustre beau by dating his best friend. A multi-talented musician, WJ has a deft, often garrulous guitar technique that did the talking when she stopped singing but the number that plucked Ivy Rorschach's strings was the mock- exotica of Funnel of Love