Wanda Jackson Announces New Joan Jett-Generated Album, ‘Encore’

Wanda Jackson, “Queen of Rockabilly,” has announced a new album, Encore, owing Aug. 20, generated by Joan Jett and Jett’s possess longtime producer, Kenny Laguna. She also unveiled the album’s very first single, “It Keeps Correct On A Hurtin’.”

Jett tweeted on Friday about the LP, which attributes duets with Jett, Elle King, Angaleena Presley of Pistol Annies and Candi Carpenter.

“This venture is a single of the most own pieces I have ever unveiled,” Jackson wrote on her Fb webpage. “I hope y’all enjoy it as significantly as I do!

Jackson, an early pressure in rockabilly songs, rose to fame with a collection of hits between the late ’50s and early ’70s, which includes “Let us Have A Occasion,” “Tears Will Be the Chaser for Your Wine,” “A Lady Lives for Enjoy” and “Fancy Satin Pillows.” When her the moment-boyfriend Elvis Presley suggested she switch from place to rock, Jackson steamrolled into the scene, flaunting what some known as a “terrible” voice and turning out to be friends with singers like Jerry Lee Lewis.

“All people who cares about roots tunes and rock and roll reveres Wanda,” singer-songwriter Rosanne Funds reported in 2009 as she inducted Jackson into the Rock and Roll Corridor of Fame Early Influence category, “but in particular each young lady I know, musician or normally, worships her as the very first as the prototype, the to start with woman rockstar, as she so modestly acknowledges herself.”

You can listen to Jackson’s “It Retains